Anyone had any success using this tweeter?:
https://www.daytonaudio.com/images/...me-neodymium-tweeter-4-ohm-specifications.pdf
It's been a couple of months, but I tried this out crossed at 4KHz 2nd order, and frankly it sounded bloody awful. I perhaps should have padded it down a bit more, but wasn't motivated to try. Any hints for improvements, before I consign them to the outer darkness? I bought them based on price, dispersion looks good, & they've got an integral grille. Perhaps the peak in the high teens needs taming, but at the moment they're just confirming my prejudice towards soft domes.....
https://www.daytonaudio.com/images/...me-neodymium-tweeter-4-ohm-specifications.pdf
It's been a couple of months, but I tried this out crossed at 4KHz 2nd order, and frankly it sounded bloody awful. I perhaps should have padded it down a bit more, but wasn't motivated to try. Any hints for improvements, before I consign them to the outer darkness? I bought them based on price, dispersion looks good, & they've got an integral grille. Perhaps the peak in the high teens needs taming, but at the moment they're just confirming my prejudice towards soft domes.....
I have wanted to try some of those and see how they compare to some old JBL 035Ti tweeters I have. Those are mechanically damped from behind the domes using a small block of closed cell foam. They sound awful when the foam has deteriorated over time I know.
I got a set of these on sale and they were pretty bad to my ears. Without measurements to back up my findings, I'm certain they suffer from excess odd order HD in the 3 - 5 k range and response above 8 k falls rapidly. They ended up in the scrap pile because I find zero use for such bad sounding tweeters.
Thanks Profiguy, good to know it's not just me. Apparently when metal domes first appeared, spraying some sort of coating was a common way to deal with the issue, but I think I just going to bury them somewhere in my shed, life's too short... Cheers
Bumping this 'cause I might have another go at it.
The last post on this page shows distortion measurements, with a bump at ~6.5Khz, maybe a sub-harmonic of the Breakup peak?:
https://diy.midwestaudio.club/discussion/199/nd25fw-4-measurementsperhaps a notch here might tame it ???
The last post on this page shows distortion measurements, with a bump at ~6.5Khz, maybe a sub-harmonic of the Breakup peak?:
https://diy.midwestaudio.club/discussion/199/nd25fw-4-measurementsperhaps a notch here might tame it ???
Pete, that review on the MidWest club forum is for the waveguided, fabric domed model, not the compact, Ti-dome version you mention initially, explaining a lot of the difference in the main frequency response & likely any distortion artefacts.
Just wanted to be sure you weren't possibly mixing them up.
FWIW, the FW version is used in the Parts Express C-Note kit, so lots of reviews available, if you weren't already aware of that one.
Just wanted to be sure you weren't possibly mixing them up.
FWIW, the FW version is used in the Parts Express C-Note kit, so lots of reviews available, if you weren't already aware of that one.
Hi David, yep, most of the thread is about that version, but the last post is about the TA version
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