Thanks for sharing your experience with us Vapor and congratulations on your Cirrus speaker which for many has pushed the boundary on price vs. performance.
You've observed that RAAL and Raidho tweeters made many of the top domes simply sound slow, lifeless and boring. To add to this I have observed that resolution tends to be superior with ribbons. Furthermore, when I was auditioning speakers prior to my purchase of the Raidhos I did notice something else which differentiated the Raidhos and that was their uncanny quietness. I perceived the speaker as providing a really black background against which to provide the music. Sometime after ownership that I stumbled across a lab report which showed very low distortion for the treble typically 0.05% 2nd and 0.025% 3rd which is practically non-existent and at moderate listening levels close to electrostatic levels.
While I have found no sense of discontinuity through the cross over area Dracule does raise a fair point around the challenges of integrating a ribbon like tweeter with a cone woofer. The challenge as I understand it is not about speed but more pointedly about dispersion characteristics though there is obvious linkage. In a discussion I had last week with Alon Wolf (founder of Magico); Alon was quick to point out the challenges of ribbon/cone integration as the reason for selecting dome tweeters for his latest Q series loudspeakers. I have auditioned the Q1, an obvious competitor to the Raidho C-1.1 though since the audition was not in my own system I will leave my observations to myself on this.
As a designer I wondered whether you might share your thoughts on the integration puzzle?
You've observed that RAAL and Raidho tweeters made many of the top domes simply sound slow, lifeless and boring. To add to this I have observed that resolution tends to be superior with ribbons. Furthermore, when I was auditioning speakers prior to my purchase of the Raidhos I did notice something else which differentiated the Raidhos and that was their uncanny quietness. I perceived the speaker as providing a really black background against which to provide the music. Sometime after ownership that I stumbled across a lab report which showed very low distortion for the treble typically 0.05% 2nd and 0.025% 3rd which is practically non-existent and at moderate listening levels close to electrostatic levels.
While I have found no sense of discontinuity through the cross over area Dracule does raise a fair point around the challenges of integrating a ribbon like tweeter with a cone woofer. The challenge as I understand it is not about speed but more pointedly about dispersion characteristics though there is obvious linkage. In a discussion I had last week with Alon Wolf (founder of Magico); Alon was quick to point out the challenges of ribbon/cone integration as the reason for selecting dome tweeters for his latest Q series loudspeakers. I have auditioned the Q1, an obvious competitor to the Raidho C-1.1 though since the audition was not in my own system I will leave my observations to myself on this.
As a designer I wondered whether you might share your thoughts on the integration puzzle?