Plastic ring over tweeter opinion

Check out my archived thread on this topic and more such proclamations from Mapleshade...

"Duct tape is the answer to just about everything."

That's certainly Red Green's philosophy...(those not in the habit of watching reruns of Canadian comedy on PBS, don't ask)

Agree that altering whatever "phase" or "diffusor" plate/plug/ring/lens accompanies a tweeter -- anything more than just a guard-wire -- will greatly and unpredictably alter its response and throw out of whack all the engineering that the designer put into the speaker. So consider this: the Stereophile reviewer Wes Phillips, whose writing I generally enjoy and don't usually find to be partially insane or blissfully ignorant, stated in print that he actually heeded Pierre Sprey's personal urging and clipped them off the pair of Thiel 1.6's he seemed to have kept in-house for an extended stay. Aside from the questions this raises about Phillips' sonic and reviewing accumen and judgement, what must Jim Thiel have thought A) about anyone doing this to his speakers, much less B) about a reviewer doing this to gear I assume was on manufacturer loan?

PP: IMO you should have responded to me about the other thread *on* the other thread. But instead I guess you complained to Agon about it, because when I took the liberty of attempting to copy and paste the pertinent part of your response here over there, so I could reply to it in context, it wound up pending moderator approval. If and when they decide to post it there, I'll respond there, point by point. But sarcasm aside (and my degree of sarcasm was only inspired by and proportational to the overheatedness of Mr. Sprey's claims and rhetoric, which he still mails to me unsolicited from time to time), suffice it to say I stand by all of my criticisms, and do not feel anything you've said here refutes the substance of any of it.

PP: They posted it, but I'm having trouble posting my response there because my pooter has picked this time to start arbitrarily freezing up on me. I already lost this short reply once, and about half of my detailed post over there this morning...it might be a while... :-(

Update: More than two years after the fact, Audiogon has now deleted from the archives my above-referenced thread concerning the advice (such as circumsizing your tweeters) proffered in the Mapleshade catalog. Let me say for the record that, any sarcastic tone aside, everything I took exception with over there was 100% accurately quoted verbatim from their catalog, and for each point I provided factually sound reasons why many of the actions Mr. Sprey urges without any disclaimers or caveats could not always be of benefit. I guess the truth hurt somebody too much to bear.

Eldee: No mistake, the thread's been permanently deep sixed (try the link I provided in my first post above, which wasn't dead when the thread was active; also the thread title "Who Does He Think He's Fooling?" has disappeared from the list of threads initiated under my username). I imagine the clock could be ticking on this one too, especially after these last few posts...