Putting Curtains in the Man-Cave

In an earlier post, I went on and on and on (and on)  about the tremendous crush I have on the Quad ESL.  I droned on about the history of this hard-to-live-with but highly regarded speaker.  I even went so far as outlining all of its faults and foibles, and how I was able to look past them in my mental fantasy of them and still like the idea of the speaker. Quad c1960 ... note the lack of man-cave And I realized like a stormy relationship, it might never work.  And it might never be compatible with our idea that every family member should be part of the fun given it's narrow "sweet spot*" and fragility. I would love to take a test drive someday of the originals, but I think in my heart of hearts, the later version would be the easier one to live with ... *The so-called sweet spot is the small place, usually making an equilateral triangle with the speakers where you get the best sounding tonal balance and stereo effects.  In some speakers it is large, ...

Psst ... I have a problem .  I suffer from a condition called audiophilia nervosa which has me checking out various and assorted gear, and dreaming.  As an engineer, though, it just can't be "pretty" it has to be technologically interesting in some way to catch my eye.  It also has to be unusual in some way.  My budget rarely allows me to indulge in them, but I end up annoying people around me playing "what if"  Kathy tells me this is 100% accurate - because she regularly gets annoyed by this.  And she is refusing to a comment directly since it just might feed this a bit too much. So, here goes with one that has piqued my interest: The Quad ESL The Quad ESL was the first electrostatic speaker commercially produced (the technology was a lab curiosity since about 1930).  Read about the general principles here , and about the ESL itself here . Released in 1957, it was a mono speaker made for the mono era.  It was difficult to drive ...