Seeking paper dome tweeter, Please help

[Tubenstein]

Hi!
Rumour has it that a sm Swiss made paper dome tweeter that is gold plated has been around for awhile. Anyone knows who makes it and the brand name of this tweeter? Thanks!

 

[JMFahey]

Paper dome?
Why not?
Suppose early ones were so.
Although it might sound shrill compared to silk domes or dull compared to Aluminum or Titanium ones.
Not sure what depositing Gold on Paper might accomplish, beyond some snake oil claims.

 

[Galu]

The nearest I can get is the Danish made Hiquphon OW3 golden soft dome tweeter.

https://www.hiquphon.dk/pdf_files/OW3-prospect.pdf

There's no mention of paper though.

 

[Tubenstein]

Whether the Danish made Hiquphon OW3 a good candidate to upgrade the Acoustic Research AR3a?

 

[picowallspeaker]

It depends...You need to upgrade the crossover too.
The slopes: are the two drivers integrating like the old ones? The woofer remains the same together with it's LP/BS coil ( I guess) and the tweeter 'inserts' with its own response after the C-L high pass. Is the impedance the same? At least the filter works..

 

[picowallspeaker]

This might fit ( there's a thread on it)

https://www.wavecor.com/html/tw045wa01_02.html

 

[ScottG]

Whether the Danish made Hiquphon OW3 a good candidate to upgrade the Acoustic Research AR3a?

It’s 8 ohms and I think the AR had 4 ohm tweeters.

I wonder what the eff. was for the tweeter..

Guess for 3/4” 4 ohm replacement tweeter:
https://www.hwelyaudio.com/sba-sb19st-c000-4/

 

[Arez]

Hi!
Rumour has it that a sm Swiss made paper dome tweeter that is gold plated has been around for awhile. Anyone knows who makes it and the brand name of this tweeter? Thanks!

https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/ar3a-tweeter-repair-or-replace.328219/

https://www.scaasi.info/detail/Ar-3...-Genuine-75-Dome-Tweeter_meovxwxuy1wyzvv.html

https://www.oaktreevintage.com/AR_Speaker_Parts.htm

 

[Tubenstein]

sounds great and I will ask my friend to use the factory replacement.

 

[picowallspeaker]

Ohhh those are three way! I was confused by the 'paper' in the title. So my suggestion was a large tweeter...
Indeed I had a pair of (rotten) AR-6 ( which don't seem to exist in the Oaktree_vintage page, probably they're a European version ) with working tweeters that I appreciate ( no working no more...).
So the 3/4" tweeter advice is good...BTW I used to live with paper cone tweeters! I had 4 in my Alllison Four system

 

[mayhem13]

Nope!