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I was playing today with Stage Acompany SA 8535 Ribbon driver. It is truly 103dB sensitive little monster with crazily large 3 poll Neodymium magnet. I did listen the driver and there are some things that I like in it and there are some that I do not. I will not comment about the sound of this driver as this point (will do it later) as I would like to spend more time with it. However, juts looking at the design of the driver I can see that there is a lot in it could be made better for the sake of my specific application.

The driver does not look as pure ribbon but rather an array or ribbons (with impedance of 12R, no transformer) enveloped in some kind of plastic. Then this plastic is damped on it’s back with some sort of felt. The driver has very large back chamber, way larger then I deed for over 12K tweeter and the chamber in additionally damped. All of it could be done differently for my HF-only application and I did try to lower the size of the back chamber – it did sound better.

Generally I have good impression about the driver but they designed it to use from 2kHz and with higher power… Let see how the sucker will behave in a few days…

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