Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series

@elliottbnewcombjr 

You are missing the point. To achieve the desired frequency response when changing tweeter (or any driver regardless of the material) requires changing the crossover. There is no getting around this unless you just happen to get lucky and the TS parameters match. When manufacturers change tweeter materials it’s mostly marketing to get you excited about buying, but the magic is in other design areas than just the cone material. 

boostedis

I agree, someone is missing the point.

is it a high performance tweeter, handles say 1,500 to 20,000 essentially equally? so, the crossover will send it what? whatever the content is, everything the amp sends starting at ____? 

does it physically fit?

essentially same efficiency? Q? 

Pair of Randomly Chosen Morel Tweeters $899.

It ain’t rocket science, those Morels might sound better to many fed from the existing crossover.

Somebody must have found successful substitutes for those expensive tweeters, and you do not HAVE to alter the crossover. 

It could be argued it’s a good time to restore the crossovers in any case, so that makes it even easier to try a substitute.

I forgot the tweeters were the ugly tapered bullets.

tweeter replacement video, he forgets to explain you should do it barefoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05uQtj6g0w

perfect.
the diamond tweeters are zz14388

the best part of the video is: received the tweeter with zero cost.

 

for future backup, you could have someone convert your old ones to Silk/Titanium

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156310534334