SPEAKERS E.S.B. 40LD
AUDIO SPEAKERS - E.S.B. 40 LD
AUDIO SPEAKERS - E.S.B. 40 LD Made in Italy Another masterpiece of Hi-Fi speakers.
The ESB 40 LD Series has been and still is one of the highest achievements in the field of music playback. It was a line of speakers designed and built with the sole objective of achieving the highest quality of listening, of any genre, and in any environment. The sound characteristics are exceptional, linked to natural timbre, enormous dynamic capacity, and high efficiency. But success must be considered in the project, he sees in his heart the DSR (read more about DSR), issue to "spread spectrum", a revolutionary technique, developed entirely by the ESB research center and the work of Eng. Renato Giussani. These incredible speakers finally allow one to recreate in great detail the image of the stage and its performers. Just as in life. Not only does Doug Sax say this, but those who are fortunate enough today to still have a set of LD Series speakers at home, despite perhaps speaker re-coning needed over the years. Thanks to the dedication of Vincenzo Biasella (then "Boss", but also the designer) and the contribution of Eng. Ferrer, also thanks to the purchase of a set of tools Bruel & Kjaer which at that time cost more than a house, and the building of an anechoic chamber, small, but still good enough, ESB reached, within a few years, an industrial dimension. It was the happy moment of the Italian post-war industrial boom and everything was booming.
It was in those 1970's years that built then become a myth and began the conquest of the market, dominated almost exclusively by-products from the Americans and British. Now, thanks to E.S.B they had broken the wall of foreign domination that existed before, and more Italian producers such as RCF and Indiana Line, then Sonus Faber and many others were soon born. This was the birth of the Italian school of HiFi. First speakers, then Italian amplifiers and other audio electronics. During those years ESB became large advertiser in audio magazines (Sound and Stereoplay the first, Audiovision, AudioReview and Discoteca arriving later) and Renato Giussani know who already 'worked with these magazines would at the end of 79, join the staff of the ESB assuming the role of chief engineer and, alongside the founder Vincenzo Biasella, will finalize the 7 Series, the evolution of philosophy had already generated the UMA concept (United Mid-high Drivers) aiming at optimizing the front listening area, something he had not done any until then... In 1978, the ESB company responded to the need for "limited changes" to the company if future growth plans were to be achieved. ESB begins the construction in Aprilia, Italy of an immense building for a Hi-Fi company (14,000 mt. Square covered surface for manufacturing and offices). The construction takes several years to complete, but that immediately allows ESB to make a qualitative and quantitative leap. Thanks to the commissioning of super modern machinery for the woodworking and a design office that could be envied by anyone in the world, with probably the largest anechoic chamber owned by a manufacturer of speakers of that time (2,000 Cu mt), productivity quickly grows to 1000 loudspeakers per day. But the dizzying growth in production while also having an equally important growth in terms of quality and innovation with the creation of the DSR and the construction of the series 7 with the fundamental contribution of Renato Giussani. “… we hear a vocal -Amanda’s, it was so happened-coming from some unknown speaker. It is instantly obvious that this is the best I’ve ever heard her sound, save for standing next to her. Everything sounded glorious and musical... Again, the best reproduction of voice has ever heard.”
“… We went and listened to the whole sonata (Strauss).
I can’t remember the last time that listened through a complete work. The result was stunning, way beyond accurate; a seamless, effortless recreation of the instruments, the room, the musician’s interplay, and emotion- I have never heard a speaker re-create the spatiality of these Italian wonders. The ESB 40 LD, a restorative experience.“ ESB, the corporation, was officially born in 1972. But three years earlier we had already entered the market with the historic 240L loudspeaker. Since then it's been 47 years, we have traveled the market of high fidelity (home and automotive) in all its evolution, acquiring a wealth of experience and knowledge that are hard to find elsewhere. An assembly of people, labor, investment, and insights. What we present in these pages are the most important milestones, technical and commercial. What we cannot tell, for obvious limitations of space (and memory) are all the human contacts, confrontations, discussions, and discoveries during our unique and important journey of almost 50 years.