Supertweeters Work


So, I just got back my Aerial Acoutic 7ts from being modded by ASI Teknology, Doug Jessie.  I unboxed them, hooked them up, and thought they sounded nice and improved but something was missing.  Specifically, recordings with high end air was missing the delicacy and presence in the upper registers.  I looked on my window sill and there sat my supertweeters.  I hooked them up and viola my problem was solved.  A very convincing lesson that my Towshend super tweeters work and work impressively. 

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Showing 4 responses by antigrunge2

There are numerous threads on supertweeters. The most common explanation for their demonstrable effectiveness is the rendition of upper harmonics above the audible range. Specifically they work well with DSD and high resolution recordings. The aim is not really to improve treble since they mostly work beyond the audible range and any normal tweeter will easily cover the upper limit of most people‘s hearing ability.

One other hint: keep moving them forward and backward in very small, i.e. 1mm increments from the seating position. The phase allignment with the tweeter is very important, i.e. in opposite phase they cancel each other out in the audible spectrum. Equally, their sensitivity should ideally not differ too much from the speaker; a limited amount of adjustment here can be achieved by toe in.

@maxwave

The level depends on sensitivity: chose the one closest matching your speakers, expressed in db/2.83V (typically between 85-95db). The phase issue inly depends on allignment with the tweeter diaphragm, not volume setting)

Either you are under 40 or need to do a hearing test. Above 40 the likelihood of hearing bove 16KHz is very low

 

 

 

@jaymark 

what you hear from your supertweeters is better reproduction of harmonics, not more treble. Read up on stuff rather than scold people trying to help you. No matter how much louder you blast high frequencies, if you can’t hear them in the first place, it won’t help a bit, doh…