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Grateful Dead

Two custom Alembic / Hard Truckers ribbon tweeters, manufactured for the Grat✨eful Dead

Black painted pine speaker enclosures (6.5 x 9.75 x 5.75”), hand assembled ribb🌌on tweeters. Overall worn.

While ribbon tweeters have a high frequency respons𓆉e that’s significantly more detailed than traditional drivers, they require much more cost and effort to manufacture and maintain; they can also be hard to match to amplifiers and require very low impedance. The present pair are a prime example of the Dead experimenꦏting with what would be seen by some as a needlessly difficult set up in order to achieve the best possible live audio, resulting in a maximally delicate, upper range resolution.