High quality tweeter

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Posted by layman on July 27, 2002 at 14:42:44

In Reply to: Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? posted by twhaase on July 27, 2002 at 13:14:01:

When you do get around to "upgrading" your speakers, you'll probably have quite a range of extended response models to choose from. The British loudspeaker companies seem to be taking the issue quite seriously and currently KEF, B&W and Tannoy all have extended response models. Tannoy (to my knowledge) are the first company to design and market a mid-price extended response range, the Eyris series.

The Eyris series is an interesting one, because Tannoy have not simply bolted on a super tweeter, but actually replaced the original tweeter with their metal dome super tweeter (which is mega-expensive as an add on unit). The thing that really excites me about this approach is that in order to get the tweeter to produce these hypersonic frequencies (without compromising the bottom part of the tweeter's passband), the actual structure of the tweeter must be drastically improved. This new tweeter is a very high quality unit. The motor stucture has been improved to produce extended frequency response. The dome itself is much thinner than that in an ordinary tweeter, which in addition to providing extended frequency capability, also helps the dome resist the low (treble) frequency ringing that's common to ordinary metal domes. The structure of the new metal dome provides better self-damping. The hyper-tweeter should sound much, much cleaner than an ordinary unit as a result, because unlike frequencies above 20 kHz, we all have very sensitive hearing in the 3-8 kHz passband.

Tannoy are offering a very high quality tweeter on a budget model. SACD is leading to improvements in the physical design of speakers. This is exciting news even to those people who do not plan to upgrade to SACD anytime soon.

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Topic - 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - twhaase 08:45:03 07/27/02 (26)

I'm willing to bet... - BrassMonkey 10:58:35 07/30/02 (0)

This is silly... - JonB 17:03:09 07/28/02 (5)

Re: This is silly... - Pat D 05:30:41 07/29/02 (4)

Re: This is silly... - JonB 07:02:54 07/29/02 (3)

Re: This is silly... - Pat D 12:51:30 07/29/02 (2)

No it isn't - Ross 13:55:38 07/29/02 (1)

Re: No it isn't - Pat D 14:09:52 07/29/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - BTW 17:31:37 07/27/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - tomcat 16:28:08 07/27/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - Todd Krieger 13:29:55 07/27/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - twhaase 13:14:01 07/27/02 (2)

High quality tweeter - layman 14:42:44 07/27/02 (1)

Re: High quality tweeter - ka7niq 05:14:14 07/29/02 (0)

OK, My Dog Insists I Do this Upgrade Also, Will DVD-A ... - 2x6spds 12:43:48 07/27/02 (0)

Do yourself a favor... - R. Hertz 12:34:37 07/27/02 (0)

The beat goes on - Duke 10:52:06 07/27/02 (6)

Trumpets at 34khz? - airtime 14:58:31 07/27/02 (5)

With a Harmon mute, significant energy up to 100 kHz!! - Duke 15:31:44 07/27/02 (4)

Re: With a Harmon mute, significant energy up to 100 kHz!! - Pat D 17:37:56 07/29/02 (0)

Re: With a Harmon mute, significant energy up to 100 kHz!! - TOOL 02:32:12 07/28/02 (0)

BFD... - Bare 22:24:28 07/27/02 (1)

??? - Duke 01:52:39 07/28/02 (0)

And don't forget the degeneration of the low frequencies too - airtime 09:57:36 07/27/02 (1)

Re: And don't forget the degeneration of the low frequencies too - libor 11:35:43 07/27/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - 2x6spds 09:51:54 07/27/02 (0)

Re: 20khz to 50khz upgrade? - Bare 09:37:06 07/27/02 (0)

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High quality tweeter - layman 14:42:44 07/27/02 (1)

Re: High quality tweeter - ka7niq 05:14:14 07/29/02 (0)

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