Experience with adding super tweeter?


Back in the old days, I loved the concept of a superfast ribbon tweeter for example in a 4 way (above 5kHz). Not the term super tweeter is found more and more often. And even 'add on' are availble (example below). 

Has someone experimented with adding a supertweeter?

Impressions? Comments? 

kraftwerkturbo

Soundstage became more expansive and enveloping, in particular with the dipole supertweeter, which was really nice. On the other hand, the precision of the imaging decreased iirc (not 100% sure on this one). There was a pervasive sense of diminished temporal precision, though, what I called transient blurring in the previous post. The bad effects were less significant the higher was the crossover set, so I preferred it at 16 kHz for the most part, but they were still there.

By the way, positioning mattered.

For test purposed (proof of concept), would it be sufficient to get my hands on a 'super tweeter' (ribbon, similar) and make a simple 6 db/oct high path (with various crossover points to play with)? 

I guess it depends on the way your system sounds. Does it lack air?

I have owned the Townshend super tweeters when I owned the Eggelston Works Andra 2 speakers. These speakers had the Esotar tweeters that some raved about, but I thought they lacked the "air". The Townshend's improved the sound immensely.

And if I remember them correctly, I think you can select the crossover and sound level.

ozzy

I use a pair pf Muratar ES 103b with Duevel Bella Luna: provided you get millimeter precise positioning in phase with the rest of the speaker diaphragms the resulting increase in depth of soundstage and definition of the entire frequency spectrum including bass is nothing less than astounding. The other thing to watxh out for is obviously efficiency, where Duevel and Murata are close enough.,I have no experience with attenuators although they are needed where that condition isn‘t met. In any case well worth the experiment