Bob Cain wrote:

I'll bet that wouldn't be true near a sea shore. I had the
original one panel Magneplanars and they had aluminum wire
on the tweeter that worked great for years until I moved to
a shore house on Dauphin Island in the Gulf of Mexico and
they were each corroded through in one place in a couple of
months. When I set out to repair them about six months
later the breaks were numerous. Replaced it all with fine
copper and Elmer's glue and couldn't hear a difference that
I could remember.

As I recall _all_ of those MG-1 and MG-2 speakers did that. And I don't
know why the wire corroded so quickly, while the metallized film they are
currently using does not.

And I don't know why ribbon mikes don't have ribbon corrosion issues either.
--scott

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