Hello from France

lagloriet · 6th August 2008, 09:22 PM

I'm very pleased to introduce myself in the community. My interest for audio came first from my interest for music 40 years ago when I bought step by step my first system : Hitone H300 amplifier (7591As) which was called here "the French Mcintosh", Garrard 401 with SME. My first loudspeakers were just for listening. Several years after I could buy what then pleased me: one pair of ESS Tower with the great Heil. I never had one problem of reliability with the Heil ribbons which never broke.
I sold recently these ESSs because I wanted to improve the low part of the spectrum. I stuck to the Heils which I like very much and made a new TQWT for a 315mm boomer (sens. above 98dB/W/M) build like a tank from Michel Fertin (France). My listening consists basically in LPs (ca 25,000) played on a Micro-Seiki RY5000 with 3 arms/cartridges : one for the monos, one for the SH not so good stereos, and the last for the cream of my LPs : some french Eratos, Decca from UK, Living Stereo from UK, Philips from Holland.
I read with interest the thread concerning the new ESS/Heil : what a pity that sensitivity is so low !

Cal Weldon · 7th August 2008, 12:45 AM

Hello and welcome to the forums.

c2cthomas · 7th August 2008, 02:07 AM

Bonjour' lagloriet and Welcome to diyAudio

I'm using the Great Heils (AMT1's) and enjoy them very much. I once lived in Sacramento California and knew a couple of people that worked over at ESS so I had an early introduction to this speaker and have always loved the AMT 1's. I also got away from using the ESS speaker cabinets - but that is another story for another time. Do you have any photo's of your speakers? I always enjoy seeing what others have done to improve on the use of this speaker.

westendguy · 7th August 2008, 11:12 AM

sounds interesting...I love France! I was in Paris last summer.

6th August 2008, 09:22 PM	#1
lagloriet diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2008	Hello from France I'm very pleased to introduce myself in the community. My interest for audio came first from my interest for music 40 years ago when I bought step by step my first system : Hitone H300 amplifier (7591As) which was called here "the French Mcintosh", Garrard 401 with SME. My first loudspeakers were just for listening. Several years after I could buy what then pleased me: one pair of ESS Tower with the great Heil. I never had one problem of reliability with the Heil ribbons which never broke. I sold recently these ESSs because I wanted to improve the low part of the spectrum. I stuck to the Heils which I like very much and made a new TQWT for a 315mm boomer (sens. above 98dB/W/M) build like a tank from Michel Fertin (France). My listening consists basically in LPs (ca 25,000) played on a Micro-Seiki RY5000 with 3 arms/cartridges : one for the monos, one for the SH not so good stereos, and the last for the cream of my LPs : some french Eratos, Decca from UK, Living Stereo from UK, Philips from Holland. I read with interest the thread concerning the new ESS/Heil : what a pity that sensitivity is so low !

7th August 2008, 12:45 AM	#2
Cal Weldon diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: British Columbia	Hello and welcome to the forums. __________________ Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks and I learned much from both of their styles. (JB)

7th August 2008, 02:07 AM	#3
c2cthomas diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Near "Music City" (Nashville Tennessee)	Bonjour' lagloriet and Welcome to diyAudio I'm using the Great Heils (AMT1's) and enjoy them very much. I once lived in Sacramento California and knew a couple of people that worked over at ESS so I had an early introduction to this speaker and have always loved the AMT 1's. I also got away from using the ESS speaker cabinets - but that is another story for another time. Do you have any photo's of your speakers? I always enjoy seeing what others have done to improve on the use of this speaker. __________________ "You can't always get what you want" K. Richards/M. Jagger *** "Next time I will know some things better" Zen Mod

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westendguy diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2008	sounds interesting...I love France! I was in Paris last summer.

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