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What are Your Favorite Tweeters?

Hi All.  I would like to extend the survey that occurred back in 2008-2012 about favorite tweeter types.  During that survey, folks mentioned: Gallo CDT, various ribbon tweeters (RAAL, Kapton, Legacy), Fostex, Dynaudio Esotar, Heil, Seas Millenium, and various exotics (electrostatic, plasma, compression driver).  I am wondering about ring tweeters, such as the Satori TW29R or the Scanspeak Revelator. I am (personally) looking for something that can fit into a 104mm diameter lip.  But for the big picture, I'd like to know what tweeters you have loved!  I've got Accuton diamond tweeters in my Avalon Eidelons, and I think they are quite delicate and natural sounding.
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verdantaudio
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I love Eton's HD tweeters that are a ceramic and magnesium composite.  They are surprisingly natural sounding given the hard material.  My feeling is they give me the detail of beryllium but without a metallic edge that needs to be dealt with. I use them in my Blackthorn speaker.  

Mundorfs AMTs are brilliant. I have been experimenting with these and detail an imaging is wonderful.  

For lower priced, high mass, you have to love Peerless corundum tweeters.   
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mijostyn
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The ribbon tweeters in the Magnepan 20.7's are very hard to beat, but I can't argue with the high end of the Sound Labs speaker. It is as natural and detailed as I have heard. IMHO point source tweeters make cymbals sound like castanets. 
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ditusa
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JBL 2404H ring radiator tweeter.
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steve59
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The persona be tweeter is revealing without being bright or sibilant, same with the salon 2, the usher dmd, the be in the dsp 7200/8000se meridians is very good and Vienna Acoustics puts a beautiful sounding soft dome in the beethovens. For some reason the ribbon tweeters seem to distort before my hearing rolls off, maybe an off axis thing?
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georgehifi
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Magnat MP-02 Plasma tweeters cannot be matched, not even by esl’s, the plasma gas is the diaphragm so there’s no mass, their FR is out to 1/2megahertz.!!! Ones with horns aren't quite as good, but still better than anything else.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Magnat-Plasma-MP-02-ion-tweeter-massless-air-plasma-speaker-Plasmahochto...

Cheers George
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