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Thoughts on adding a Super tweeter .

I have posted something like this before,but thought I may ask for follow up input.
I already have a superb tweeter,ruler flat to 25khz(titanium),yet wonder if something like the Townshend(it starts to come in above 20 khz,and goes out to a zillion khz,almost)or Murata(comes in at 15 khz,Too low?, goes to a trillion,just kidding btw,)would add "real world"enhancements to my existing set-up.I have NO problems,with high freq performance,as of now,yet in this hobby,one can always be surprised.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated!

Best!
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royy
148 posts
 
I agree with Cjfrbw
tvad
9,467 posts
 
I auditioned a super tweeter...non ribbon variety...that went out to 50khz, I believe. It added a subtle bit of air and openess to the presentation. Super tweeters reproduce frequencies that are beyond what humans recognize as treble energy.

The effect of the super tweeter was subtle. I decided it wasn't worth the $1000, but we all put different price tags on these things.
honest1
572 posts
 
I agree with the Tennis man on the overabundance of upper mid / lower treble energy. I base this assertion on my experience at CES / THE this year. Room after room had this characteristic. Even my own system has it to a degree, which annoyed me until I came home from CES. Then I turned on my system and it was a relief, because many (most?) of the rooms at the show had it far worse than my system does.

Also, keep in mind that a CD can not reproduce sounds above 20KHz. While it may theoretically be capable of producing "perfect sound" below this frequency, it has never been billed as having any capability above that point. So what you will be reproducing from a CD is not the musical content,but the residual digital noise that doesn't get filtered out by the player's filters. The better your player, the less of this there should be. Maybe if you're playing analog, there would be some content from the original event buried in the grooves.
tvad
9,467 posts
 
Also, keep in mind that a CD can not reproduce sounds above 20KHz. While it may theoretically be capable of producing "perfect sound" below this frequency, it has never been billed as having any capability above that point.
Honest1 (Threads | Answers)
That's true for redbook CD, but SACD and DVD-A reproduce sound up to 100khz.
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
I heard a super tweeter on a neighbor's SET system. Although there was
noticeable HF extension over his single driver speakers, the superimposed
lower HF brought on a heightened upward tilt that I didn't care for.
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