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Romy the Cat wrote:

...To substitute SL600 original tweeter with anything else, would it be Revelators, Diamond or made from Faberge Eggs is like to make a movie with Humphrey Bogart and ask busboy form a nearby Chinese restaurant to re-record the Bogart’s dialogs. The SL600 tweeter with pure copper dome and phenolic suspension was probably the most perfect tweeter even was made (sonically), with only disadvantage in sensitively department.

I use the SL-600 as my summer monitor, driving it with 100W A/B amp and I do like it all around balance, size and many other factors.  The SL-600 has beautiful cupper tweeters, phenomenal in my view but the circumstances of my habits made me to look somewhere else. The SL-600 has second-order 12dB/octave slope at 2.3kHz but…. the SL-600 has sensitive in low 80s and I'm keep destroying those tweeters. I have burned 6 of them. Not truly burned but afar a few months/weeks/days of use I hear that the tweeters got changed and do not sound as good as initially. I understand that my barbaric Macondo-spoiled habits with high dynamic range are to blame and I do admit that I drive the SL-600 much harder that I shell. But it is what it is and I am not willing to moderate my listening habits.

Here is the question. The SL-600 is old speaker and many people might went over the same dilemma. So, is any tweeter out there that would work well with SL-600, would not require a lot of modification and would tolerate abuse well? I am not intend to make long experiments and rather am looking for a plug-and-play solution. I am sure somebody out there, and most likely the Brits, have already off a shelf solution.

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