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Post Subject: Ribbons vs. CDs vs. Range vs. TonePosted by Paul S on: 6/26/2025
Years ago I got acceptable HF running RTR electrostatic tweeter arrays over Peerless paper tweeters. Those paper tweeters worked at suprisingly high frequencies, at least they did using the sources and amps in the system I had at the time (not to mention, with that experience and expectations). Those HF drivers had a pretty wide overlap. I never thought of those RTR super tweeters as having tone or color, rather they provided "air" and coherent details. I used the same idea again with Fountek ribbons, running them parallel for a while, using them for air and detail over paper drivers. Now I have (18 Sound) CDs/horns from 1,200Hz to >9k, and I use Visaton TL16H CDs/horns above those. In this case, I do get some color from the UHF drivers, and with the CDs/horns below them I am glad for that color in the X/O range! YMMV, of course, but the difference between color and colorized remains important to me.
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