I gre out of Be Tweeters

If things keep heading in the current directions, I could consider dumping amplifiers altogether at some point in favor of active speakers with all the goodies built in, but only if the cost of replacement when something goes wrong is not too high.

My first tally in that area is the pair of very impressive for the size and cost Vanatoo Transparent One Encore speakers I recently put in my wife’s very acoustically challenged sun-room. They sound really good in there (as they have when I have heard them at shows past) and easy as pie to set up.

I’ll probably continue with passive speakers for the foreseeable future unless maybe Ohm Acoustics comes up with an affordable pair of powered Walshes with all the goodies baked in like the Vanatoos.

I can't think of any audio technology I've fully turned against, but in reaching for something:   Electrostatic speakers.
Loved the Quad 63s I had for a while, and I've heard tons of other electrostatics (and hybrids), and in almost all cases they became a no-go technology for me.  I could never be satisfied once that "ghostly" un-dynamic aspect of the sound became apparent to me.
I really enjoy listening to electrostatics when the opportunity presents itself.   But I'd never buy one at this point.

With One Big Exception:   The ESL 57s.   Those are the only electrostatic I'd love to own (but as an additional speaker, not my central listening speaker).
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i gave up on the etch a sketch.....

and truth be told trying to get all 4 ESL and decca ribbons to work together.....let alone the Hartley subs...
the big Infinity had similar issues with woofer tower placement..argh...

In thinking about your answers, and my own experience, I have to restate my original post.
There are tweeters sporting a wide range of technology I like, including Be, but the sound I heard from the first, micro-motor Be tweeters is something I have completely outgrown.


I was entranced by the waterfall plots, which are very very good for Be, but ignored that what I was hearing was also the metal dome character of them. Something several modern Be tweeters have overcome.

I also realized, after posting, that there's some technology which I may like some examples of and not others. AMT tweeters for instance, share an almost mythical story, and can be had from $5 each to $500 or more each. They are by no means the same, and I've heard some speakers with them I liked and some I truly could not listen to.

I never cared for porters until one day in Winthrop tried their Bulls Tooth Porter. Freaking amazing. Turned friends onto it, they all loved it too. Even people who never liked dark beer. And this was VERY dark beer! But awesome!

Spent pretty much my whole life looking down on lagers. Anything light, really. Even as a teen, never cared for em. Till one day, Scuttlebutt Trippel Seven. Pretty darn light, yet somehow rich and creamy and full-bodied. Wish the Bulls Tooth was still around but at least we still have the Trippel Seven.

Not sure what this is good for other than to expend a few more milliwatts and eat up a few more bits on the interwebs, but what you said about technology, what you're talking about is the difference between technology or design and implementation, the particular details of how the technology or design is brought to fruition.

Rear engine technology for example is such an awful approach no one does it any more. Except Porsche, who somehow has managed to make the worst design into the best car in the world, a fact they have proven again and again for an incredible 60 years now.