What is the best pair of electrostats under $15?
Aug 4, 2007 at 8:37 AM Post #16 of 44
It is quite easy to get a working set for 15$ if you are patient. The ESP6's go for 25$ all the time and even less and they are pretty good even though they weigh nearly a kilo...
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You can always rip out the drivers and electronics and mount the drivers in some dynamic housing and relocate the electronics to a separate box.

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Simple answer? Make your own.

Plastic bags, pencil, offcuts of metal mesh, the cheapest pot of epoxy you can find, some thin cardboard, and cheap high voltage transistors from an electronics store.

Knock yourself out, hopefully not literally.



Better yet use some packaging film as florists and etc. use since it is thick mylar and use something acrylic based for the coating. The stators can be a copper covered pcb board cut to size and the stators some plastic your glue sticks to. The transformers can be some 230v/10v toroids used the wrong way around and the bias supply is aonly a handful of diodes and caps.
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 8:39 AM Post #17 of 44
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Better yet use some packaging film as florists and etc. use since it is thick mylar and use something acrylic based for the coating. The stators can be a copper covered pcb board cut to size and the stators some plastic your glue sticks to. The transformers can be some 230v/10v toroids used the wrong way around and the bias supply is aonly a handful of diodes and caps.


OOOO!

Sounds painful!
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 8:41 AM Post #18 of 44
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Is there even one and a reasonably good-sounding one at that price?


Yes, somebody here once reported buying an HE90 at a junkyard for $15.
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 9:14 AM Post #20 of 44
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It is but when you have been zapped enough times by your phones you stop noticing it...


Yeah, a few 1500V jolts will stop you noticing just about anything.
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 9:20 AM Post #21 of 44
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Yeah, a few 1500V jolts will stop you noticing just about anything.


Thank you, can I have another?
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 9:27 AM Post #23 of 44
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Yeah, a few 1500V jolts will stop you noticing just about anything.


No 1500v jolts yet but many of the low bias phones under repair have given me shocks. It could be that I'm just so used to burn myself that it doesn't bother me anymore.
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 9:43 AM Post #24 of 44
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Does anybody know if they still have that special on the Wilson Audio Grand SLAMMs for $25 a pair down at best buy?


No but you could get a pair of Insignias for less than $80.
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Aug 4, 2007 at 9:48 AM Post #25 of 44
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No 1500v jolts yet but many of the low bias phones under repair have given me shocks. It could be that I'm just so used to burn myself that it doesn't bother me anymore.


I've been zapped by pro bias ones too. As long as it's not across the heart, right?
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Aug 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM Post #27 of 44
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Yup, that wouldn't end well. I'm more concerned about the current any way...


Current? You mean there's an electrocution in progress?!
 
Aug 4, 2007 at 10:23 AM Post #30 of 44
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wasn't there a diy electrostat on headwise


There's several step by step guides on the net.
 

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