What are the differences in Tweeter materials?

Mezzanine,

How come you didn't include camel hair tweeters in you list of soft dome materials?

Kijanki,

I think you just P**** Off quite a few speaker companies. Looks like you just cracked the secret industry list price multiplier formula.

Zd542,

Something I said in my post that offended you? Do you really have to respond in such a rude manner to a normal question I asked?

Kijanki, ,

That was very interesting. Thanks for the post. I would have thought the value for titanium would have been higher than aluminum.

Do you have any info on soft domes? I am wondering what the difference in materials between soft domes and a textile dome? Or perhaps a textile is considered a soft dome as well?

"Something I said in my post that offended you? Do you really have to respond in such a rude manner to a normal question I asked? "

I have no idea why you would say that. What part of my post offended you?

Getting back to the OP, I think most people break it down to metal domes, fabric domes or ribbons. There are others exotic ones, such as plasma, but that's not really the issue, IMO. Many people seem to think that metal domes are harsh and silk domes are sweet - after all, it's silk, right? From what I have heard in many years of involvement in this hobby, is that a speaker designer can manipulate the output of a tweeter by padding it down or mounting it in a certain way. So it's more the designer's choices than the tweeter material that will determine the sound. Remember - bright speakers are initially impressive, leading to a quick sale. However, this becomes tiresome at home - hence the endless posts here about bright or harsh systems. The moral is - listen to the speaker as a whole and use your ears. The tweeter or woofer or cabinet material might be intellectually interesting, but ultimately, you have to like listening to the thing.