Planar to dynamic, dynamic to planar, or ...


do you swing both ways? No sexual connotation intended. What is your reason for converting from dynamic to planar or vice versa? Or do you still find yourself going back and forth. I went from planar (Maggie, electrostats, Apogee) to dynamic (Hyperion) but I still consider myself more of a planar guy. I'm really eyeing the new Apogee Syngergy (way too expensive for me at the present time). OK, OK, so I swing both ways...so I said it!
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As I have mentioned before, I can swing from planar to cone in the middle of a music selection simply by changing the crossover frequency between my cones (a subwoofer system capable of up to 400 Hz) and my Maggies. (If one used a full range cone speaker system, with mid and tweeter, you could run the cones all the way up).

Although I am a planar fan, I do admit that some kinds of music, most notably organ played at high volume, sounds best with cones. By the way, I also think that horn midrange and tweeter are best for horn instruments like trumpet, but I haven't yet got arount to installing switchable horn drivers.