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Could glass displace (your fave) tweeter material?

I thought this was pretty interesting.  I do think we pay too much attention to tweeters and not enough to the mids but still I'm always fascinated by the innovation.  Seas has released a new tweeter using a glass dome, and incorporating new faceplate for very smooth off axis response, while maintaining the efficiency of a waveguide.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Joseph Audio was among the earliest adopters.  I understand the Kii range already uses them? 

https://audioxpress.com/article/test-bench-seas-t27gl001-dxt-glass-dome-tweeter

erik_squires
erik_squires OP
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I was just thinking about the Yammies. One of the very rare uses of Be for a midrange.  

I’d be very curious to hear any experiments with glass mids.  

As mentioned, the Be tweeters have very high resonances, but so does glass and some other metal tweeters.  

 

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curiousjim
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The technology looks fine and dandy, but I bet my ears won’t like it.

incorrigable
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We like our NS 5000's with ALL drivers made of monel coated zylon so much we will travel to Japan and buy NS-3000 and airlift them home in our luggage. Wife grew up in Japan and says it will be fun. We'll hit some great restaurants and drink delicious IPA. 

High end seduces with exotic tweeters not close to the material of their cone drivers hoping nobody askes about tonal uniformity across drivers. Planars are nice but they cannot match cones in bass. 

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