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Lower distortion = faster speed?

I was just curious about that reviewer because I always equate lower distortion to faster speeds and I have never seen any conventional cone drivers to have the ability to match the speeds of the low mass planar types.


Why would you equate lower distortion to faster speed? The only case I can think of when they've had anything to do with each other was back in the days when amplifier slew rate was low enough to cause TIM.

Also, the mass of a conventional tweeter dome is less than a big sheet of coated mylar. The frequency response of a Quad ESL doesn't even make it to 20 KHz. That's not very fast.


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