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  1. Brandon Hartwick

    Custom ESL using quest panels

    Thank you! I expect somewhere around 200lb each fully assembled. One person can move around the individual components.
  2. Brandon Hartwick

    Custom ESL using quest panels

    Not a big update, but I was at my shop this morning and got both power supplies roughly assembled.
  3. Brandon Hartwick

    Stream audio & video to another room?

    Actually, I have a 6900XT from AMD so that would likely be a problem.
  4. Brandon Hartwick

    Stream audio & video to another room?

    Hey guys I have a very fast PC in my main living space I use for gaming and YouTube. The video is passed via HDMI from my video card to the TV and the audio is handled via optical with a seperate DAC. I am looking for a way to wirelessly send the audio and video signal to the 65" TV in my...
  5. Brandon Hartwick

    3D printed speaker enclosures

    Came across this super interesting video where they're building small tower speakers with some very interesting 3D printed enclosures. I find it very cool seeing modern fabrication methods being applied to speakers. The video is well worth the watch.
  6. Brandon Hartwick

    I’m back!

    Well apparently they just let anybody in here 😉 One of these days I'll finish my speakers with all those parts I got off you.
  7. Brandon Hartwick

    New Member Seeking Opinions/Sanity Checks Regarding Sequel II to ESL15a Upgrade

    Sounds like something going to the panel is losing connection intermittently, try knocking on the panel and see if that causes the dropouts. Even if the power cord was somehow faulty it wouldn't cause dropouts in the panel. You can run the speakers unplugged for several minutes. Try another...
  8. Brandon Hartwick

    Need answer to simple question.

    Personally I use the Iso-Quad RCA cables from these guys, they look cool, are well built and they're not super expensive. The husband and wife owners are also super nice people. Unfortunately I think the descriptions of some of the products are nuts lol...
  9. Brandon Hartwick

    Need answer to simple question.

    I rank arrows on cables right up there with those "audiophile" network switches where they glue crystals on top of the chipset and claim it's something super special and secret underneath.
  10. Brandon Hartwick

    Need answer to simple question.

    I wasn't aware they made directional copper, must be some new science used nowhere else except audio 🤣.
  11. Brandon Hartwick

    Bi-Amp reQuest with class D amplifiers (Crown)?

    Few options do so what you want I didn't realize the Classe amp you have is 6 channels. You could easily just add a processor between your amp and pre amp and whatever you want with the passive crossovers. You could go active on everything, or just the bass, you'd still have enough outputs to...
  12. Brandon Hartwick

    Bi-Amp reQuest with class D amplifiers (Crown)?

    As others have stated, I personally wouldn't go with a class D pro audio amp on the panels, maybe if it's rated down to 2 ohm. Mini DSP and Dayton both make external crossover/DSP units if you wanted to go that route instead. I personally wouldn't replace the panels unless there's something...
  13. Brandon Hartwick

    A Sincere From My Heart Question Regarding the Future of ML ESL

    Martin Logan probably sells the motion series 10:1 compared to anything from the ESL line. Big electrostatic speakers are pretty much a pure luxury item these days when modern soundbars will do 99% of what most average people need.
  14. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    - the seperate amp with crossover is ONLY for the woofer, the panel runs off the original passive crossover - the crossover frequency can usually be found in the owners manual, or through a little online research - REW is not needed or required You have Prodigys with 2 woofers per speaker so...
  15. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    My advice Buy a used Crown, because it's by far the cheapest way to fix this speaker. Maybe you'll hate it and your suspicions were right all along. Put the amp up for sale the next day and you'll get what you paid (maybe more).
  16. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    If all you want to do is power the original woofers with a seperate amp with active Xover getting the sound dialed in is much easier than it is if you replace the original woofers with something else. The original woofers will be matched to the panel from factory so you know they're going to...
  17. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    Because the factory crossover is extremely rudimentary and has a very shallow slope that allows much overlap between the panel and the woofer. You need to keep in mind that a cone woofer behaves very different from an ESL panel and getting them to properly mesh together isn't easy to do with...
  18. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    I don't think anyone's arguing that you can't do better than a PA amp, but it's definitely the easiest, most compact and cost effective solution. New PA amps also sound fantastic. The only way I can see anyone surpassing this is to go with an external processor and a pair of power amps. But...
  19. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    It's not a matter of having an amplifier capable of driving the entire speaker, it's the effects the passive crossover has on the interaction between the panel and woofer. Unloading the panel amp from the woofer is just a bonus. Your mind is made up and I'm not going to try and change it. We...
  20. Brandon Hartwick

    ReQuest Melted Crossover Inductor

    Using this logic all new Martin Logan speakers should sound worse than the old passive models. This isn't the case though because the panel and woofer both present totally different loads to the amplifier, when you seperate them your power amp will only see the capacitive load of the panel and...
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