Originally Posted by
Ian Mackenzie
Distortion in both comes down to excersion limitations at the lower end of their useful range.
Provided your Altec driver is loaded with the right horn and crossover it should deliver low distortion for home use.
Don't expect it to compete with the most expensive Scanspeak Revelator dome tweeter, it won't. In that respect the Altec ain't Hifi.
Ribbons. Its the biggest bullshit story floating the www at the moment.
By design they have shocking distortion at the bottom end of their quoted range. The marketing is all hype. The massive 2 harmonic distortion sounds nice to some. But they work well as a super tweeter.
Ian