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In the Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters.
Post Subject: One comment about electrostatics and plasma...Posted by AOK_Farmer on: 1/28/2005
KIS,
I have owned the Martin Logan CLS's so I have some long term experience with electrostatics. To me it seems that the Acapella plasma tweeter (which I have heard for a total of less than 30 minutes!) had a SIMILAR quality of sound and yet a DIFFERENT way of presenting music from the electrostatic and I think I can explain it like this:
Both have a quality of excellent microdynamics at the expense of macrodynamics (I apologize to Romy for using such language as *Atilla the Hun* would use). With the plasma crossed high enough I think there is a point where this macrodynamical limitation does not play a role because the macrodynamics are at lower frequencies. So I think that the electrostatic and the plasma sonically will mate beautifully being *birds of a feather* in this important sound character.
But I have never heard an electrostatic upper midrange that sounded as musical and lifelike to my ear as the acapella tweeter did. There was a feeling of delight, musically, which I had with that tweeter that I didnt have with the Martin Logans. Is it possibly because the tweeter doesnt have to deal with macrodynamics and the electrostatics did?
This is where it all gets interesting however...when you find that a similar "quality of the sound" doesnt transfer to a similar "quality of musical experience".
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