@shadorne @erik_squires https://www.stereophile.com/images/417wilsonal.Walexfig5.jpghttps://www.stereophile.com/images/1114FA936fig8.jpghttps://www.stereophile.com/images/817Rav2fig8.jpghttps://www.stereophile.com/images/217MagS52fig7.jpgWhich of you two smack talkers is going to explain to me exactly how ugly the decay plot of a Focal 936 is? 2 of these graphs are from $40,000 speakers, one is from a $109,000 speaker, and one is from a $4000 speaker. Help me, because I'm confused. I'm not exactly seeing the superiority in the silk dome and paper at least in terms of measurements. Looks to me like that Al-Mg micro-motor inverted dome is holding it's own a bit better than the silk and Be. In fact, it looks like you can blow WAY more money on speakers and get much less impressive measurements. Shadorne is up there whining about 5 small 1.5ms decays. That $109,000 Wilson is pretty much averaging 1.5ms decays all the way up to those TWO nasty spikes around 15kHz.
So Erik, I did the homework you couldn't/wouldn't do. I just randomly picked some of the best reviewed speakers in the $40,000-$110,000 range and looked at their measurements. As far as I can tell, you're pretty much wrong.
Though not exactly a meticulous examination of all the available tweeter designs out there, It appears that Be is a decent material capable of exemplary performance, Al-Mg holds it's own decently well, and silk absolutely blows. I mean, if ANYBODY is going to get silk right, wouldn't it be Wilson?