Originally Posted by
djEmpire
, the aim is to compliment the tonality in the high-hat region. Treble can be tricky to control if the system doesn't have a silk or ribbon tweeter, so the focus is to accentuate the bass slightly to a more 'velvety' top end.
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I'm not saying this won't work but.... it is interesting that people make assumptions about tweeters that are not really valid.
First of all they assume that the tweeter contributes far more to the sound than it actually does. This can be demonstrated by disconnecting the tweeters on a friend's system and seeing how long it takes for him to a)notice something is wrong b)pin it down to the tweeters not working. The likelihood is he will blame the recording to begin with.
Second, that different types of tweeter are responsible for certain traits in the sound. So silk domes are smooth because silk is smooth, but metal domes are hard and clangy because metal is hard and clangy. In reality any type of tweeter, provided the implementation has not been botched, will sound absolutely fine.
95% of the hi-hat sound will be coming from the mid range driver, not the tweeter, and if the speaker sounds too bright/toppy this is likely to be the fault of the partnering equipment, not the speaker (unless it is badly flawed or some weird design).
Speakers tend to measure pretty much flat when they leave the factory. No-one designs a speaker, listens to it, decides it is too toppy, hard, harsh, bright etc then sticks it out in the market place anyway. Speakers get blamed for all sorts of ills. Fact is, the better the speaker the more it will show up how rubbish the amplifier is. But people don't want to believe this for some reason.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.