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What are considered the best Speaker drivers ? What Speakers are successfully using them ?

Hello everyone,

The title says it all really but the budget would be no more than 30,000 dollars please,

I would say i am maybe considered old school Audiophile with only slight knowledge of modern day HiFi. I have over the years moved to panel Speakers and currently own Martin Logan CLX ART with Decent i Sub.

My system is very open sounding and creates a believable musical presentation but sometimes i am left wondering if i could get more Dynamics and body from a modern day box type Speaker without given up the strengths of my panels.

My room is only 12 ft W by 35 ft L by 8 ft H and treated with GIK Acoustics panels on front wall and first reflections points.

With so many Speaker companies the choices seems over whelming your help is very much appreciated thank you.


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The RAAL ribbon tweeter. Jim Salk uses it in his best models, and makes his subs with the Rythmik Servo-Feedback woofers.
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For DIY speaker builders, look into the GR Research drivers. Danny Richie is making his own version of the well-known NEO3 magnetic-planar tweeter, and some real nice dynamic midrange drivers and woofers. But drivers are of very limited value without a good crossover (unless you are a fan of wideband drivers), the design of which Danny is a modern master. For more info on all the above, watch on You Tube the GR Research Tech Talk Tuesday videos.

By the way, the Eminent Technology LFT magnetic-planar drivers are really good ones, unchanged since their introduction almost forty years ago! The dual m-p drivers in the ET LFT-8b cover 180Hz to 10kHz, with no x/o. Read that sentence again ;-). 10k and above is handled by an excellent ribbon tweeter, also designed and made by Bruce Thigpen.

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