@shadorne
I take exception to your claims about AMT’s compressing.
The real problem is, like many technologies, there are AMT’s and then there are AMT’s! Just like any speaker technology, no 1 aspect of a tweeter can tell you if it’s good or not. There are very very good Be tweeters but most are mediocre, as is the case for ANY other type of tweeter.
I have measured AMT’s from a top-end manufacturer and they are among the very best drivers in the world, ESPECIALLY when it comes to compression and time domain problems. They are also very flat and well behaved electrically.
Now, I am a fan of Monitor Audio for their engineering and price, but I have never heard or measured their latest. What I am most impressed with in the PL200 however is their step response. Absolutely outstanding for a non-time coincident 3-way.
Also, Monitor Audio doesn’t play the same frequency games Wilson/B&W/Focal/GE do. No dip at 2.4k and they use a very smooth instead of ragged tweeter which is in vogue and touted by some reviewers as most revealing. Kill me, they sound horrid to me.
Now, which of these should YOU buy?? I have no opinion, but I would not discount AMT’s at all. The very best AMT's hold their own against the very best of any other tweeter technology in time domain, frequency domain, distortion and lack of compression.
Best,
E
I take exception to your claims about AMT’s compressing.
The real problem is, like many technologies, there are AMT’s and then there are AMT’s! Just like any speaker technology, no 1 aspect of a tweeter can tell you if it’s good or not. There are very very good Be tweeters but most are mediocre, as is the case for ANY other type of tweeter.
I have measured AMT’s from a top-end manufacturer and they are among the very best drivers in the world, ESPECIALLY when it comes to compression and time domain problems. They are also very flat and well behaved electrically.
Now, I am a fan of Monitor Audio for their engineering and price, but I have never heard or measured their latest. What I am most impressed with in the PL200 however is their step response. Absolutely outstanding for a non-time coincident 3-way.
Also, Monitor Audio doesn’t play the same frequency games Wilson/B&W/Focal/GE do. No dip at 2.4k and they use a very smooth instead of ragged tweeter which is in vogue and touted by some reviewers as most revealing. Kill me, they sound horrid to me.
Now, which of these should YOU buy?? I have no opinion, but I would not discount AMT’s at all. The very best AMT's hold their own against the very best of any other tweeter technology in time domain, frequency domain, distortion and lack of compression.
Best,
E