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Tekton tweeter design

Hi everyone,

I found a cool, fact filled thread with some smart DIY'ers over at the DIYAudio forum about how the Tekton tweeter arrays are wired and how they work.

Kind of interesting in how they were innovative in some ways, and in others did some questionable things. Reminds me of Infinity, who developed crazy crossovers in large part by ear, which we can now really improve upon. Still good sounding, but in hind sight we wonder about them.


https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/336743-help-understanding-tekton-tweeter-array-schematic.h...


Please, keep your flames over here on Audiogon. :)
erik_squires

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Wouldn't they sound better with a single really good tweeter then a bunch of cheap ones?
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erik

I am not sure how you could possibly assume that a large number of tweeters is going to narrow the dispersion….I was watching a nice story about how they were able to photograph a black hole . With telescopes in Antartica, Chile and a number of other countries. They had to focus the incoming radiation….well they used extremely sophisticated devices to accomplish that feat. Not sure a bunch of tweeters is going to focus quite that well.

I do like the " box fee " sound of ESL's but to my ears the focus seems to move around. An analogy would be watching a 3D movie, a good 3D movie. Not quite real and a little shaky. The attraction for most is the unboxed sound and not the " pin point " imaging.

Not sure how you might conclude that the performance of each tweeter might "best" that of much more high end tweeters.
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