[frabert]

No, a ribbon microphone is sort-of a dual of a dynamic microphone if you squint hard enough. An electrostatic speaker is closer to the inverse of a condenser (capacitor) microphone

[yetihehe]

Just to add: inverse of ribbon microphone is ribbon speaker [1].

[1] https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/pauls-posts/how-a-ribbon-speak...

[BJones12]

Thank you. I've dabbled in audio for 25 years and had no idea these existed.