Tekton tweeter design

erik

I am not sure how you could possibly assume that a large number of tweeters is going to narrow the dispersion….I was watching a nice story about how they were able to photograph a black hole . With telescopes in Antartica, Chile and a number of other countries. They had to focus the incoming radiation….well they used extremely sophisticated devices to accomplish that feat. Not sure a bunch of tweeters is going to focus quite that well.

I do like the " box fee " sound of ESL's but to my ears the focus seems to move around. An analogy would be watching a 3D movie, a good 3D movie. Not quite real and a little shaky. The attraction for most is the unboxed sound and not the " pin point " imaging.

Not sure how you might conclude that the performance of each tweeter might "best" that of much more high end tweeters.

I am not sure how you could possibly assume that a large number of tweeters is going to narrow the dispersion…

I'm not assuming, I am estimating. It's called physics. The larger the effective radiating surface, the lower the frequency at which beaming occurs. Basic principle of driver and speaker design.  See the analysis over at DIYaudio which includes the drivers, crossovers, and beaming.

Not sure how you might conclude that the performance of each tweeter might "best" that of much more high end tweeters.

What I said was much more nuanced than this, but if you believe that MSRP = High End, we will have to disagree forever. What I actually said was:

[Tweeters used by Tekton] are relatively inexpensive soft domes, but very nicely performing. Probably perform much better than a lot of micro-motor tweets in famous named kilobuck speakers out there.

Yes, I said they are high value and there are some tweeters out there I really don't like, which are those used by Focal and B&W with tiny motors. I stand by that. I don't like the sound of them and never will, when compared to a well made, full motor version even at these value prices. If Tekton charged 10x what they do, would you suddenly call them high end?



Best,

E

BTW, I use a version of a ring radiator previously used by Krell, Sonus Faber, Magico and YG Acoustics in my desktop monitors. It's not that much more expensive (at least at retail) than the tweeters Tekton is using.


My point is, judging performance on price alone is really not a good idea.