Plasma speakers anyone with info?


I can find many sites for diy but cannot find any for sale . Help! Nick
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While i've never heard a Plasma tweeter, i've been told by others that i trust that there are NO other options once you've experienced them first-hand. Their speed is unmatched by any type of driver based on a physical material. In specific, the Hill Plasma drivers were bone flat out to 40 KHz and remained linear out to appr 100 KHz if i remember correctly.

I know that our friend overseas ( the magical and mystical Detlof ) uses Plasma tweeters with E-stats for mids and large planars for bottom end. He's a good guy and would probably be glad to fill you in on specifics such as benefits, drawbacks, safety precautions, etc...

I can dig up a site where a guy had several hybrid dynamic / plasma speakers for sale. Some were still new in the box if i remember correctly. Drop me an email if you're interested and i'll try and hook the two of you up... Sean
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Thanks Bear. The Magnat's were the ones that i was thinking of but couldn't remember the name. I'm still looking for the address, but the guy had several pairs of various models, some still sealed in the box.

I remember seeing some stuff about the Hill woofer. It supposedly had the fastest transient response / most linear output at 30 Hz of any woofer available at the time of production. Even with that good of a woofer, the mass of a 14" dynamic driver will always sound slow and out of synce when mated with what we would consider a "massless" radiator.

I have a friend with a TON of the Dukane Ionovac's. Some have never been fired and are still in the original packaging. Would it be worth hitting him up for some of these ????? Sean
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