Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

[Barry]

Rare Metrosound electrostatic hybrid speakers. Seller doesn't know what they are, the tweeter was a flat electrostatic driver. There was a larger version too as I recall, I wonder if these actually work?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124723821...00%7C7000%7C10

The seller must have changed the description, as there is no mention of Metrosound or electrostatic. The heading is now: "vintage type speakers goodmans elac", so I presume the drive units are by Goodmans and Elac.

[karma67]

isn't that because,as geoff said he doesn't know what they are?

[Barry]

isn't that because,as geoff said he doesn't know what they are?

I wouldn't know.

[Barry]

The speaker for sale looks very similar to the Metrosound Duplex 15:

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though the one for sale looks shorter in height. I would have thought there would be a Metrosound label on the rear if it was a genuine Duplex.

[walpurgis]

[walpurgis]

Maybe the original electrostatic tweeter was problematic and an owner fitted the Elac unit as a replacement.

[Edward]

I thought electrostatic speakers required mains voltage? The ebay item does not appear to have mains input.

[Macca]

I thought electrostatic speakers required mains voltage? The ebay item does not appear to have mains input.

They do and it's noted in that old advert Geoff posted. I didn't see any mains input in the pics either but they don't cover every inch of the speaker even though there's loads of them.

They do seem to be a close match to the one in the Metrosound advert though. I'd never heard of them and there's not much on the web. There's a company called Metrosound doing in car audio, I wonder if it is the same firm?

[walpurgis]

I thought electrostatic speakers required mains voltage? The ebay item does not appear to have mains input.

There have been self-energising electrostatic headphones, but I'd think it unlikely for speakers.

Perhaps somebody bought a job lot of left over Metrosound cabinets and bunged their own choice of drivers in. Hard to guess fifty years on.

[Lawrence001]

I thought electrostatic speakers required mains voltage? The ebay item does not appear to have mains input.

That unused hole on the back was probably once where the power cable went.