One of my design partners has a general preference for AMTs vs. Ribbons. I love ribbon microphones and I love ribbon tweeters, but I listen mostly to classical music and I do not listen to music that is all that loud. My design partner loves the sound of Fountek's NeoCD3.0... as long as it is not pushed.
What we would like to know is if anyone has experimented with the Satori AMT; and, even better, compared it to the near-price Mundorf AMTU60W1.1-C Air Motion Tweeter -4 ohm. That the Mundorf claims a non-trivial increment over the Satori in terms of pushing area is at this point a major consideration.
Thanks in advance to all.
john
What we would like to know is if anyone has experimented with the Satori AMT; and, even better, compared it to the near-price Mundorf AMTU60W1.1-C Air Motion Tweeter -4 ohm. That the Mundorf claims a non-trivial increment over the Satori in terms of pushing area is at this point a major consideration.
Thanks in advance to all.
john
I would look here for some measurements: https://audioxpress.com/categories/vc-testbench
Mundorf AMT are not something I would ever use due to the harmonic distortion and decay alone. The SB and Beyma are more in the same league, although a designer I know liked the Beyma because it could cross lower. I'm leaning that way myself for a higher end AMT. Lower end the Airborne AMTs get good reviews, and I'm waiting to see 3rd-party measurements of the new Dayton. There are a lot crappy AMTs, so do your homework.
Mundorf AMT are not something I would ever use due to the harmonic distortion and decay alone. The SB and Beyma are more in the same league, although a designer I know liked the Beyma because it could cross lower. I'm leaning that way myself for a higher end AMT. Lower end the Airborne AMTs get good reviews, and I'm waiting to see 3rd-party measurements of the new Dayton. There are a lot crappy AMTs, so do your homework.
Rather than AMT try planar. B&G Neo3PDR / GRS 2522. For a smaller driver with wider dispersion try Radian LT3.
Thank you for the referral....
To quote Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything but temptation."
all my best,
john
Not simply about any particular brand of planar/ribbon tweeter but far more relevant to "sound quality" is how to integrate it with the mid because the dispersion patterns of each are very different.
It's also about your room, because limiting vertical dispersion from the tweeter may be an advantage (longer/taller diaphragms)...or it may not!!
Odd stuff, audio...and rarely about brand name 🤔
It's also about your room, because limiting vertical dispersion from the tweeter may be an advantage (longer/taller diaphragms)...or it may not!!
Odd stuff, audio...and rarely about brand name 🤔
Thats a lot of $$$ for a tweeter that on paper, doesn’t look as nice as a Satori dome. CSD is super clean but youd need to cross if fairly high…….and with that vertical response, getting it to integrate with a mid driver will be a struggle.
No experience with that particular unit, but as a general observation AMT are Ok above 4khz, and difficult to integrate below that.
So it really depends on what mid / midbass you are using it with.
So it really depends on what mid / midbass you are using it with.