Ribbon Tweeters???

Normally speaking, most ribbons are no different from traditional drivers in that the larger the driver the lower the resonance and Larger ribbons can be crossed lower. Many still need to be crossed higher than their dome counterparts. They are very different on how they read on impedance sweeps (ribbons are more linear)and most ribbons have peaks to deal with. When done right, Good ribbons are fast and very smooth without losing detail. You can argue from model to model, but many still have the beamy syndrome, but this has improved and continues to improve with different models every year. Also understand, every thing stated above is in general, there are exceptions.

Timlub,Can you explain what you mean by "beamy"syndrome?Thanks to all for your replies.

Montejay, do you remember which Coincident speakers you had? Coincident also uses the Hi Vi ribbon tweeter?

I had a pair of LSA1 Statements for a time. They use an Aurum Cantus ribbon tweeter, I believe. The highs were sweet and airy, very nice!

One of the raps on ribbon tweeters, in the past, has been that they are difficult to integrate seamlessly with a cone mid-woofer -- two different technologies, etc. But I have to say that while the LSA's weren't ultimately my "forever" speakers, I never heard any glaring discontinuities between drivers. I liked them quite a bit.

Beamy meaning very limited dispersion pattern.