Fritz vs CSS vs Ryan

I had the Carrera’s and could not tame the beryllium tweeter. Harsh and bright in more than a few song segments.

Two different houses, three different rooms. This was with Odyssey Audio hot rodded Khartago amp and Candela pre with Amperex 7316 pq tubes. Also had Ascend Acoustics Sierra2’s with a RAAL ribbon tweeter with same gear. Sweet as could be.

I personally would go with the Carbons. Beryllium just not for me. With that gear anyway.

@temmple

I’ve owned Carrera BE’s with the Transducer Labs tweeter for about two years now and my advice to you is that if you have any hesitancy at all about the Be tweeter sound then opt for the Carbon 7 SE or the Rev 7 SE which both have Scan Speak dome tweeters. The Rev 7 SE will be the closest to the Carrera’s in terms of driver quality in that it uses the same woofer as the Carrera and a top line Illuminator tweeter. A bit less in price than the Carrera.  Any of the three will be fine with the Kinki as I powered mine with the same Kinki as did Fritz himself at one time. 

The Illuminator is a great fabric dome tweeter which I have had in two pair of different speakers I have owned.

It's interesting that Ryan is in this mix for consideration. They made a big splash years ago but I haven't heard much of them for the last couple of years. I also was surprised that hilde45 was having second thoughts about not having kept the Fritz speakers. That should be considered a good endorsement.

@jackd I just noticed that the Carbon used to have the ScanSpeak 1 inch Ring Radiator tweeter and now uses 1" ScanSpeak Textile Diaphragm. I wonder how the ring tweeter sounded with the Carbon? Is one better than the other?

I'm a recent owner of the Fritz Carrera BE's.   I could not be happier.  Fritz is a great guy and loves talking speakers. I'm a big fan of the beryllium tweeter.  Highly recommended. Mine took 50+ hours to break in, and I still think they're not done.  They sounded really good out of the box, but now exceptional.