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[quote user="Paul S"]Likely, the wider ribbons are less good for HF-only than a long, narrow ribbon, like the G3 and G3Si use. Across the board, the larger the ribbon gets (and the lower the ribbon is made to go), the worse ...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I can report that the G2Si loses the "glycerin" at 10k with the ML2s…. [/quote]
I concur with this finding. Any ribbon tweeter that I heard has "glycerin" tone but it is because the ribbon mostly crossed too low. I would say th...
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[quote user="haralanov"] The ribbon is 100% tonally … If you use this tweeter lower than 10kHz your system will be totally unlistenable because you cannot reproduce the proper tone of harmonics.[/quote] It is pretty much what I found as well during m...
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[quote user="morricab"]Hi Romy,I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone. The reason why is this: They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty...
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I have been in contact with Andy.He replied to my first e-mail but for some reason, not to my e-mail with basic questions, reprinted below.I seem to have misunderstood about the mic capsule being a ribbon. But most of the questions were still v...
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One of many issues with dipole speakers is directivity/beaming at HF. I have been firing multiple paper tweeters at various angles on my OB test mules with varying results. Here is Alex's idea for a dipole ribbon:https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.c...
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Ribbon might be a good choice, but what is wrong with horn tweeters?...
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I have been asked by a number people who monitored my progress with RAAL’s “Water Drop” tweeter: “Romy was it worth it?” Well, I think after a year of leaving with tweeter, learning and satisfying it’s little habits I might pass some generalizing obs...
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I had a number of discussions about ribbons loading into horns and I generally do not welcome this idea. There are a few reasons why it never work properly and one of the most convincing is that in order to develop enough output from a ribbon you nee...
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That is one textbook HF ribbon, Romy, long, narrow and naked as a jaybird.Don't be surprised if eventually a certain amount of magnetic "dust" somehow finds its way into that ultra-strong magnet gap. Who knows what it is or where it c...
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[quote user="Andy Simpson"] I thought that eventually you would take my hint.... liquid damping in microphones is something I have given some thought to - especially given that air comes under 'fluid dynamics' - but I will get to my own solution shor...
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I'm sorry, I thought I mentioned that I was responding to the earlier post about HF, up the thread. I guess I misunderstood from other reading that you much preferred your crossovers at line level, while I was proposing it a...
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I'm wondering if part of this "glycerin" sound of ribbons is just "ribbon sound", or purely frequency dependent, or if it has to do with the size of a given ribbon at a given frequency. But why should ribbons not be subjected to the same demand...
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Hi Romy,I have found that the Apogee loudspeakers ribbon drivers can quite successfully reproduce correct tone. The reason why is this: They have very little coloration from the driver materials themselves (no nasty resonances as the reso...
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Coops, I less care about the attacks on me, I know that I am a pH-indicator of Moronity among audio freaks. So, if some specific idiots out there are not happy about me then… it is good for me. The higher we climb in mountains the stronger wind and l...
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[quote user="morricab"]Well Romy, IMO they are not just tonally different they are more tonally correct, ie. they simply have less coloration than other technologies. Just listen to a recording sometime made with a ribbon microphone and you wil...
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[quote user="anthony"]My RAAL Lazy Ribbon has ended up needing a 1st order high pass filter to match the midrange S2 which is so much more convenient than third or fourth order as initially intended.[/quote]
In my case I found that RAAL ribbon wit...
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actually this is not so much about horn loading ribbons as it is about curving them, but also horn loading. look at this horn: http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pio/pe/images/portal/cit_3442/35960TH-4003_s.jpgnow imagine a ribbon of approximately sam...
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Vincent Brient is French guy who has built an interesting installation that I think worth to analyze. Years back Vincent was an enthusiast, like normal people, but it looks recently he turned “pro” and came to audio market with his own version of...
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Wow, Romy, what a fraught time! You seem to have (somehow) focused on your sound system and narrowed things down to a tweeter, or at least some viable way to add "color". While you were talking, I was thinking that your S2s actually go pretty high, m...
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Alex obviously knows a whole lot about ribbons, and I like his approach, too. So I wonder how his 70-10 stock model sounds at 2k Hz, which it is rated for and so designed to do. I really wonder if this ribbon might be an excepti...
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Romy:Again thanks for the response. With regard to the most important question, my choice would be to use the standard AM Amorphous C-Core transformers in the short term but the Direct Tube Drive in the long term. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was in t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Here is another very interning solution to compliment S2 driver with top end. Townshend Audio have their Ribbon Tweeter with reported 110dB sensitivity and price of $1500. http://www.townshendaudio.net/index.php?option=com...
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Alas, no time for anything at the moment, the listening valuation must await construction of the amps (and speakers...)Also, it is a very custom application - it is designed to drive an array of ribbon tweeters. Normally these have matching transform...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Romy is trying do not create problems that need to be addressed by the ideas of waveguides.[/quote]
well the way not to create problems is have a giant electrostatic panel.
starting from that point we create problems ...
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Yes, my idea is not just optimistic but unrealistic. Returning to the question of technology for mass horn production, what about having an armature made of a coiled steel ribbon, the coiling being perpendicular to the plane of the ribbon. Thus the c...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Regarding your HF: Do you use a naked ribbon over 10k? If the PP2000 has worked for you, you might want to try it.[/quote]Well, I will try the PP2000 after I have finished evaluating the new 2A3 tubes. The EdgarHorn Titans use a...
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[quote user="starboy"]My preferred type of speaker is a full range ribbon…[/quote]Starboy, is it possible? Could you elaborate in it? I, admittedly being an ignorant person in ribbons, see lot of purely fundamental limitations in driving ribbon down....
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I believe that the Arum Cantus is typical of most ribbons in mirroring one of the principal failings of MC cartridges, a rising top end (over 20k), although I have not actually heard this - at all - with my own small Arum Cantus, and I just go n...
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[quote user="cv"] Don't be pissed about me keeping you in the dark regarding the ribbons; your comments elsewhere on the Nolas and ribbons in general had me loathe to make any recommendations. I think we may have very different tastes in terms of tre...
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