YG Acoustics, Raihdo?

Soix - Mike B didn’t leave to scratch an itch. He was fired for taking too long to come up with new designs. Lars left because he believes in Mike B. Mike doesn’t rush into anything. It has to be just right or he starts over. I heard the XT5’s which Raidho has ’made more efficient’ since Mike and Lars left and to me they just don’t sound right compared to the XT3. I want to hear the D4.8 to hear for myself if they got it right or screwed that up too IMO.

prof, you owe it to yourself to hear a pair of Rosso Fiorentino with the ribbon supertweeter.  The disconnect is something I've struggled with in almost every implementation, but Rosso gets that aspect right by using a dome tweeter to cover up to 25khz and the ribbon from 25-100 khz.  You get the air of the ribbon with the cohesive sound from the ribbon down to the cone woofer.

audiothesis,
Thanks for the heads up.   Maybe some day.   Never seen a dealer for those, and they look out of my price range.

Though the ribbon tweeter thing to me is similar to the hybrid electrostatics.  For years and years I've read reviews of electrostatic/hybrids that say "It used to be that hybrids had trouble coherently melding the dynamic drivers with the stat driver sound....but no more.  These are very coherent."  And then I heard that speaker and it's just the same old problem.   And it seems almost every review of a speaker using a ribbon tweeter starts the same "other designs had problems mating the ribbon with the dynamic drivers, but I heard no lack of coherence here...."    And then I hear the speaker, and it's the same old problem - I easily hear out the ribbon tweeter as a separate entity.

I agree prof. The biggest issue I've run across is the blending of the ribbon with the woofer. Using the ribbon as a supertweeter and a dome as a tweeter seems to alleviate this issue while still bringing that open and airy sound. Dali had used a similar configuration with some of their speakers as well.