Don't get too excited about female tweeters: on the long run, their high-pitch voices will annoy you.
By the way, another speaker worth auditioning is the ones by eminent technology. ribbon mids and ribbon tweeters...
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Wolf,
I looked at your post from few years ago on PE, I see in your 100+ list you have a few ribbons but no Ravens or AC G1s. Are you saying the LCY110 or the Visation are better? From the looks I would say you prefer domes though.
In what respects do you think the AC G1 sounds the same as the Raven 3.2?
I looked at your post from few years ago on PE, I see in your 100+ list you have a few ribbons but no Ravens or AC G1s. Are you saying the LCY110 or the Visation are better? From the looks I would say you prefer domes though.
In what respects do you think the AC G1 sounds the same as the Raven 3.2?
I ordered 5µm aluminum foil to remembraining the Neo Pro 5i. I know from times when I used electrostatic speakers that the thinner membranes sound more accurate and life-like. There is also 2,5µm foil around the Internet (at quite high cost) but I will at least first experiment and train to do it with the 5µm stuff and see how it sounds.
Besides higher freq response, better clarity etc. I expect higher sensitivity also. Motor force stays the same but ribbon become 3 times lighter than original. I will first remembrane the other one, measure them side-by-side, and post my findings if someone might find it interesting.
Neo Pro 5i has massive neo magnets, they are thicker than my thumb. One has to be careful with the screw driver so it doesn't become a screw diver into the magnetic gap and ripping the ribbon! 🙂
Besides higher freq response, better clarity etc. I expect higher sensitivity also. Motor force stays the same but ribbon become 3 times lighter than original. I will first remembrane the other one, measure them side-by-side, and post my findings if someone might find it interesting.
Neo Pro 5i has massive neo magnets, they are thicker than my thumb. One has to be careful with the screw driver so it doesn't become a screw diver into the magnetic gap and ripping the ribbon! 🙂
Hi Wolf,
Oh maybe I read your posts incorrectly, I thought you had heard both of these.
I'm curious about the AST2560 and how it compares to the ribbons you mentioned. Doesn't seem to be in any high end (ie: very expensive)systems using the AMTs.
Legis, I think the Raals use 4uM foil.
Oh maybe I read your posts incorrectly, I thought you had heard both of these.
I'm curious about the AST2560 and how it compares to the ribbons you mentioned. Doesn't seem to be in any high end (ie: very expensive)systems using the AMTs.
Legis, I think the Raals use 4uM foil.
Quite literally one that suits the application as the choice isn't particularly large.
It's an Aura NT1 Titanium dome. Some new old stock I managed to procure. I've milled them down from original to around 29mm in outside diameter. Then removed the phase plug from the B&W FST and mounted the tweeter coaxially.
They are crossed at 2.5kHz, this way I get an excellent directivity match and a nice region of controlled directivity due to the wave-guide like loading of the cone. The FST makes for an excellent coaxial due to the atypical surround termination. It measures very well.
And a shot of the driver.
But no doubt all of this goes heavily against your apparent principles.
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Quite literally one that suits the application as the choice isn't particularly large.
It's an Aura NT1 Titanium dome. Some new old stock I managed to procure. I've milled them down from original to around 29mm in outside diameter. Then removed the phase plug from the B&W FST and mounted the tweeter coaxially.
They are crossed at 2.5kHz, this way I get an excellent directivity match and a nice region of controlled directivity due to the wave-guide like loading of the cone. The FST makes for an excellent coaxial due to the atypical surround termination. It measures very well.
And a shot of the driver.
But no doubt all of this goes heavily against your apparent principles.
BRAVO !! EXCELLENT !! The cat's meow 🙂
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It's because , for me . the courant ( the signal ) must pass in ribbons ..... aluminium or copper ( too wheight ) is good , not sure for beryllium or titanium is as good as aluminium !
It's a electrical proprety of metal .....
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It's because , for me . the courant ( the signal ) must pass in ribbons ..... aluminium or copper ( too wheight ) is good , not sure for beryllium or titanium is as good as aluminium !
It's a electrical proprety of metal .....
Well it does sound rather good. The NT1 has a nice underhung motor and very low distortion over the frequency band that it's operated over. As a proof of concept I used the ND16 from Dayton Audio, which although nice doesn't sound anywhere near as smooth as the NT1. It was a little pushed beyond its limits though.
As I do a lot of listening nearfield the coaxial makes a huge difference. I was shocked at how much better it sounded than the traditionally mounted drivers. The tweeter of course in a wave guide.
If I were to do this again but didn't have access to the FST or NT1 and needed an off the shelf unit I'd probably go for the SEAS C18EN001/M. It doesn't have the sensitivity of the FST, but it does have everything else.
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Probabely me too ........... I have some Coral fullrange and it's a another word
But he is also expensive that the RAAL !
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Probabely me too ........... I have some Coral fullrange and it's a another word
But he is also expensive that the RAAL !
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For me the degrade of harmonic must be in // not that I see on graph
For me it's not good ! .......... sorry
Mmm but within its limited usable range the Fountek has pretty low distortion. The RAAL isn't exactly a class leader in that regard either.
NeoCD2
For me the degrade of harmonic must be in // not that I see on graph
For me it's not good ! .......... sorry
Quite literally one that suits the application as the choice isn't particularly large.
It's an Aura NT1 Titanium dome. Some new old stock I managed to procure. I've milled them down from original to around 29mm in outside diameter. Then removed the phase plug from the B&W FST and mounted the tweeter coaxially.
They are crossed at 2.5kHz, this way I get an excellent directivity match and a nice region of controlled directivity due to the wave-guide like loading of the cone. The FST makes for an excellent coaxial due to the atypical surround termination. It measures very well.
And a shot of the driver.
But no doubt all of this goes heavily against your apparent principles.
Look for B&W's new line of coaxial monitors in the next couple of years.
Low .... OK
But the brain don't like this not naturel of harmonic extinction ..... they must be more and more low level when go on very high frequency or higher harmonic ...... the timbre off instrument must be not naturel
H2 is go up in level with frequency .............. bad
H4 and H5 same level ................. bad
Look the graph of RAAL , he is much more frienly for extinction of harmonic ..... //(parallèle) and down regular with more and more higher treble .
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What¿? H4 and H5 are in the noise floor of the measurement equipment and completely off the audible radar. The rising H2 will also be inaudible and pretty much all amplifiers have rising distortion with frequency, are you saying this is a huge problem too? The brain doesn't care about the profile of the distortion products if it cannot hear them. Besides this has a fairly standard h2 highest h3 lower and h4 + h5 even lower. What's not to like?
You don't know the supertweeter effect ? .......... it's not the ear that caption the very high frequency ( higher that 15 khz to 80 khz ) but give a more air to sound stage image ..... up to -120 db and more lower also
- 90 db is your floor measurement equipment .......... not very good !
- 90 db is your floor measurement equipment .......... not very good !
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