Genesis Advanced Technologies 2JR - Manual (Page 20)

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confuse your hearing, the program source emerges more clearly.
Imaging is deeper, yet more focused.
This results in a loudspeaker system that is virtually room-
independent. Also, because there are no phase and frequency
distorting reflections created, one can be transported into the
audience of the actual concert hall where the music was recorded.
The Genesis Ribbon Tweeter
Reviewers in the Audiophile press have often remarked that the
Genesis circular ribbon tweeter is the world’s best. It is a one inch
circular planar ribbon design crafted from an extremely thin
membrane of Kapton with a photo-etched alumin
ium “voice coil”
that is a mere 0.0005 inch thick. The entire radiating structure has
less mass than the air in front of it! That is why it will accurately
reproduce frequencies to 40 kHz.
The result of this design is a driver that has a rapid and
uniform response to high frequencies, and has the speed of
the best ribbon/electrostatic designs without the high
distortion and poor dispersion that is typically associated
with them.
The G2jr uses twelve of these tweeters configured as a
vertical line source. Because the output is distributed over
many drivers, each works at very low-stress. This
dramatically lowers the distortions in the high frequencies.
The G2jr also use three rear-firing tweeters per channel wired to
the crossover out of phase to the front tweeters creating a dipole.
48inch midrange ribbon
We sometimes say that the midrange is a window into the mind of
a composer or a singer. And indeed, the midrange is where the
“magic” is in a well-recorded musical event. This is why the G2jr
loudspeaker system uses a single 48inch-long ribbon per channel
as a dipolar line-source to reproduce these critical frequencies.
The midrange ribbon used in the G2jr
is manufactured to Genesis’
exacting specifications. The ribbon itself is made of a very thin layer
of aluminium laminated to a substrate of mylar that is 0.001inch
thick. The ribbon is then suspended in the magnetic field created
by over 24 feet of barium ferrite magnets.