Nothing is sturdier than a ring radiator


Among high end tweets the ring radiator is as sturdy as they come.  The only other tweets I know of as sturdy are the high end AMTs.

Be?  Diamond? Ceramic? Forget about it.  Ring's' reign supreme.
erik_squires
You guys are really rummaging around in the garbage. The best tweeter is no tweeter. ESLs rule. 
Ok you and I are on the same page
JBL is replaced by the BEYMA Compression Horn tweeter. 
104db sens.
Yes sir, 
She's a  beauty.
any compression horn, does not matter (high fidelity type, not car audio crap) beats any dome, ribbon, etc etc tweeter.
This is what I am trying to get over on this board.
Im my book the only tweeter consideration is compression TI Horn tweeter,,all others do not even exist in my book.
Troels Gravesen is building <,dinasaurs >> in his lab. 
https://usspeaker.com/beyma%20CP25-1.htm
I had the chance to talk to an engineer from Raal a couple of years ago. Brilliant guy.  One of the great features of the Raal true ribbons is they can alter the transformers to suit, and you can use 1st order high pass filters if you would like.

Anyway, he was very interested in the Mundorf performance and he walked me through how to measure it, especially compression and distortion.  We both agreed the Mundorf is pretty spectacular a performer. If you want to dig up that conversation it is somewhere at DIYaudio.
@erik_squires --

Just a reminder that the subject of this thread was reliability. :)

As in, exposed to what - time, power, pokey fingers? In these areas regardless nothing beats a compression driver; its diaphragm in concealed inside the whole of its mechanism, they usually take a lot of power (while not least being the most efficient driver type to turn it into actual sound), dissipate heat effectively, and are extremely reliable even after decades of close to abusive use.