Super Tweeters - Fact or Flights of Fancy?

It's a well known fact that you can't hear much above 15Khz but you can certainly hear a super tweeter in operation - it adds air and space and is difficult to do without once you have heard it.

Back in the early 80's I used to have a pair of cheapo Piezo super-tweets on flying leads with croc clips on the end. I used to tack them on to any and every speaker I got my hands on and most agreed that it was an improvement. I don't think it cost more than 8 quid to do....:)

I should just add that I'm open minded about it, just extremely sceptical. . . .

So was I till I heard it for myself.

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Originally Posted by Kris

I should just add that I'm open minded about it, just extremely sceptical. . . .

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I find this a sane attitude Kris, I'm the same as you. But when I see some hardcore objectivists use them, my logic gets alerted. ;)
Myself I postponed buying supertweeters because I had more severe problems to address with my system.

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Originally Posted by Themis

Myself I postponed buying supertweeters because I had more severe problems to address with my system.

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Yeah, I know the feeling. Lack of speaker terminals on the Dansette . . .:eyebrows:

Anyone got any comments on these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Tannoy-Pre...item4cecd621b2

The look nice but thats normally enough for me!!!:lolsign:

The Coles super tweeters in my BC2's do still work, although they're wired out of phase with the HF1300 in an attempt to reduce the 14KHz resonance in the Celestions.. To be honest, they just help hf dispersion a tad, but little else..

I read and saw measurements on the Tannoy super-tweeter pods, which actually came in at a perfectly audible 8 - 10KHz and only went out to 28KHz or so before rolling out. I suspect their main function is to smooth out the wayward pepperpots in the main drivers or, bearing in mind the prestige series sound so mellow, to liven things up a little..

Ali

Have you heard Colin's ESL63's with the Fostex supertweeter ?
The combination took a fair bit of tweaking to get right, but they sound absolutely stunning.
I last heard them being driven by Nick's 211 amp, and the combination was just awesome.

Chris:)

63's don't need a supertweeter, not if they're angled back and raised off the floor a foot or two... :confused:

Chris,no I haven't.Perhaps he'll bring them to Owston.

Dave,have you tried supertweeters with 63's?