AudioSmile supertweeters
are a bespoke product, hand made to the specification of each customer.
The body of the supertweeter is covered with high quality leatherette
that is availible in a selection of colours (back or white standard).
The filter that merges the sound of the supertweeter with that of
your main speaker is created specially for each customers speakers.
Given
information about your main speakers we can design the filter in
the supertweeters to take over in just the right place and way.
The rear switch allows selection between two variations of the specially
designed filters, to suit the indervidul users taste. If you change
your speaker just send the supertweeters back to us and a new filter
can be designed and fitted. This is a huge step forward from off-the-shelf
supertweeters that try to use just one or two filter options despite
every speaker being different!
The
supertweeters use isoplanar ribbon technology. With extremely
wide dispersion, extension to 40KHz, distortion around 0.6% and
a decay rate of ~0.35ms, these supertweeters offer clarity and definition
beyond that of other ribbons.
The
Theory - Other supertweeters are
marketed as being beneficial because of the supposed human ability
to sense ultra-sonic sound via the skin and jawbone. While this
may be part of the story, AudioSmile take a much more realistic
stance that because many tweeters have narrow dispersion at the
highest octave, the listener must sit directly on axis with the
speaker to hear it. This narrow beaming of high frequencies is also
audible via the reverberant sound in the room, that will lack high
frequency content. The result of adding the supertweeters and attaining
a more even 'power response' is a more live, open and spacious sound
with added detail. Bass is also often reported to sound tighter,
because the leading edge of bass sounds are in fact in the treble
range.
AudioSmile
supertweeters are idea for partnering with speakers that may not
reach the highest octave of treble such as full-range single driver
systems, and systems that have narrow dispersion in the treble such
as electrostatics. Even the standard 1” tweeter has narrowing
dispersion above ~16KHz and can show improved soundstage and clarity
used with a supertweeter.
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