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...I do have some tower speakers (1 x 10 on bottom,3 fst,s and 1 x 10 inch woofer up top) , I have seen images of these coupled with a vertical column of neopanels.
I do have some tower speakers (1 x 10 on bottom,3 fst,s and 1 x 10 inch woofer up top) , I have seen images of these coupled with a vertical column of neopanels.
No such animal. The closest VMPS model meeting the description above is FF2 SRE (Special Ribbon Edition): three holes horizontally centered in close vertical alignment at ear height are for three spiral planar tweeters. BC and designer Genesis labeled these "spiral ribbons" but technically a ribbon is defined by the existence if a transformer. No VMPS employed three FST ("Free Swinging Tweeter") a term BC employed because the term "ribbon" was already assigned to the spiral planar tweeters.IIRC the FF2 SRE mid range panel, approximately 50" long and attached to the side of the tower, was a true ribbon with a transformer, hence the term "Special Ribbon Edition" was accurate. The next and last FF2 was identical except a row of Neo planar panels replaced the single true ribbon.The FF2 mid range employed just prior to SRE were so-called "Dynaribbons" but again, as there was no transformer, these are not ribbons. Just prior to the "Dynaribbon" was the original FF2 series with regular cone mid range, primarily or exclusively WCF Versa Tronics brand sourced from Asia. Over FF series lifetime tweeter array evolved from dual Focal inverted dome small magnet Kevlar flanking planar super tweeter (no likey) to dual Scan Speak (my suggestion) flanking planar (better) to three spiral planar in a row. IIRC all true ribbon mid and Neo planar mids employed three spiral planar tweeters. I disliked all Dynaribbon models for too much upper mid low treble energy. Maybe re-worked with a LP series coil added to the Dynaribbons would work. A planar has a conductive material (voice coil) atop a non-conductive substrate (plastic, etc) which is the diaphragm. The resulting voice coil resistance is high enough to directly couple to an amplifier. A true ribbon is distinguished by a one-piece combination conductive diaphragm and voice coil, with resulting resistance so low that it requires an impedance matching transformer to couple to a power amplifier.The first and current large Heil Air Motion Transformer is a true folded ribbon as identified by the transformer. Smaller AMT drivers appearing on many modern speaker designs (Legacy, GoldenEar, Adam, Heil, etc, etc) have no transformer and are hence folded planar types, not true ribbons.
I've seen pictures describing what Patrick mentioned. I 'think' it was a custom variation of the FF3 SRE. Probably after Brian switched from BG panels, to the Sonigistix Neo, resulting in not too many of the FF3 SRE Neo speakers. There was even a pair on Audiogon once, where the owner stated his speakers were custom modded by Brian, and from his pictures, it would have matched Patrick's "animal".From what I remember, at least...Something like this:Combined with this:Where the BG was replaced with the Neo Panels, in the 2nd picture.Hope this helps!
