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Final Sound LLC
Audiophiles have long revered electrostatic speakers for their exceptionally transparent sound, but most electrostats, in achieving that level of performance, won’t exactly blend easily into a room. They generally have to be really big to play loud and get a decent amount of bass. And because electrostats radiate sound equally from both the front and the rear, they usually sound best when positioned well out into the room away from the walls. Making matters worse, electrostats need a source of power to keep their panels charged, and they require large, heavy transformers for the audio signal. Although this might sound prohibitive for creating an elegant, sleek design that can hang next to a flat-panel TV, a Dutch company called Final Sound has worked to solve the electrostatic speakers’ ergonomic issues in a number of clever ways.

Final Sound’s electrostatic speakers can be wall-mounted thanks to a separate power supply.

Using a separate subwoofer, the electrostatic designer can build a much smaller panel that can be positioned much closer to the wall. To get around the need for bulky transformers and a power source, Final Sound moves all of the associated electronics for each panel into one component-sized box called the Final Central Unit (FCU), which is then housed in the equipment cabinet along with the rest of your gear. Each panel is connected to the FCU using a special three-conductor cable that carries the power for the panel along with the signal. The resulting panels are small by electrostatic standards and can be mounted to the wall using the optional swiveling wall mounts. Final Sound can supply custom terminated lengths of this cable as needed, or the company can provide the raw materials so that a custom installer can run the cables inside the wall.