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What are Your Favorite Tweeters?
Hi All. I would like to extend the survey that occurred back in 2008-2012 about favorite tweeter types. During that survey, folks mentioned: Gallo CDT, various ribbon tweeters (RAAL, Kapton, Legacy), Fostex, Dynaudio Esotar, Heil,
Seas Millenium, and various exotics (electrostatic, plasma, compression driver). I am wondering about ring tweeters, such as the Satori TW29R or the Scanspeak Revelator. I am (personally) looking for something that can fit into a 104mm diameter lip. But for the big picture, I'd like to know what tweeters you have loved! I've got Accuton diamond tweeters in my Avalon Eidelons, and I think they are quite delicate and natural sounding.
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VIFA. but, they could use a better crossover freq. a bit bright, but,".so flawless, cymbals, voices, etc. they are nice. Very open and have the Hall effect when listening at low volume, high volumes, they can be a bit of a molar gritting kind. Whatever they are, the Energy RC-70 tweeters, and the rolled off highs about 600mhz, or Mghz, or whatever they are,. the best smooth tweeter I’ve ever listened to. When the morons at Klipsch bought, and ruined the fine Energy brand, I’m glad the price dropped on the rc-70, bought 2 pair. Too bad Klipsch destroyed Energy, they could have learned a thing or 7 from the engineers at Energy. I miss this brand. Heard those veritas 2.? Long time ago, they were something special. My rc-70s’ are to me ,...perfect, no fatigue at all, always smooth, inviting, and I can listen for hours, low volume with Jeff beck, Gary Moore, the midrange is just made for acoustic guitar and voices so well! When jamming forbidden, or Kreator, deicide, megadeth, whatever, the treble is NEVER over right, ever. I love these speakers! The odyssey beryllium, is also amazing, airy, and not that bright, maybe a little on rock and metal, but maybe they are not meant for metal? |
I have experienced many things in my life, but this has redefined what a tweeter can do:Altec 288-16H a la naturelle.... (no horn attached, fire it up to the ceiling). 2Tesla alnico motor driving the diaphragm to less than 0,9mm at peak excursion. At 100dB/m volume the diaphragm moves only a few microns, giving absolutely distortion-free sound, while virtually all tweeters already are into very high distortion at this level. Also, you get that 100dB/m output from 42milliWatts of driving power! Leaving an 1W amp still massively oversized... hey, bring out your 0,5W amplifiers! :) |
Magnat MP-02 Plasma tweeters cannot be matched, not even by esl’s, the plasma gas is the diaphragm so there’s no mass, their FR is out to 1/2megahertz.!!! Ones with horns aren't quite as good, but still better than anything else. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Magnat-Plasma-MP-02-ion-tweeter-massless-air-plasma-speaker-Plasmahochto... Cheers George |
The persona be tweeter is revealing without being bright or sibilant, same with the salon 2, the usher dmd, the be in the dsp 7200/8000se meridians is very good and Vienna Acoustics puts a beautiful sounding soft dome in the beethovens. For some reason the ribbon tweeters seem to distort before my hearing rolls off, maybe an off axis thing? |
I love Eton's HD tweeters that are a ceramic and magnesium composite. They are surprisingly natural sounding given the hard material. My feeling is they give me the detail of beryllium but without a metallic edge that needs to be dealt with. I use them in my Blackthorn speaker. Mundorfs AMTs are brilliant. I have been experimenting with these and detail an imaging is wonderful. For lower priced, high mass, you have to love Peerless corundum tweeters. |
Focal (JM Lab) - Their inverted dome tweeter. I have a pair of JM Lab Mezzo Utopia speakers, which uses a single front firing inverted dome tweeter, and the extension, detail, and smooth sound is very catching. I also have a pair of Von Schweikert VR-6 speakers, and these use a pair of these Focal inverted dome tweeters, one firing forward, and another in a dipole configuration that fires to the rear to create an ambient affect. My VR-6 speakers are heavenly. Their airyness, extension, smooth non-fatiguing sound, and large soundstage is simply fantastic. Beside my Mezzo's are a set of VR-4 SR Mk III using the Dynaudio silk dome tweeter, I think. Oh Lordy! These silk domes, while not as detailed and fine sounding as the Focal inverted domes, they are also very smooth, non-fatiguing, and have such a great airy and expansive soundstage - love these a great deal. |
Speakermaster, The t 35 is a nice tweeter. A local builder finds those and uses them in current project. Another vintage tweeter that he uses is the Jensen RP302. I particularly liked an open baffle system he built with a Jensen M10 fieldcoil fullrange driver and an RP 302 tweeter. But, I am sure the field coil Western Electric 597 tweeter would be a substantial, albeit very expensive, upgrade. This is sort of a dream system for me, although I do not like the inconvenience of having to turn on and adjust power supplies to speakers. |
I was impressed by the Zylon material used on the Yamaha NS5000 tweeter. However, my impression could be a product of the complete speaker package because the mid-range and the 12 inch woofer are also made from Zylon. I am also a big fan of the driver in the RAAL SR1a "earspeakers". I do not consider them headphones because they do not sound like headphones but 2 channel speakers. The detail out of that driver is incredible. |
The great Beyma tweeter in Spatial audio labs X3, X5 speakers is not only a great AMT tweeter but excellent mid band driver from 1khz to past 35 khz , in the vast majority of Loudspeakers the crossover is around 2400 khz right in the heart of the midrange not good at all . With the Beyma with waveguide -0 parts in the critical midband that is why it is so detailed and pure ,and only 2 capacitors in the Xover and -0 resistors.order with the outstanding VH audio Odam capacitors one A fantastic transducer. |
You know the Peerless XT25TG30 and related Scanspeak low end ring radiators are outstanding as well, with narrow dispersion. I should have pointed out that this tweeter or the very closely related Scanspeak Discovery R2604 have shown up in a number of high end speakers including designs from Magico, Sonus Faber and YG. It's super smooth response flat to nearly 30kHz and low distortion help this tweeter punch far far above it's price point. |
Dear @stereo5 @peter_s : ""
The AMT tweeter and silk dome tweeters. " I was exposed maybe 3 times to the AMT ones but other that in my speakers I listened several times silk dome tweeters and are just what you said: " Everything else doesn’t sound real.."" Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
