supertweeters

these townesend things, wot do they cost, are they any good, would my evo 4 blow em up , could they work with the old jm lab 920 electras

 

About £800 I think, which seems a bit OTT. WM has/had a pair. I was going to try and score a pair SOR but then decided not to bother as I had no intention of actually buying them for that price, just wanted to see what the fuss is about. There was a thread on here a couple of months ago with some interesting speculation as to how/whether they work.

-- Ian

 

Ian,
I have one than one pair. John, the B/C isn't gunna fry em' trust me.
Best thing is to try a pair on s.o.r. se how well it sits in your system, else your welcome for a listen, with/without them. Wm

 

blinking heck 800 is a bit steep. i was thinking more like 400 tops. i'll ponder - tony wot do you reckon on yours?

 

I was impressed with what they did. Not going to wax about them but would recomend a listen.
They are steep for what they are, i feel, hence i dont have them myself.

 

I love em', but I had to work at them to get them to gel, it wasn't all plain sailing, matching the speaker wires helps a lot, as does postioning, I've Futher been at the insides and added some quantum filters too.
Now the difference is chalk & cheese, though it wasn't always so, I would cry if they were removed, however you may feel different.
The Tannoy ones are £600 and I've seen a few pairs on ebay for around the £250 mark.
I love em, I even got them on the entire a/v set up as well.
Try out first John, but you will need to play about with the postioning to get the most. T.

 

uhhm matching speaker wires, positioning ?? do tell.

quantum filters - ???

thanx

j

 

John,

see here:- https://www.audio-forums.com/as-rediect/showthread.php?t=4645
Quantum filters; beyond foo foo dust<>Ultra Voodoo, even helps dac 64's REALLY

 

Tone - you know that Star Trek stuff you watch isn't real don't you?

Michael.

 

Actually Michael, it probably did happen eons ago on the planet he's from.

 

tony

thanks i'll digest that sometime soon. you say the missions are 600ukp , are there any other similar devices?

 

John , theres a thread in DIY . In that JC makes a recommendation for some .
I think they were $518 for the pair.
Don,t be put off by the DIY thread , they,re fully enclosed ST,s not something that needs a cabinet making for them .
By the way , you do realise that your tweets go up to 23 khz already?

 

Hi,

Murata also do some fully enc Supatweeters...ES103 i think, 100khz ceramic jobs, have a look on the USA Murata site...

Regards

 

The Murata speaker system is Muy interesting. Only heard very briefly, but it sounded very promising. They've hoovered up a bunch of awards here for the system (not that that really means anything, I know).
Downside: a looong way from being cheap :-(

 

save your money,waist of £800.......IMO get a pair SOR I bet if you can do a good genuine A/B test your money will stay in your wallet.
I,m not sure if you believe in cables but your welcome to give my hydra 2+shunyata a try for a week I think you will be more suprised with these on the B/C than the tweeters

 

Kev,

Must be something wrong with that system of yours sir if you can't hear a difference (weather you like the difference is another matter). Do you fancy a Hydra 8?, yours for £1200 240v model inc the the stock mains effort that comes with it, we are in no longer need of its limited services.
It may surprise you over the Hydra 2. It might even thame those 60's
Still got your Evo 4 then?, didn't you have bites on it?, or you going to keep it now.If you do consider a good valve pre to go between the AA and B/C it will bring a smile to your face.

 

Hell my system always has something wrong with it to your ear's, nothing new there,
curious regarding your advise offered a while back regarding the Hydra 2 not be voltage dependent.....Shunyata firmly disagree with you there,also both manual & box also state " caution" 110V only
anyway
stand by what I said,can't say they{tweeters} just sound shit cos they just don't do a thing period to my ear's.
nothing wrong with the GR60's bloody brill in fact,the Alon's were better,but
I was offered a rather nice toy{Ducati} as part of a deal and Alon's now reside in Antwerp

Still got the Evo4, and not fussed about parting company with it

the only pre's I,ve found make me smile are Audio research SP9/LS25
To be honest the AA straight to B/C sound's Damm fine to me......just a little cable fine tune to be done still single ended at the moment

looking for a couple of sink's at the moment also

have you finished with your Eclipce yet? may make you an offer now
you know whats make's the little box of tricks work so well

 

Kev,
My ears have been cleaned this week, so there fine thanks
The eclipse is now residing in the bedroom system, and keeping the 860 happy, though the Q55's -arn't helps matters too much there.
I found the sink killed the groove and life on the B/C, but gave a bigger presence & mid band projection, still points are the answer there.
You ought to consider tara labs 'the one', for the i/c is rather good or the Sosis Kobola is worth an earwig too, you'd like their presentation they give I feel.

 

regarding I/C I,ve being using VDH first Ultimate for a long while and enjoyed
however It's imposible to use with the AA & Belcanto ..the most horrendous
feedback & humming and general unpleasentness.
using A/Z silver Ref at the mo but I dunno jury still out.....has +/- over Transparent stuff I also use,more listening to be done I think

 

Kev,

I did notice that on an Evo4 I had in for modding, it was quite noisy on single ended, just try and switch in the xlr switches with the single ended connected (you won't damage anything), then stick you head in the speaker, you may find the noise drops markedly
The VDH is carbon fibre isn't it, It does seem to exaggerate this effect of buzzing.