BatSpeakers:
The 2226's cut off at 350Hz have the best sound I've ever heard from them.
The 2123 is the kid in the front row waving his hand in the air; "ooh, ooh, call on me!!!" They definitely need to be padded down a little.A 1 henry series coil didn't do anything but introduce some distortion so I'll try something like a 10 ohm shunt and a 20 or 30 ohm series resistor. It needs to come down about 4 dB.
The Fountek CD-2 ribbon lends some nice air and, I think, a bit of transient oomph way up high on cymbals. hard to tell though with the 'bad boy' waving his hand around.
I wonder if taming the mid-driver was what led Dave Cope to call off his FrankenSpeaker project with the TADs?