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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry)
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Subject: Re: ribbon vs. electro statics
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 08:25:26 EDT
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<ribbons make fine food, but static electricity really gives zip>

Krueger may well be right about the technical details about the two
but I think he is incorrect about ribbon speakers being just tweeters.
Stuart Audio in Westfield NJ (another good snob shop, though not quite
in the league of Lyric HiFi) had a pair of large (2' wide by 5' tall)
pair of ribbon speakers.  We heard a cd version of a Bach organ work -
completely blew the speakers away - gave the bass pipes a real buzz
(which is ok if they are reeds, but these were not - oh well).
So in one sense he may be right in that the speakers certainly could
not handle the woofer end very well at all.

I suppose that all this ribbon technology gives new meaning to the
song line "round her neck she wore a yellow ribbon".

Dewayne Perry