Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers? This came up
in another thread, but a Google search dredged up too much crap for me
to deal with, and besides, I got sidetracked reading about the dubious
wonders of flame loudspeakers ...

Even links to how electrostatics work would be appreciated; I'm pretty
ignorant on the subject. (Well, OK, I know the theoretical basis: a
diaphragm between two charged poles, or maybe the diaphragm is charged
too.) I know it involves high voltages and all. Just have never seen the
innards of one, nor a diagram explaining how they work.


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dans le baquet d'acide.

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"France recommends dissolving Scientologists"

You can look around on in The Planar Speaker Asylum (from here)

http://www.audioasylum.com/

and here

http://www.integracoustics.com/MUG/M...aks/index.html


Frank /~ http://newmex.com/f10
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On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:06:25 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers? This came up
in another thread, but a Google search dredged up too much crap for me
to deal with, and besides, I got sidetracked reading about the dubious
wonders of flame loudspeakers ...

Even links to how electrostatics work would be appreciated; I'm pretty
ignorant on the subject. (Well, OK, I know the theoretical basis: a
diaphragm between two charged poles, or maybe the diaphragm is charged
too.) I know it involves high voltages and all. Just have never seen the
innards of one, nor a diagram explaining how they work.

On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:06:25 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers? This came up
in another thread, but a Google search dredged up too much crap for me
to deal with, and besides, I got sidetracked reading about the dubious
wonders of flame loudspeakers ...

Even links to how electrostatics work would be appreciated; I'm pretty
ignorant on the subject. (Well, OK, I know the theoretical basis: a
diaphragm between two charged poles, or maybe the diaphragm is charged
too.) I know it involves high voltages and all. Just have never seen the
innards of one, nor a diagram explaining how they work.

There are books on speaker design such as Martin Colloms' High
Performance Loudspeakers which describe the principles and design.
For DIY, try www.audioxpress.com as they have published construction
articles in the past and have a rich archive of info.

Kal

On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:06:25 -0700, David Nebenzahl wrote:

Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers? This came up
in another thread, but a Google search dredged up too much crap for me
to deal with, and besides, I got sidetracked reading about the dubious
wonders of flame loudspeakers ...


Google is really too easy... ;-)
Searching for "making electrostatic speakers" - page 2

http://esl.rehorst.com/how_to_esl.htm



Even links to how electrostatics work would be appreciated; I'm pretty
ignorant on the subject. (Well, OK, I know the theoretical basis: a
diaphragm between two charged poles, or maybe the diaphragm is charged
too.) I know it involves high voltages and all. Just have never seen the
innards of one, nor a diagram explaining how they work.

Even easier to find - page 1

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/speaker11.htm

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Web: http://www.nascom.info & http://mixpix.batcave.net

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David Nebenzahl wrote:

Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers? This came up
in another thread, but a Google search dredged up too much crap for me
to deal with, and besides, I got sidetracked reading about the dubious
wonders of flame loudspeakers ...

Even links to how electrostatics work would be appreciated; I'm pretty
ignorant on the subject. (Well, OK, I know the theoretical basis: a
diaphragm between two charged poles, or maybe the diaphragm is charged
too.) I know it involves high voltages and all. Just have never seen the
innards of one, nor a diagram explaining how they work.

diyaudio.com has a small following as well IIRC.

--
Cyrus

*coughcasaucedoprodigynetcough*

David Nebenzahl wrote in news:4464cdd8$0$3690
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Anyone have any links to homemade electrostatic speakers?

http://esl.rehorst.com/
http://members.tripod.com/~mdarling/

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Murray Peterson