Nola Metro Grand Gold 2. Nola uses a 4 inch ribbon tweeter sourced from Raal. They reach high frequencies like I’ve never heard. Very detailed but never harsh
What speaker has the best high frequencies?
I have a Spatial Audio X5 with a wide band horn loaded AMT (Air Motion Transformer) which handles high frequencies (1k and up?). It is big, about 6” x 1”. I feel it is much better than the 1” tweeter found in most speakers. I honestly don’t know how this AMT is different from, say, ribbon tweeter. This leads me to think, who or what speaker has the best high frequencies? I heard good things about the B&W diamond tweeter, but it is still a 1” tweeter. What else is out there? I think size makes a difference. In this case, is it a larger ribbing tweeter better than most 1” tweeters?
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X3-06 EXOTIC T35
But I have heard them also with a solid copper modified baffle. SEASExotic-T35Tweeters(CopperFaceplate) The brass terminals were replaced with copper tubes, and the leads crimped and soldered. 1500-25KHz |
Having heard several variants on plasma and ion speakers back in the very early days of HP's Absolute Sound evaluations (back when the "magazine" was little more than a dozen pages, stapled and folded). I'd have to say that they reign supreme; however, they have never been practical commercially. Of those designs that have survived as commercial products, electrostats (martinlogan, dayton-wright, others) and magnetic ribbons (Heil, Magnepan - different, yet similar in principle) are probably the best. I fell in love with the original CLS speakers playing string quartets when I first heard them. And, I owned a pair of Monolith III's that I bi-amped using the Dahlquist DQ-LP1 active crossover. |
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