Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series

My experience with speaker design has shown me that tweeter material isn’t nearly as important as the designers choice of crossover values. A bright commercial speaker isn’t bright because of the tweeter material, it’s bright because they wanted it that way for a Wow-factor! They could easily pad down the high frequency response without changing the tweeter material. BTW, @roxy54 is correct! You can’t simply swap in and out drivers without reworking the crossover. It doesn’t work like that…..

I had 1 tweeter shattered.

If I buy only 1 new, would the sound be very different from the old one (other speaker)?

Tks.

@boostedis +2

Mike

@gfguimaraes 

I'm sure that it would be fine.

shattered? usually you burn out the coil, what do you mean shattered?

I would buy a new pair and have 1 working spare.

is it possible the bad tweeter can be repaired? have you looked into that?

my active horn tweeters and horn midrange drivers were made in 1958, impregnated linen, essentially indestructible. I did burn out a coil blasting Iron Butterfly, I found someone who replaced the coil way back then.