Genesis Advanced Technologies G2.2 owner manual 48inch midrange ribbon, Servo-bass Advantage

absolute fidelity

ribbon/electrostatic designs without the high distortion and poor dispersion that is typically associated with them.

The G2.2 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 G2.2 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 G2.2 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 G2.2 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.

This results in a perfect line-source ribbon generating a continuous and perfectly coupled wave front. The benefit of this to the listener is a wide and even horizontal dispersion yielding a large and highly stable sweet spot.

As a line-source dipole, the midrange ribbon has a vertical dispersion pattern identical to that of the line array of tweeters. Thus further insulating the listener from the room’s negative effects, and enhancing the sense of spaciousness and depth.

The Servo-bass Advantage

Very few loudspeakers use servo drive, either because most designers think that it is too difficult to design, too expensive, or because of the extraordinary demands a servo system makes on the amplifier and the transducer. The history of the Genesis servo- system started from the first introduced in the legendary Infinity Servo Statik One in 1968(!) – so we know how to design and build servo systems. The technology has been constantly updated and refined over the past 40 years.

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