As some you guys who flow this thread know my search for Macondo lead me to the world of ribbons. In the mid of last October some of you (I believe it was Chris) pointed out to the RAAL company. I was skeptical but decided to explore the opportunely. This lead to very unexpected result and to a very interesting project. After many conversations RAAL and me formed out a “research projects” endorsing some very “obnoxious” requirements with the ambition to make a “new tweeter”. Well, after a few a month and few hundreds (thousands!) dollars the project is through and the tweeters are sitting here.

I’m making this post to logically summarize this thread. All information about my experiences with the “RAAL WATER DROP TWEETER” will be posted in a dedicated thread. Thanks for everyone who suggests different things – it was educational thread.

Chris, in the begging of the thread I promised that person who will lead me to a new tweeter will get a gift. Well, I need to play with this tweeter for a while to figure out if the project was success. Then I will in my ultimate Jewish frugality determine how valuable the gift should be…. :-)

BTW, I would like to mention one more opportunity for the folks who are playing with S2 driver.

There is another interesting tweeter option: use the HF section of the Tannoy’s dual concentric drivers (only form 50s-60s). The design of those drivers was very simples and to disassemble the driver into one very easy manageable tweeter of very easy to do. The tweet looks like around 100dB sensitivity. The horn in there garbage and might be worked with and you would need own 2-4 order crossover as the Tannoy’s dual concentric tweeter is essentially a MF driver. If I do not have the RAAL’s “Water Drop” I would defiantly go further with it as I feel it might be worthy.

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_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=81

I never had this tweeter and I have no intention to try but for someone who look for options to use a Ribbon Tweeter to compliment S2 it might be an opportunity.

Romy the Cat wrote:

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_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=81 I never had this tweeter and I have no intention to try but for someone who look for options to use a Ribbon Tweeter to compliment S2 it might be an opportunity. The caT