Heads up - BZ Labs CQ-76B for sale

Gowa

Rick has BZ Labs CQ-76B (4 available) $240/pr.

Kornbread

These things seem really odd.  How do they sound?

ani_101

this one seems to reach really low - stable XO point of 1000 hz.... don't really have any application for it, unless XO to a 12" or 15" mid. 

ani_101

The CQ76 with the yellow rival drivers by Curt sounded good - think it was in South Dakota? but that is smaller brother, still stated for a stable XO point of 1500, pretty good compared to other mainstream ribbons unless you are going uber expensive RAAL.

@Gowa do you still have those speakers?

Kornbread

But it's not really a ribbon ... is it.? 

Wolf

It is kind of a voice-coil hybrid design. Have you seen their woofers? Even more strange.... I've not heard one of either yet, and they've been too expensive to try thus far for me.

Gowa

$240 per pair new is expensive?

Wolf

It is when lots of my build have drivers that one channel or both cost less than that. I'm not saying it is an expensive price compared to normal, but I am saying it is expensive as a general driver cost.

dcibel

Tests extremely well for a ribbon, IMO. I guess it's more of a flat cone, flat voice coil tweeter that resembles a ribbon though.

https://audioxpress.com/article/Test-Bench-Bozhen-CQ76-Ribbon-Tweeter

PWRRYD

I heard Curt's MTM's at SD DIY.  They sounded really good.  I didn't care for how the woofers looked, but they sounded good.

Kornbread

dcibel said:

Tests extremely well for a ribbon, IMO. I guess it's more of a flat cone, flat voice coil tweeter that resembles a ribbon though.

https://audioxpress.com/article/Test-Bench-Bozhen-CQ76-Ribbon-Tweeter

Yeah, that's kind of what it looks like to me.