SE Tube amps with electrostats?

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Hi,

I don´t see any reason why this should be so!
They are terribly inefficient, so You´d be generating loads of heat and it´ll be not easy to find good tubes, but apart from that, there should be not much of a prob.
Had one running (it was even a SE Triode) with the incredible KR845 running on 2kV plate voltage and it drove up to 1nF load without probs.

jauu
Calvin
 
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I ran a pair of 811SET (IIRC) monoblocks on a set of double stacked Quad panels for awhile. About 20WPC. Plenty of power. But I don't think they liked the load much. Very bright and forward sounding. But waaaay better than the Quad 405 that was there before. 😉

Ended up with 20WPC Class-A solid state.

All amps are different.
 
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So are you planning on building an amp where you don't go to an 8 ohm apperant load between the amp and ESL? I'm starting to read on ESLs after making my first tube amp from scratch about a year ago. I want to run a low current, high voltage setup. Since tubes expect a roughly 5kOhm load, ESLs seem like a good match.
 
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I_Forgot said:
The idea of using a SET amp to drive an ESL baffles me as much as the guys who want to break an ESL up into 3 or 4 separate drivers and make a crossover to drive them. Why would you want to drive a speaker as nearly perfect as an ESL with a high distortion amp? What's the point of using an ESL?

I_F
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Its because tube amplifiers produce light 🙂
 
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Originally posted by I_Forgot
The idea of using a SET amp to drive an ESL baffles me as much as the guys who want to break an ESL up into 3 or 4 separate drivers and make a crossover to drive them. Why would you want to drive a speaker as nearly perfect as an ESL with a high distortion amp? What's the point of using an ESL?
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Because he can?😉

Cheers
 
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