6.5 vs 8 vs 10 woofer

Such as ~all dome tweeters~ suffer from any number of weakness.??
The Millenium Tweeter is one of if not the best dome tweeter in production. Yet i've found its nothing vs a  high quality FR driver in the same fq's. 
Its ridiculous listening to a  tiny 1.3 inch dome tweeter trying to gather up a  full range orchestra in full power.
Its a joke.


Perhaps  a opinionated bias on my part,  but true. Dome tweeters are for jazz only. Light jazz at best. 

I agree with  with Larryi. As a speaker builder I respect his angle on design, implementation as in the right woofer for cabinet volume and other factors as in component selection. Cross over selection. Internal cabling, internal damping materials.  There are advantages in smaller drivers, and larger ones. My first were 14" Alinco Aquadag woofer with 5" mid ,2" tweeter.  The woofer had been in a larger room and was great .  I would not want them in a small room.  Now I live in a smaller space and the less efficient 8" towers I built are better suited for that room size. The bass actually goes lower on the 8" towers but in a large room would not have the same impact as compaired where they now sit.   Placing a pair of Klipshorns in a small room would be a disaster.  Matching components to the living space is very important.

@mozartfan,

" Its ridiculous listening to a tiny 1.3 inch dome tweeter trying to gather up a full range orchestra in full power."

tweeters reproduce harmonics mostly and are used over 2khz. listen to your music, turn a EQ on and highpass your orchestra at 2khz. not much energy over 2khz.

no wideband will be as even in the treble as any tweeter. and very few wideband, if any, of the zie your looking at (6 or 8") will reproduce "air" in a even pattern. Most wideband still need a tweeter for the last octave (10khz to 20khz)

its quite ridiculous to think that a wideband is suited to reproduce a orchestra at full power

Enjoy the journey, but everything is a compromise and many ways to get to satisfaction in this hobby

" Dual 6.5’s MM (skip the tweet) is the ideal bass configure for backing up a single FR 6.5 or 8."
why not dual 15", or dual 10’s or dual 8’s.

you clearly are starting to make stuff up as you go on.

I am all about the results....its' about the performance isn't it?

Naturally aspirated inline 6, V-8 or V12?  I don't really care if it provides good performance and throttle response :)

 Its ridiculous listening to a tiny 1.3 inch dome tweeter trying to gather up a full range orchestra in full power." 

 You are right it is,  that's why we use another driver below it and a crossover.  

tweeters reproduce harmonics mostly and are used over 2khz. listen to your music, turn a EQ on and highpass your orchestra at 2khz. not much energy over 2khz.

Ok , so there is no argument, you only listen to music up to 2000 hz, since anything over 2k is irrelevant because it is only harmonics. 

@ mozartfan   I really do hope that you look over the information that I posted about understanding speaker specs and what they mean when it comes to understanding a speaker.  One thing that I would say that I don't see regarded much on domes is Xmax.  1.3 inch domes out there currently have an xmax of .1mm to 3.0mm.  This makes a tremendous difference in how a dome translates music.  There is a tweeter fairly unknow that I truly love.  I posted it on a thread called what are your favorite tweeters.    If you'd like to pm me, I'll do my best to answer your questions and offer a better understanding of why some of your idea's are actually quite good, but others show a very poor understanding of how all of this works.   Good Luck.  Tim