Thoughts on RAAL tweeter? BMR tower and Ascend ELX

[bagwell359]

I suspect that the RAAL ribbon tweeters might be more fragile and less durable than a standard dome tweeter. This is ok if you live in the same country or easy access to send to repair, but in another country without local customer service the RAAL feels riskier to me.

@AscendDF am I right?

My history w/ ribbons:

* Panasonic on my DQ-10 in place of tweet and super tweeter in early-mid 80's

* Changed my DQ-10 to the Pyramid

* Bought a Duetta Sig w/ ribbon tweeter later 80's

* Got a Maggie 3.5 w/ ribbon tweets

* Triangle Celius 202 used for HT w/ Fountek ribbon

* same Fountek tucked into a ProAc Tablette

* BMR Philharmonic Monitor w/ Raal

I had some of these for years, and know where most of them are at today - zero problems with any of them - as long as you keep DC out of them and cross them over at 18 db or greater slope above 3.2k, or 12 db around 4k.

 

[Ricardojoa]

The BMR monitor are not bright. The sound is very expansive,

 

[jmdesignz2]

My history w/ ribbons:

* Panasonic on my DQ-10 in place of tweet and super tweeter in early-mid 80's

* Changed my DQ-10 to the Pyramid

* Bought a Duetta Sig w/ ribbon tweeter later 80's

* Got a Maggie 3.5 w/ ribbon tweets

* Triangle Celius 202 used for HT w/ Fountek ribbon

* same Fountek tucked into a ProAc Tablette

* BMR Philharmonic Monitor w/ Raal

I had some of these for years, and know where most of them are at today - zero problems with any of them - as long as you keep DC out of them and cross them over at 18 db or greater slope above 3.2k, or 12 db around 4k.

How are you liking your philharmonic? How long have you had it?