@tomcy6 - thank you for the civil response. Something that seems to be lacking these days.
If I get a chance to do some relaxed listening I will and I am looking forward to a day when I can spend some time with the M series from Magico.
What is fascinating and i learned this through some recent testing. I held everything constant except the cabinet material. In a cabinet that was less rigid, the same driver, tweeter crossover combo was dead and lacked detail.
The solution to this is to tweak the resistor and one of the capacitors in the crossover. This increases the output slightly offsetting the lack of damping and the net effect sounds very good but makes the tweeter bright. If the cabinet is very poorly damped you have to adjust a lot.
My hunch is is that the worst offenders (products will remain unnamed) have poorly damped cabinets and need to make bigger adjustment to their crossover which is why I hate them so much.
And why something like the Magico S line sounds so good because the cabinets are heavily damped and the crossover values are closer to optimal.
My hunch is, the Magico M line is going to be as close as a beryllium tweeter will get to absolute perfection. I am hoping someone at Capital Audiofest has them so I can hear them.
for a stand-mount mine are very good and for my taste, are 99% perfect. I am looking at two materials that will be significantly stiffer and potentially offer better damping compared to the Carbon Fiber sandwich panels I am using and I am looking at three tweeters that will crossover at a more optimal point.
One will I’ll be a ribbon, one will be diamond and one will be beryllium. That last 1% to perfection will come at a price though as I expect these standmount speakers to retail at $15k to $20K when done.
If I get a chance to do some relaxed listening I will and I am looking forward to a day when I can spend some time with the M series from Magico.
What is fascinating and i learned this through some recent testing. I held everything constant except the cabinet material. In a cabinet that was less rigid, the same driver, tweeter crossover combo was dead and lacked detail.
The solution to this is to tweak the resistor and one of the capacitors in the crossover. This increases the output slightly offsetting the lack of damping and the net effect sounds very good but makes the tweeter bright. If the cabinet is very poorly damped you have to adjust a lot.
My hunch is is that the worst offenders (products will remain unnamed) have poorly damped cabinets and need to make bigger adjustment to their crossover which is why I hate them so much.
And why something like the Magico S line sounds so good because the cabinets are heavily damped and the crossover values are closer to optimal.
My hunch is, the Magico M line is going to be as close as a beryllium tweeter will get to absolute perfection. I am hoping someone at Capital Audiofest has them so I can hear them.
for a stand-mount mine are very good and for my taste, are 99% perfect. I am looking at two materials that will be significantly stiffer and potentially offer better damping compared to the Carbon Fiber sandwich panels I am using and I am looking at three tweeters that will crossover at a more optimal point.
One will I’ll be a ribbon, one will be diamond and one will be beryllium. That last 1% to perfection will come at a price though as I expect these standmount speakers to retail at $15k to $20K when done.