Tweeter Differences


What is the advantage or disadvantage of a ribbon vs a Diamond or Beryllium tweeter in a speaker?
cvman

Showing 1 response by shadorne

Ribbon has a distinct radiation pattern. It suffers from distortion at lower frequencies.

Berylium is good but may suffer from undamped ringing in the audible band ( as does most rigid material )

Diamond is kind of a stiffened fabric dome a kind of composite material design - so it has some internal damping which is good but also extremely rigid - to me this would be best of the three - however it is ridiculously expensive for what it does - who needs anything above 15 Khz anyway?