In article <bjcc1fM6STTKFw75@soft255.demon.co.uk>, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:
> I remember when the Quad electrostatic 65s finally came out (in the
> 1970s, despite the name, which was based on when they started to design
> them), there was much coverage that they sounded flat and lifeless; it
> took a while for the penny to drop, as you describe.

I remember that too. Funnily there wasn't the same criticism of the
earlier ones. They looked like electric fires but didn't sound like
loudspeakers at all - you'd just hear musical instruments the way they
really sounded. Maybe when they were made there was less electronically
generated music around to poison the expectations of listeners.

Rod.
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