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Posted by Romy the Cat on 04-28-2005

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I recently spoke with Paul Eizik regarding the criticality of the open-air mounting of that driver instead of baffle-mounting. I decided to go extreme and to get rid of that plate that I had under the driver no mater now small it was, also I thought to lift the driver up slightly. As the result I came up with new mounting harness for my T350.

EV_T350_NewHarnes.jpg

In the picture the old harness on the left and the not painted prototype of new on one the right. After time-aligning of the “new” driver I played today mono recording for each channel trying to determine which positioning would be better.

Certainly the “new” positioning has less reflection from the mid horn and it produces more auditable “space”. The most fascinating that the “new” positioning yields higher output. The “old” positioning used .2uF cap but at the new positioning I got the same subjective amplitude of HF using .047uF capacitor. Here is where the Gintaras Sakenas’s Teflon caps were quite handy….

It was quite intriguing and very positive result. The concussion of that story is that if you use the Electro-Voice T-350, T35 then stay as further form baffler as possible. Actually, as far as I concern any tweeter and a panel baffle are not big friends but I would not generalize it too widely…

Some useful documents about the EV T350 Tweeters: Page1, Page2

Rgs,
Romy the Cat


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Very interesting application Romy, I really like the adjustment system that you built in. I have some EV tweeters in the shop, never even listened to them. Steve Schell and I haven't gotten to the point of trying tweeters in our field coil system yet, but maybe I should pull these out and give them a try. I think the looks of your horn system is one of the best that I've ever seen.
Rich

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Rich,

if you have T350 (not T35) then it would be shame do not use them. Make sure that they are not ST350 and not 350A 350B or whatever later modification they were. If you did not use the truly wide dispersion driver before then it might take some time to use to how they work with room and with the …. lower octave. 

T350_Done.jpg

I finished my new T350 harnesses and made a picture. It is not time-aligned yet. Also to have an idea how the new harness works with the entire speaker I updated the image in the "My Playback" section of my site.

The Cat


Posted by Roberts on 05-01-2005
Very nice mounting. Hopefully the ridgidity will not cause any other unwanted vibrations from moving the assembly ever so slightly. I doubt it could be heard if so. Having used the T-350 (and t-35) over quite a long period from the mid 70's through the mid 80's, I opted for an open mounting as well. You have yours crossed over quite high into the super tweeter region, I went with 1st order of a 0.7mf cap in my early (long time ago) experiments. I do find that anything below 7K with that unit to be very artificial indeed. Even with 1st order, I see the resoning of the capacitor selection here.

The only thing that a baffle mount can give you is some extended lower frequency information and as we know, this is not a pretty sight with this tweeter.

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A lot of people ask me about those drivers and I’ll try to compile my vision about them. I did try most of the possible tweeters: dome tweeters with cloth cones, varies type of hard metal domes, compression drivers with aluminum, titanium, phenolic and beryllium diaphragms, ribbon tweeters, electrostats, Hales tweeters, piezo tweeters, early version of plasma tweeters…

First, to understand what I mean it would necessary to “get” my requirements to the tweeters. I do not really care about the foolishness that many audio Morons spread about the SACD-compatible tweeters that reportedly go to 60K or 100Khz. Those tweeters are something that completely out of my interest me. What I concerns me is only HOW the tweeter dose 10K-14K. Certainly the sensitively, directivity and the rest are important but this would a different subject that I would not touch not. Second, it is important to acknowledge I use tweeters over 10KHz and I religiously despise any tweeters operating from 3-5K (most of the 2-3 ways box loudspeakers). So, all my future “analyses” is applicable to the tweeters crossed above 10K.

My experience indicates that the best result I was able to get from silk-dome tweeters and compression drivers with phenolic diaphragms. To me all searches for better tweeter concentrated around a proper reproduction of string group. When the entire string group of a full orchestra kicks-in then practically all tweeters do gown despite that those violin not do not even reach the frequencies where tweeters operate. What I mean “tweeters go gown” is following: a half-hundred sting instilments produce a fat lover frequency tone and the tweeters add to this pitch a specific amalgam of glitzy “schmultz”. As the result a violin section sound too sharp and too hi-fi-ish. This artificially-effective pseudo-sound converts the violin tone of Vienna Philharmonic into Leningrad Philharmonic and produces an impressiveness of reproduction instead of the impressiveness of original musicality

Pretty much 3 second of listening of one weepy violin tone of 34 instruments playing together instantaneously allow to discard or accept a tweeter. A violin groups in real live (if they are not Boston Pops) never sound metallic or bright but rather soft and syntactic. The never sound impressive of the do not play imprecise. This “not impressive sound” I was able to get only from the better silk dome (the best) or phenolic tweeters. Unfortunately the silk dome have no sensitively and therefore I stick to the EV 350T with plastic cones.

EV T350 in a way reminds a SET amp that “clips softly”. It does not sound glitzy, aggressive and for many out there who are addicted to the brutal force of JBL-like compression driver the EV T350 might appear “not impressive”. The “audio impressiveness” usually comes from positioning a microphone 3 inches from a violin. This positioning is very nice for recording the Patricia Barber Trios but it is absolutely not appropriate way to listen a serious music. A symphonic orchestra’s sound form a normal listening position, when the orchestra is property integrated and balanced should not sound striking of extraordinary. The impressiveness of orchestra comes from the performing quality not form the sonic grandeur.

The Furtwangler’s Orchestra with Bruno Kittel Chorus in 1942 sounded impressive, probably the more impressive then any other orchestra in 20 century. That impressiveness is true impressiveness based upon a performing mastership not upon the reproductive means. Reproducing a good transfer of this for instance performance of Beethoven IX and adding 1/2dB to properly balance tweeter will severely destroy the impressiveness of Furtwangler’s Orchestra. It will make it slightly faster and slightly sharper and slightly hysteric. Do not forget that we are taking about the recording the hardly when over 10kHz.

I can testify that the majority of audio installations that I heard sounded more “instantaneously impressive” then sound of live orchestra. The poor quality of tweeter is one of the major contributors the HF misery of those installations.

It is hard to explain how a tweeter should be tuned, as there are very-very many variables involved in the tuning. ¼ db matters and if a tweeter ¼ louder then it should be then it will add  “audio impressiveness”. Forget about the “air” and “space”, this is not the job for the tweeters. My inexperience indicted that it is very good to hold tweeter on a “frustration diet”. It means that better result you can get if you underused the tweeter then overuse it.  Run your system without any tweeter and get good sound. Get familiar and comfortable with this sound: it should not frustrate you and it should be musical and self-contained. If the sound is not good enough then change the MF driver. Then, in a couple weeks add a tweeter. Peace your head horizontally at ~ .5M from the tweeter at the same distance from MF driver and begin to add the tweeter output (or raise the value of the cap moving the tweeter dope on the transition slop). Play some slow weepy violin section (Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and etc…) and turning you tweeter up. As soon you hear that Sound become slightly “whiter”, “softer”, “bright”, more or less “busy”, “neurotic”, of more “messy” (you tweeter might not to time aliened) then stop. Form the discovered setting remove approximately 2/3dB and let yourself to listen your playback system like this for a t list 2-3 weeks. Then add or most likely  to remove 1/4-1/2 db and you would be all set.

The rule with the tweeters is very similar like with LF module – if you hear it then it set up too loud. Be advised the practically all capacities the you will be using in your tweeter will change in 3-5 days quilt dramatically. BTW, the T350 would also care a LOT of abuse and the excessive 1db form T350 would be equally musically-damaging as 1/3 dB of JBL-077 or Fostex T90.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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The recent events in my playback made me to think about he new prospective duty of tweeters. Since the Super Melquiades was enlisted for duty the Vitavox S2 got it’s own dedicated amplifier channel and stopped to “see” the coil of upper bass driver. As the result the S2 go up very clean and without it’s own typical idiosyncratic harshness.

For a number of years I use Electro-Voice T350 tweeter that hardly works as tweeter but rather as anti-Vitavox HF modulator. It sits deep in transition slope (somewhere at 60kHz) and it juts slightly soften what S2 driver dose at 12kHz. I like what EV-T350 dose and how it sounds and practically in context of my MF channel. It might be a bit soft but my tweeter has some tweaks, making them slightly punchier, and that eventually made T350 a perfect match for the goals they try to accomplish in my playback.

Now my midrange channel need no upper range diffusion and now I feel that the result I’m getting from T350 is too soft and too transiently slow for S2. So, I kind of very mildly begin to look out there and to try top fugue out what tweeter I might try. Unfortunately I do not see a lot of interesting tweeter of high sensitively and high dispersion pattern, did I mention the quality of sound?

The plasma tweeters sounds like interesting but the problems with radiated gases, low sensitivity and very limited life-span do not make them unattractive. Some exotic Japanese tweeters, like Onken OS-5000T, might be interesting to try… but to pay $2000 juts for a try (who know how they will sound) is not practically attracts me. TAD ET-703s are syntactic garbage. The JBL-077 are too mechanical and granular. A good silk dome if to cross them above 10.000Hz might be interesting but they have no sensitively. The good ribbon tweeters (for instance Pioneer PT-R9) might be an interesting direction but never tried them + my fear of the ribbons... The armies of the titanium cone tweeters are worst then a nuclear war. The AMT tweeters have too genetic HF. The Fostex tweeters are too Hi-Fi….

I really do not know what I would try. Any suggestion?

The CaT


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Romy,

Put them in a box and send them to me. Did you notice the replacement diaphrams available on eBay? Gone now, but they did not sell so will probably return.
Bud


Posted by Romy the Cat on 07-24-2005

Bud,

the replacement diaphragms are available all time. On Ebay and everywhere else they are being sold by Bob Crites. He holds the original manufacturing rig and he can do them in unlimited quandaries. I own the original diaphragms but I do not use them as I find that the contemporary 16Ohm production is better, it is what I been using. Look somewhere in “My Playback” section I mentioned his email….

Yes, the T350 is fine driver but a driver could not be fine on it’s own. It should be a tonal, color, contrast and transient match with the associated channels. I feel that since I put to S2 a deeded amplifier the T350 can’t do it anymore.

Well, perhaps after screwing with number of tweeters I will return back to the T350, which had happened in past with me. For a time being I’ will be trying to use a reserved, open-back another S2 as a direct radiator. It might be useful…

Rgs,
The caT


Posted by jamesrm618 on 07-24-2005
Their are a pair of Pioneer Beryllium ribbon tweeters on ebay
with about 8 hours left (Item number: 5790340383) for US$25

The part number is PT-R14A, maybe a distant cousin to the TADs??

Regards
James

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Just some scattered points:

1) I gather the Acapella plasma tweeters have a catalyst so you don't get the nasty oxides/ozone etc. Got some old ionofanes on the way so will know soon how well they freshen up the room... They are self-amplified so efficiency is not an issue.

2) The PTR9 might be discontinued so if you want a pair, act soon. Actually, I've never tried mine with the S2 as it would mean padding the horns down 12dB.

3) I gather the Onken is long since out of production. I know JMLC loves them and found the ET703 "somewhat digital" sounding...

4) Seems to me like the following tweeter might be worth a try, so long as you can bypass the internal x/o:
http://www.e-speakers.com/pdf/LCY-100K-specsheet.pdf

except you'd need another amp channel.... which goes for all ribbons I guess.

5) Have you tried boosting the HF to the S2? Given that you have a potential divider at the input of the amp, you can just shunt the upper R with a cap (or RC for shelving filter)  Actually, forget that, it will just exacerbate the S2s breakup.

6) What about that little JBL Be compression driver as used in the K2? No experience of them but they might fit the bill sensitivity and transient wise?

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cv


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 cv wrote:
  I gather the Acapella plasma tweeters have a catalyst so you don't get the nasty oxides/ozone etc. Got some old ionofanes on the way so will know soon how well they freshen up the room... They are self-amplified so efficiency is not an issue.

Beside of others problem with the plasmatroniks they never sound like compression/dynamic drivers and this sound never could be integrated. The Acapella is a wonderful illustration of that said fact. As far as the old ionofanes and some others… this is all wishful thinking. First of all the never were made to the level of diamonds the we expect form them now and second… this membrane last for 1000-2000 hours and then sound like crap…
 cv wrote:
I know JMLC loves them and found the ET703 "somewhat digital" sounding...
The same JMLC use barbarian digital crossover for everything and he is big DSP proponent. No wonder that he has "somewhat digital" sounding... :-)
 cv wrote:
Seems to me like the following tweeter might be worth a try, so long as you can bypass the internal x/o: http://www.e-speakers.com/pdf/LCY-100K-specsheet.pdf except you'd need another amp channel.... which goes for all ribbons I guess.
Yes, there are many companies do ribbons and some of then even publish dB sensitively in their specifications. :-) I kind of skeptic about them. I would feel that Visaton/Fostex/Onken like tweeter would be more attractive, of course if they use proper magnets and proper diaphragms. In fact I kind of am considering to try some kind of “zippy” tweeters again. You see I find a very “yellow” sounding tube for gain stage of Melquíades and I would like to see how it will work out….
 cv wrote:
Have you tried boosting the HF to the S2? Given that you have a potential divider at the input of the amp, you can just shunt the upper R with a cap (or RC for shelving filter)  Actually, forget that, it will just exacerbate the S2s breakup.
Nope, it is not about boosting but taking the back plate off and invert the driver.

The caT

 


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I have a really barbaric suggestion... of course. I can set you up with 8 lLinaeum, soft, live horn, dipole tweeters. Stacking 4 per side should see you at 103 dB sensitivity and 8 ohms of impedence. You can stack them without interference diffraction effects and I would even treat them for you. Vertical dispersion is about 80 deg, horizontal is 140 deg and then there is the backside output, true dipole.

Extremely fast, musical and perfectly dynamic with everything, including cymbals and other metal banging events. Will do orchestral air and weight with great authority. Might even keep up with the S2's.....$250

Meanwhile I was serious about the boxing of the EV's. If you want them faster, with higher dynamic excursion capability, no loss lf musicality and a bit more intensity I can perform that miracle. And, since there are good diaphrams available and the pattern cleans off with alchohol, we could experiment....

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 Bud wrote:
I have a really barbaric suggestion... of course. I can set you up with 8 lLinaeum, soft, live horn, dipole tweeters. Stacking 4 per side should see you at 103 dB sensitivity and 8 ohms of impedence. You can stack them without interference diffraction effects and I would even treat them for you. Vertical dispersion is about 80 deg, horizontal is 140 deg and then there is the backside output, true dipole.
Yes, from time to time I was thinking about the hemispheric arrays…
 Bud wrote:
Meanwhile I was serious about the boxing of the EV's. If you want them faster, with higher dynamic excursion capability, no loss lf musicality and a bit more intensity I can perform that miracle. And, since there are good diaphrams available and the pattern cleans off with alchohol, we could experiment....
Actually. Bud, might be very interesting direction. A set of new diaphragms cost $25 and you might abuse them as much as you wish. I love the 350’s horn and this alnico magnet. If you feel that you might add to the 350s diaphragms some reasonable “shmaltz” then I will send you a pair of the cones for experiment as soon you wish. BTW, to clean off the patterns the alcohol should be used on the diaphragms or it should be taken in internally and then I have to breathe to the cones?

:-)
The Cat


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and something really salty... then we can sing to the domes and they will clean themselves, without our having to have a Memorex moment and scouring them with our tonality, or breaking them with our shrieking.... as only soft bubbling noises will be possible...
Bud

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Hi Romy,

Give the ribbons a try http://www.e-speakers.com/products/beengineering.html.  These are too expensive I think but believe me the sensitivity is real.  The best part is also that the impedance is very flat and an easy amplifier load.  I wouldn't worry about blowing them but if you are worried you can try something a bit cheaper than these.  I do not think the planar magnetic drivers are performing quite to the same standards but they can also be quite good with high sensitivity (93-95 db).


Posted by Romy the Cat on 08-03-2005
Thanks, it might be interesting. I never heard them and I have my prejudges against the ribbons but who knows…perhaps it might be possible to integrate a ribbon tweeter with the rest of the systems, I juts never heard it happen. :-) I was considering that if I find an interesting tweeter of low sensitively to make for it a dedicated one-stage amp to drive this thing…The problem is that I never hear this tweeter. You see, to spend even $2K for the very well performing tweeter that I would live for many years happily does not sound like a preposterous idea for me. However to spend even $300 for tweeter that might not perform well I find too expansive.

Thanks, anyway. I will certainly consider it and will look for more data about it.
The caT

Posted by Greg B on 08-07-2005

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I tried for at least a year to get some Aurum Cantus G3 ribbons to work in my high efficiency system, and never could. I tried everything.  I finally concluded that ribbon drivers do not work with HE systems. A $6 motorola piezo horn with some damar on the diaphragm and plastic horn damped with asphalt blew them away. The ribbons are fine at 'normal' low efficiency levels, very detailed, but with a coloration that is similar to a ribbon microphone. Perhaps the resistance of the fixed L pad damps ringing in the step up transformer.

So... you may want to experiment with modded piezo drivers. The motorolas have been discontinued, but some may still be out there. The direct radiator one works nicely as a supertweeter as well. I had always meant to try foiling them as 'dragan' does, but never tried. Also, there's a new $25 seas aluminum dome (H1212?) that may be worth an experiment. Specs and waterfall look very good, and I'm a little curious that it may be good cheap and musical.  I hate soft domes, and IMO the linaeum is horrid.



Posted by Romy the Cat on 08-07-2005

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Thanks Greg, so far what you said about the compliance between HE and ribbons is what I experienced. Ribbons, as well as electrostats sounds always too synthetics to me, but still I never seen any serious attempts to make ribbons to work, nor did it myself seriously. I do not think that ribbons has problems only with sensitively but something inherently “strange” live in their sound… Yes, there are people who do love them but from place where I stay when I head the Soundlabs I am willing if not threw-up but close….

The caT

Posted by Romy the Cat on 08-07-2005

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A second opinion needed.

Interesting, I recently found a very-very well performing setting for my EV T350 tweeter. I changed the source for HF channel form amplifier’s output to the MF channel and now I source the HF channel AFTER the MF high-pass filter. Well, let see. If the MF is crossed at 1000Hz (metal diaphragms) and the HF are crossed somewhere in ultrasound and roll to the auditable spectra at the transition slope… then what kind order at HF I have?

It looks like I use two sequentially located first orders but they are divided by 8-9 octaves. The tweeter dose sound more like second order and lost a lot of its upper-midrange softness and “noise”. In fact it sound now quite nice along with S2 drivers. So, is it the real first order or not? Interesting that I did not change the location of the driver (it sits still at it’s first order spot) and when I went to this knew crossover setting I did not feel sonically that it slided to anywhere time wise….

Rgs,
Romy the caT


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It's still first order since you have more than two octaves overlap. But it's a two pole quasi first order as well. I use this trick sometimes. The problem with first order is that excursion continues to rise below the crossover point, which of course means higher distortion. By taking advantage of the highpassed MF output, you have minimized this excessive excursion, and I'm not surprised it sounds better.

Funny how the old EV tweeters are still tough to beat. I'll let you know if I figure out something better, but I'm still working on this myself. Haven't heard vitavox. Perhaps the 'fancier' fostex supertweeters? I have not heard them. Cap and L-pad resistor quality is critical even in the cheaper models.

The main problem with ribbons is that they need a steep crossover, which is inherently problematic. The other problem is that they seem to have more non linear distortion than good conventional types. Multitone burst tests show this. It is audible as a sort of shimmery silver sound - especially at high SPL, but for low efficiency systems they work OK. Details and image are good to excellent, but integration is a bitch. Best integration I got was with a simple quasi second order series type, which seemed to lock the drivers together. I was shooting for something that started shallow but increased cutoff below the crossover point, sort of like what was just mentioned.

Greg B

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