I gre out of Be Tweeters

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. 

I may not like Bose products, but no one on earth spends more both on speaker analysis and marketing analysis than they do.

Like them or not, they are a model of having an engineering arm tightly coupled to consumer preference and experience.

I doubt if you can tell one decent tweeter from another if they are competently implemented.  Most audiophiles just can’t stand not changing things.

If you could afford it, diamond tweeters are probably the best. The one from Seas costs around $7K each. Ouch but I wish I could get my hands on a pair :-).

If not, then a high end soft dome from ScanSpeak or Seas can be very good. Good soft domes nowaday (those costing at least $200 or more) really offer the best of both worlds - speed, detail, but with the sweetness that we usually associate with typical soft domes. The ScanSpeak AirCir or Seas Crescendo are actually some of the best in the world. The Crescendo is a bout $350 each and the AirCir is about $200 - $350 depending on specific variation.

Ceramic tweeters may have a lot of details and may have less distortion but I don’t think they have the speed of the soft domes.

I haven’t heard Be dome personally but yeah people say they can have too much detail if not implemented properly.

A good tweeter can elevate the sound to another level.  Of course make sure you have some decent caps for the tweeter xover.

Change to Maggies and you will feel much better at the bar, I promise!