Viawave SRT-7 tested

rjj45

HiFi Compass completed a round of testing on the Viawave SRT-7, successor to the GRT-145.
He loves it....
https://hificompass.com/en/reviews/viawave-srt-7-ribbon-tweeter

dcibel

Yes, a well performing ribbon, perfectly usable down to 2kHz which can't be said for a lot of them.

Hificompass also tested the smaller RT850 some time ago, however I thought its performance was lacking for any reasonably high SPL, where the SRT7 doesn't have any issue.

https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/viawave/viawave-srt-7

https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/viawave/viawave-rt850

That said, the distortion tests on a RAAAAL weren't super impressive to me either:

https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/raal/raal-70-20xr

R-Carpenter

RT-850 was mainly designed as a smaller format tweeter for 3-way loudspeaker. SRT7 is a beast and can cross to a 6" or 7" woofer.