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In Reply to: RE: Lunch-break' mindless ramblings on drivers integration posted by JBen on July 08, 2014 at 01:33:21
One thing that Maggies have in favor of 'em is that the sound wave comes from a single PLANE.
Toe is used to adjust dispersion and also distance from listener to each 'way'. The last depends on crossover.
With my 1.6s having the bass and mid/tweet 90 degrees apart, you basically adjust toe for that distance difference between drivers and you are back in phase.
Too much is never enough
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Thanks, Pix! Yes, the "same plane" most certainly is a large and critically important part of the integration. And, like you mentioned, other elements also affect the time domain interactions and alignments.
Yet, there has to be more at play. Let's consider this. With many true ribbon tweeter Maggies -- despite anything one may attempt -- the tweeter can easily disrupt the "oneness". Now, I must say that the 3.7 is a damn good integrated ribbon system...I don't easily lose the sense of integration when listening to them (though I still do at times depending on the program material). The 3.6R/20.1 and earlier never accomplished this integration for me. I have not really "listened" to the 20.7 yet.
OTOH, none of the single-panel/same-diaphragm Maggies has ever disrupted the integrated illusion for me (unless internally damaged). Of course, this better integration does not easily make up for other of their performance shortfalls. However, I am beginning to suspect that "better integration" means far more to me than I ever admitted to myself.
I have near-zero ribbon listening time, except for a couple brief demo listens of ribbon Maggies.
UNTIL, I listened to the 20s of GL.
This was a real eye-opener and was an amazing setup of near-zero compromise. While I may quibble about amps, crossovers or whatever, the net effect was quite amazing.
Too much is never enough
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