You need to be careful to avoid high frequency fatigue. Fortunately I went back to listen for two hours to a pair of Martin Logan Motion 60’s with ribbon tweeters. To date I have not listened to a better pair of speakers than a pair of SALK Sing3 Encores.
What speaker has the best tweeter?
I love the AMT tweeters in my speakers. They are definitely different from other tweeters I have heard. I enjoy their openness and air. But there are qualities of other tweeters that excel in other ways. Some v pricy speakers use beryllium or diamond or diamond coated beryllium. I see that the price of, Seas I think, diamond tweeter is like $6K a pair. Then ribbons offer used. Not to mention plasma, etc.
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Magnepan owners (and others) think very highly of that company’s current ribbon tweeter, used in the MG3.7i, 20.7, and 30.7. The long-discontinued Tympani T-IV and T-IVa also used an earlier incarnation of basically the same driver. The Townshend Audio Super Tweeter---a pure aluminum genuine ribbon---sounds great (I heard it in use on top---physically and sonically ;-) ---of Magicos), electronics feeding it an ARC Anniversary Reference pre and VTL power amps), as does the NEO3 magnetic-planar tweeter from GR Research. Way back in the 1970’s the RTR ESL tweeter was used in some of the great loudspeakers of the day (the ESS TranStatic, Infinity Servo-Static and 2000A, Wilson WAMM, and Fulton Model J), and still sounds pretty darn good. |
mozartfan1,101 posts07-08-2021 3:32pm I have no idea, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THat guy has no idea, But I di, IMHO the world sbest tweeter , hands down 2md to none, Is the Seas Cresendo, Troels pretty much says its the best tweeter he has ever worked with. ~~~~~~~~~~92.5db sens~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
<<<Don’t know where you get that idea, these are the newest horn loaded ones, but are little colored sounding because, of the horn and don't have a 360 degree radiating pattern https://www.lansche-audio.com/products/plasmatweeter/ Cheers George>>> Searched a little for web links, but this was late 70's/early 80's and all I can find is in German. I lived in Cologne at this time and actually visited the Magnat factory. Learned there that the main function of the wire mesh sphere was to lower ozone emission by establishing a steeper temperature gradient. But the smell was quite obvious and the claim 'below legal limits' applied to a pretty short listening session (30 min I believe) and a ventilated room. Easy to see how this leads to issues in the real world. Magnat discontinued the tweeter although it earned the brand recognition, even admiration as a serious innovator. The press was simply to negative ("Ozonschleuder", something like "ozone pump"); people didn't want them around their kids anymore, and cases of headache/nausea were reported. Later, companies like Plasmatronics used Helium to minimize ozone emissions. The Corona design also successfully suppressed ozone. But Magnat never went back. |
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