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Do you remember in the brilliant cartoon “Ice Age” there was that lovely character who was going of his way in his infinite chase for the nut? I feel audio people have the sale obsession with ribbons, or more precisely with importer use it ribbons. Ribbons are HF transducers and it is what they do well. Some ribbons can do lower frequencies but the quality of the sound from ribbons gradually going down with each hertz. The ribbons that I have seen were OK after 8K-10K, still there are countless people out there who keep pushing ribbons doe to 1000-2000Hz, or even lower. Yes, ribbons can handle it, they can handle all the way down if they made to do so, but ribbons do not sound there well and they completely are loosing the advance of it’s topology is they used lower then HF region.

The AA’s Sewers always was a wonderful place to find some evidences of audio–idiocy. I went today at to the Sewers and the very first what I have seen was: “Which Ribbon Tweeter for JBL D130 2-way?” With all stupidity of the objectives to use using D130 and ribbon for two ways it is actually what most of the people do.

Yes, I know, there are some people who would disagree with me. Brian Cheney of VMPS would say”no cones”, juts the VMPS’ ribbons. I have seen his latest V-shaped large ribbons speaker and I feel that Brian completely enslaved his auditable rational to a celebration of his design concepts.  I like Brian Cheney a lot but I disagree with his loudspeakers objectives. I personally feel that as ribbon dive under 8K they way out of their rank and it is possible to get more condoled and noble result by the means of other topologies…

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