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So tweeters are the hardest to build because they are "high" frequency and directional because of that. The diaphragm can't weight anything or you will get distortion. Subwoofers are the hardest because the waves are so long and bounce around and require so much power. The midrange is also the hardest because we actually hear midrange good and care about phase and frequency response. It's all a mess but we can't get enough of it.

I'd like some commentary on the Air Motion Transformer tweeter/midranges as originally patented by Dr. Oskar Heil.

I've had all types, but much prefer AMTs for long listening sessions. Not fatiguing at all, but natural as can be.

One thing to note is that the B&W tweeter came a long way since it's inception. With the right electronics it achieves what no other tweeter can.

I love the mentioning of the plasma tweeter. I remember this from the 80's when Magnat came out with it. It sounded fantastic but the demo room smelled of ozone. It that the reason why plasma tweeters have all but disappeared? Other than that, I have never seen a bad video with Chris, thumbs up on this one as well.

The uni-q driver in the Kef Blades is the most stunning tweeter I've ever heard - it also a single apparent sound sound which somehow has stereo imaging and a single point source...I don't get it but it sounds phenomenal

My first speaker and favorite tweeter from the early 1970s was the ESS Heil AMT1 which defined the company (still in production as the classic in limited edition). The sound of female vocals were crystal clear, very musical and emotional for the listener. Today, so many manufacturers in designs are now using ribbon or AMT tweeters including PS Audio in their future offering?

Dome tweeters are the gold standard when you love to hear distortion levels above 10%. I guess it is exceptionally satisfying for electronic manufacturers when they try to have a nice K2 distortion pattern and then the dome tweeter kills it completely. But yes the 1 grand beryllium or diamond membranes help to make the tweeters 2 cent surround sound a lot better. In the 60s we had paper cone tweeters that costs about 5 bucks, these guys sound seriously better than 95% of modern dome tweeters.

Hi Paul . wish all the best to you guys. I am from Hong Kong and PS audio power planet is popular here. I guess you guys talking abt X&X brand. I definitely agree that is for AV amp and movie. I cannot withstand that for over 15mins of listening even i have mcintosh amp that is treble rolloff. Excuses for my poor English. I even found Found out a budget wharfdale Evo4.2 sounds AMT tweeter in more reasonable with half price of X&X in sort of similar quality price ratio. Keep safe!

Silky dome tweeters are probably the best all rounder without spending up big ... they are lossy and non resonant ( not in their operating range anyway ) My personal favourite is the highly expensive Dynaudio Esotar which is an elliptical pressurised dome in which the pressure is modulated by the audio signal ... they cost over $9000 each

Ribbon (and electrostatic) tweeters are not merely about having a low-mass moving element. Another significant advantage is the fact that the entire radiating surface is driven with consistent force, rather than just the perimeter. This largely avoids time delay or phase shift across the radiator, reducing distortion, improving transient response and avoiding perturbations in frequency response. The video title should have been "a few brief comments on tweeters" as it omitted some important classes, and hardly qualifies as even an introduction to a vast discipline.

A/D/S have beautiful sounding mids and tweets

There is so much more involved than just the dome

Audio here is so realistic, I am outside and I was looking around for the car horns and beeps xD

I love german tweeters, dull sounding tweeters from many expensive speaker builders don't give you the real experience. cymbal's sound bright in real so they should also sound bright over speakers and not dull.....sit for 30 minutes in front of a guy playing a drum kit without amplification and try to find that same sound back over your speakers ....concentrate only on the sound of the drum kit you hear, especially the cymbal's...there is not one tweeter what come even close

The waterfall plots are the most important measurements for a tweeter imo... this is where you can see if it is ringing or not.. I'd take a tweeter that does not even go up to 20k over a BE driver that goes to 30k and rings like a bell.

Was very happy with modifying my L100 Centuries with soft dome tweeters

I just installed a morel soft dome tweeter to replace a horn loaded compression tweeter and it is night and day as far as harshness. The soft dome sounds like a high frequecy midrange. I think anthony faucci uses a face diaper to keep all the noise out of his system. According to many self-sponsored studies, wearing a face diaper proves to keep all noise out of sound systems even though there has never been any proof of it.

Thanks for sharing what do you think Of the old JBL 075 & 077 tweeters?

Never have people endured waiting for a speaker with so much teasing talk before the launch. Nice to know we will get great ribbon tweeters.

Not all tweeters are stiff silk Dome plastic type rubber gel retweeters are not stiff and to say ribbon tweeters have less mass I don't believe so I think there's more mess more material has to be more mass not less in a ribbon tweeter plasma tweeter is the most accurate. That's what you should have put in yours with the ribbon mid-range around it centre horn would work very well

Did Paul really said Gucci tweeters😆

For me, once you hear planar tweeters, there is no turning back, especially for the types of music that are demanding in terms of timbre accuracy, such as classical or jazz. For mid-highs, under 2K, I prefer horns.

Chris touches on a prime product motivation, "... a marketing one, to be different...." If all speakers sounded about the same, buyers would just choose the cheapest -- a disaster for the manufacturers and brands. A marketers' worst nightmare: *the race to the bottom.*

Gucci tweeters. Then Louis Vuitton tweeters. Great analogy.

I was looking for information on phase shields. I ruined a couple of $200 tweeters playing my guitar ( big mistake) And replaced with $ 20 with phase shield. Seem to be a bit quieter.

I love my wifes Tweeters! She has a pair of Sunfire CRS - 3C's - Uses the centers for mains and the Ribbon Tweeters are Great with the 4 drivers....

B&W tweeters with proper cap sound great .... it takes 150usd for caps 😉

Rhaido tweeters are the best i heard so far! nothing comes close, by a large margin!

What actually dictates the speed of a woofer or sub woofer. The magnet or magnets. Thickness of the wire in the voice coil. Or how it is wound. Cone material??????

Soft dome tweeters dominate in home audio (great sound, very affordable but delicate). Horns dominate in PA (robust loud)The fundamental engineering issue in a tweeter diaphragm is balancing weight, stiffness and internal intrinsic damping. Fabric domes are my favourite - they sacrifice a little in high frequency extension but are intrinsically damped and sound much better in the range that I actually care about 3000-12,000Hz (with nice clean waterfall plot on SEAS Millennium for example ). AMT or ribbon style tweeters aren’t robust or powerful enough for far field work and end up creating comb filtering when aligned in a multiple transducer array. Comb filtering can be pleasant enough but adding that to everything you are listening too doesn’t work for me (same issue with panel speakers). Ferro-fluid is the biggest issue with standard tweeters - the sound quality doesn’t last more than a year or two as the ferrofluid dries out. Building a tweeter without ferry-fluid is possible but it is very expensive as tolerances need to be very tight and a double spider is the only way to prevent rocking without the VC centring effect of ferrofluid (ferrofluid is such a cheap way to make a good sounding tweeter it dominates) Tweeters suffer from the age old engineering piston problem (a piston length should be more than 1.5 times its diameter in order to not suffer from rocking).

B&W makes the some of the best tweeters at almost every price point.

So much is the xover. Avoid the tweeter fs for power handling regardless of material and integration with the upper midrange of the woofer/midrange.

would that british company be KEF? why has nobody done a full review of the kef hometheater series. How does it compare to a jbl sythesis and martin logan inwalls with the ribbon tweeters? is it possible to get the same surround imaging they claim from a far less expensive product?

is this a series? all about tweeters and only talked about diaphragms.. voice coils? ceramic? piezo?

😢 I literally thought I was going to hear ALL THINGS TWEETER in five minutes. -✌🏼

Loved this talk on tweeters. The last set of speakers that I designed and built are using Focal inverted dome tweeters with phase plug. I was a little hesitant about the inverted dome as I had heard that they tend to be beamy. I don’t find them noticeably beamy. Their off axis response doesn’t seem to be any worse than the dome tweeter. Not sure what advantages are claimed for the phase plug but overall I am pleased with the performance of these tweeters. My speakers are two way TL’s with Focal “W” cone 5 1/4” woofers with solid aluminium posts (I believe they also serve as phase plugs? I would be interested in hearing opinions on phase plugs.

I just think most of us can’t hear anything over 14k.

I like the old Advent "fried egg" tweeters.

But what about AMT"S.??? = (

metal guitar strings sound best with metal tweeters bells also

Enjoy my linaeum dipoles.

i though planar is one of the best teknologies now, scalable to midrange down to 100hz and up to tweeter range, durable design, dipole design options. can be made cheaply,

Focal is French IIRC

Thanks for the video guys. I would be interesred to know a little more about your thoughts on beryllium tweeters. Also, is it just me or is Chris a little bit camera shy? As an after thought, don't be shy man. Enter the belly of the beast and own it. You can do it. I know you can. Cheers

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Horn beat all simply.. within very low price...and guess what U don't need to give attention to speaker while listening

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I refuse to be defined by my tweeter

Paul looks but like pizza coil out of get pizza

Shout out to PYE

Would be good if you coukd go into more specific and less general. Very little useful info.