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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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