This system is set up in the family room of an old century stone home[circa 1850]The original servo otl'amplifiers that supply the panels have been completely redone with top shelf quality passive parts, and selected for audio circuits.Every resistor,capacitor,tube socket, and contact from the input to the output has been updated.These amps are used to power my 2+2's or my custom 3 panels.The custom frames for the 3 panels were made from solid oak and raise the panel to the optimum 14"'s from the floor and provide the structural rigidity that all e-stats need to sound their best.Most elactrostatics love tubes,OTL tube amps even more.These highly modified servo amps bettered the Atma-shere 2.2 mk2's on the acoustat!Mind you I could only run the atmas through the medallion transformers for comparison.Any one owning acoustat should seek out these old x-servos and update them.These are truly world class andwill rival most any e-stat out there regardless of price.
Good point. I now have Spectra 66's, which image better close in than the 2+2's. Nonetheless, I feel like they would really come into their own in a very large room with a 12' - 16' ceiling.
Hello Klinerm. I suppose it would depend on the size of your room and speaker placement. In my honest opinion....If your listening seat[s] can be 10 fee or more from the speakers,the 2+2 win hands down. Nearfield listening,the nod would go to the 3's.Cheers
Ecclectique, greetings from a 20+ year Acoustat fan.
You are in a position to do the A/B comparison I always wanted to, but never did. I used to have Acoustat Monitor 3's, which I believe have the same panel angulation as your X's (unlike the later Model 3's, which looked flat). They imaged incredibly well. When they broke, I didn't yet know where to get them fixed, so I gave them to a kid and got a pair of 2+2's. I never thought the 2+2's imaged as well as those Monitor 3's, even though they were driven with vastly superior electronics, had Medallion transformers, etc. I theorized that due to the angulation, only one panel from the Monitor 3's actually delivered significant highs / midrange to the listener at a time, thus acting like a line-source & delivering better imaging.
