In Reply to: line array - use single tweeter? Any 1st hand experience? posted by topogon on November 5, 2006 at 22:21:57:
...in an 8-driver line array, dipole and open baffle. Here's the 1st ProtoType.
It had one 1"-dome tweeter and enough treble energy, but it was definitely missing something...some life?...in the highs. The 2nd PT added some bass drivers, and I also tested the inexpensive ($29 in quantity) Dayton mag.-planar tweeter. I ordered more of those and am just now assembling PT 3, which will contain a linearray of 8 tweeters.Notice the empty channel for the tweeters.
We'll see, probably later today--Monday.
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