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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Problems with horns: tweeters.
Post Subject: Tweeterize yourself.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/28/2005
Well, Steve,
usually I find this situation of “instantaneous awe” is not necessary a good thing. You did acknowledge the “benefits” of the tweeters in Acapella and this is undeniable evidence that the tweeter did not perform well in context of the given system. Now, how would you further learn if it was a problem of the Acapella or it was a fundamental problem of the plasma transducer without paying those $10K? Get from eBay the earlier versions of plasma drivers and experiment with them (it will cost you around 200$). After you get a feeling what you will be getting out of the plasma tweeter then re-listen those Acapella. Perhaps the Acapella tweeters are better (or not) but you still will recognize some common idiosyncrasies. Now you would be better familiar with the “differences” and that would allow you to interpret the heard result more objectively and impartially. This would permit you to make your own further discoveries and abstractions about the plasma transducers but then you will have the “initial awe” filtered out. I still do not feel that there is any midrange driver that will be able to work with plasma tweeter (with an exception of the electrostats but then you have the same "sound-free Sound" in midrange also) but this is just a pile of steaming me….
Rgs,
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