Optimus 400 with ribbon tweeter?

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Hi all.

As long as I'm on a ribbon tweeter roll... :D

Saw some Optimus 400 speakers at the thrift today; 3-ways, nice looking cabs, cheesy looking woofs and mid, with a ribbon tweeter. Tweeters look quite nice, and the fellow let me grab the pair for pretty cheap. Wondering if anyone knows who made these tweeters for RS?

Some old ePay auction has a description that says these were manufactured by Pioneer, but I don't know about that. :rolleyes: Back of these says ET-1, 7 ohms, 40w max, Japan. Any ideas, guys? I'd post pics, but am at work. Here's a couple from "that site":

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Lot's of tweeters have the ribbon look to them, most are not true ribbons or in a lot of cases even close to being ribbons. The HPM series is full of these ribbon look alikes.
 
I was always under the impression that it was a JVC tweeter, but then maybe that was a different model. Sounded quite nice as I recall.
 
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