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In Reply to: Re: Perception of Maggie Bass response part II posted by DrM on June 3, 2000 at 13:28:04:
DrM,I agree with your comparison between the 1.6's and 3.6's.
In regard to the Bass:
The 3.6's are much larger, so it has the triple advantages of a larger surface area bass driver (which lowers the required excursion and the distortion) larger panel size (which increases bass by moving the panel's phase cancellation to a lower frequency), and the benefit of substatially imcreased mass (a standard technique for improving bass)In regard to the the highs:
The true ribbon design of the tweeter is perhaps the finest on the planet. Its somewhat fragile and needs the fuse it comes with.In regard to the inferior balance of the 3.6's in comparison to the 1.6's:
The 1.6's use a simple 2-way crossover, which is a nearly ideal situation. For a multitude of reasons, 3-way or more complex crossover networks simply don't work as well as 2-way designs. And thus its far more difficult to seamlessly integrate the drivers. Unfortunately, 2 way designs just can give enough frequency coverage to cover all 10 octaves well.
Perhaps more important is that the ribbons and planar magnetic tweeter (so-called quasi-ribbion)panels differ significanlty in design and construction. In addition, the radiation pattern of the ribbon is nearly 360 instead of the bipoalr 180 degree radiation of the other panels, so it can only be "kinda" balanced depending on where you set in relation to the speakers (its analogeous to the problems of integratin a cone subwoofer which rolls off a 6 db per metter with an electrostatic panels which rolls off at 3db per meter) its only balabced at one listening spot.Wish I could afford the 3.6's :-)
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