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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker
Post Subject: Even if power is good: Ribbons and basketballPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/1/2007
 Paul S wrote:
Romy, when you mention "dynamic sinking" of ribbons are you speaking of sub-8k Hz use of powerful ribbons like the Water Drop compared to 109 dB efficient compression drivers, or do you notice this dynamic sinking no matter how high you cross over? As you know, I use ~96 dB dynamic drivers and my 96 dB ribbons crossed ~10k Hz.  In this context I have not noticed any more dynamic sinking from the ribbons than I get from the dynamic drivers. Perhaps the lesser root efficiency and general problems with my L/MF effectively mask any dynamic sinking by my own HF ribbon during my own listening.
I have writhen before that I feel that best compression drivers are capable to develop more “brutal” dynamic then ribbons. The brutally is the key as the ribbons are disabled to play impolite or boorish if music is asked for. Regardless of the crossover point the ribbons subjectively soften transients a high volume. They do not loose details but they very slightly loose dynamic. It is like you jump up and someone at the moment of your jump move the floor for a few inches down. I do not want to go into details in here, it is Cressaro thread, but there is a good chance that in a few weeks this problem might be resoled.

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