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Did you ever hear the LFT-8?

Don't ask, I have not heard your speaker. I have heard plenty of other speakers including some highly regarded electrostatics and have Stax headphone for myself. I think I've heard good and great reproduction.

I'm sure your speaker sounds great. I'm also sure one could build as good, or superior, speaker at a lower price using ET technology. Again, good engineering does not need to be expensive.

Your respone would be resonable without the sandbox comment. Too bad ET's sandbox is similar looking and built for 1/10 the price. How many people need to spend 10 times more just to ruin their hearing?

Additionally you jumped into the high end arena, with great claims, and now disparaging other well regardred designs. Prepare to additionally defend yourself.


1) The LFT is mostly steel, and the wood portions are higly braced, and can claim essentailly non-resonante also. Yours is an unfair comment aimed at ET. ET's Mid panel is known to resonate at 100HZ and the unit is highly engineered to control that resonance. Your style of ribbon is known for some nasty resonances that need to be controlled with nasty crossover design. Care to comment on that? I am a polymer engineer by profession, and while Corian is a adequate choice, it is not where near some of the better non-resonant polymer based compositions available. Go rap on your kitchen counter.

2) I believe your bass is likely to be good. Again, for not needing a box why so expensive? What about side cancellation? From an engineering perspective flat bass cones are a gimic.

3) LFT-8 bass would be better with more money spent for a line source array. As it is, not bad.

4&5) If you said 2 way design with 1st order crossover I would be impressed. Most other crossover designs compromise the music in my opionion and many others. What frequency do those huge bass drivers cross over at?

6) ET has it's own highly regarded, patented, high end, self produced connector machined from tellurium copper bar stock called the Edison Music Post. My unit is wired with Cardas. Very unfair comment.

7) ET is 24HZ to 20KHZ. No too shabby given 1/10 the price.

8) Smog? Do you know the degradation rates of mylar exposed to smog? Please let me know so I can tell all my polymer scientist buddies we have something new to worry about! Do you know the equilibrium mositure content of PET (Mylar) resin vs Kapton and how that effects the response of the driver? Same goes for the glues used. These claims are overplayed. How does the driving force of your planar driver compair with the ET's per area, per unit mass. (Please be sure to add in the weight of the glue and conductors.) Think film thickness is the only thing that matters? Care to addres the wild techniques used in your ribbon to allow it to reach those high frequencies without beaming and distorting?

I hope you make a lot of money as I run my own business also. I am careful about my claims for obvious reasons.

We know our stuff here. Play nice in our sand box.

Tom C




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