You've missed the point I think Martin. Output from supertweeters should not be audible, if it is they're not implemented correctly.
It's not what they sound like that matters, it's the effect they have on what you actually can hear that's important. Try listening to a pair with main speakers, then disconnect them and the effect they are having vanishes. It's definitely a noticeable thing, even though you are not actually hearing the supertweeters themselves (if used correctly).
I can't hear much above 10kHz, but the effect of supertweeters working at above 15kHz is audible to me.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I'm Dennis.
My much revered tutor Mr. Wanden reported a test, in '69, that blind people who could not hear above 10k could perceive the difference between band restricted to 10k and open to full bandwidth sources.
Geoff, it is what you mean by "hear" that is crucial, but if a super tweeter is indistinguishable as a separate source, the difference with and without can be audible
The emperor has some new clothes. You can feel good about your supertweeter being capable of more but mind control is very persuasive when you feed it feel good thought patterns.
So youngsters with the hearing of a bat are already having a better experience than me then. You need to ask how it was for them because you cant spend money to be young again.
There are some ST threads with people trying to explain the leading edge of notes and one of the funniest comments is
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Shame to see an explanation going to waste.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Skepticism can be healthy but when you deny the science you might as well join the fruit loop brigade that have caused a measles epidemic in New York State.
Waves of any sort - including sound waves - interact with each other. This applies regardless of frequency and a sound wave doesn't care whether you can hear it or not when it interacts with other waves at different frequencies.
Supertweeters have an audible effect, this may not be quite for the reasons that some of their proponents claim, but to deny this is a denial of the science involved.
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Anyway, back to supertweeters.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!