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This type of tweeter must be experienced in a proper high-end audio system to be understood in my humble opinion. Why? Because it is not just a high-frequency reproducer like a dome or smaller ribbon tweeters. The Magnepan ribbon covers a very wide range of frequencies, from 40kHz to below 2kHz to be exact. Going down to 2kHz is quite low for a tweeter yet it never seems to suffer from breakup as I have heard from lesser drivers. What does this all mean to you? It means incredibly smooth upper-frequency reproduction without all those peaks and dips due to crossover parts or horribly designed crossover networks getting in the way of the music. In fact, the crossover for the 3.6 is extremely well designed and the icing on the cake is that it presents an almost flat 4 Ohm load to your amplifier.

I make no secret that my favorite inexpensive (around $2,400 when new, now available used for under $1,000) dynamic cone speaker is the KEF 104/2. This speaker, like the 3.6 presents a very flat 4 Ohm impedance curve. What seems to happen in Audiophile Land is that once someone buys a speaker with a wide impedance curve they are forever going to Amplifier City buying new boxes. This can also usually be said about speakers that use very complicated crossover networks. If you can not count the individual crossover parts on two hands I try to strictly avoid these designs in general. Maybe my experiences are different than yours, yet in-home auditioning over ten different speakers within this past year has taught me something (I hope). Beware of wide impedance curves and complicated crossovers! This way may lead to Audiophile Neverosa. 

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