I'm looking for input and listening impressions from people who have used RAAL tweeters.
At the moment, I'm taking my time in the planning stage of a 12-15” 3-way build, and among the high-frequency driver considerations are RAAL's ribbon tweeters. This might come as a surprise, but the tweeters will will not be intended for concert-level playback. Most of my listening is around speech levels, sometimes twice this for short periods.
The models being considering for a ~3kHz highpass point include the 210-10DAM (The Lazy Ribbon), 140-15DAM, 70-20XRAM, or the 70-10DAM.
All of these tweeters have impressive settling times and minimal resonance, but I didn’t find any off-axis response data or distortion plots for The Lazy Ribbon. If anyone has experience with correcting the rising response and feel the driver is worthwhile, your input is also very welcome here.
Updated for clarity.
At the moment, I'm taking my time in the planning stage of a 12-15” 3-way build, and among the high-frequency driver considerations are RAAL's ribbon tweeters. This might come as a surprise, but the tweeters will will not be intended for concert-level playback. Most of my listening is around speech levels, sometimes twice this for short periods.
The models being considering for a ~3kHz highpass point include the 210-10DAM (The Lazy Ribbon), 140-15DAM, 70-20XRAM, or the 70-10DAM.
All of these tweeters have impressive settling times and minimal resonance, but I didn’t find any off-axis response data or distortion plots for The Lazy Ribbon. If anyone has experience with correcting the rising response and feel the driver is worthwhile, your input is also very welcome here.
Updated for clarity.
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The Lazy Ribbon is mostly used on big horn setups. If you are looking for something to go in a 3 way I would personally be looking at the 140-15D AM. Unless you want to blow your mind and go open baffle, then I would be looking at the Dipole 140-15D AM. If you are looking to do something in the bookshelf size I would be looking at the 70-20XR AM or the 70-10D AM.
I have both (been using the dipoles for about 13 years now in my OB system) both the dipoles and monopoles of the 140-15D AM are fantastic.