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REVIEW: Focal Tweeter Model T-120 FC Speakers Review by roberts@bandstand productions at Audio Asylum

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Bought 6 sample units for testing and evaluation. Overall a great sounding tweeter simalar to what Wilson uses in their designs. Huge motor assembly and tiny voice coil gives fantastic speed and transparency. Dispersion is good to very good...needs treatment to control dispersion for proper imaging within a system. A felt ring did the trick, and kept standing waves from bouncing back and forth from the flange to the diaphram , Plus giving the window more control. Must be used with at least 12 dB/ octave network. The Voice coil on the torture test (intended to find failure point) opened at 65 watts at 5 KHZ. This tweeter would handle any 500 watt amplifier providing that in a system ; a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th order network is used.(8k, 6k, 4k respectively) Makes a fine super-tweeter above 8 KHZ...but for low crossover frequencies, it is just too fragile. Needs to be used in at least a 3 way or 4 way system, if high dB or large room/ amplifier is used.

I would say that overall this tweeter would give many more expensive tweeters a run for their money, providing that the crossover is carefully orchestrated, and attention to Power handling VS crossover points are observed.

On a 1 to 10....I would rate this tweeter at an 8.5


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