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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.

Specification:

Beautiful leatherett covered body
Dual selectable, custom designed filters
Extension to 40KHz
Distortion ~0.6% (96dB 0.5m)
Size - 10.5cm x 13.5cm x 8cm (WHD)
£525 pair inc. VAT

Please contact to discuss your system, before ordering online