nice entrance sonic. first 3 posts one after the other. nobody can get a word in edgeways. I notice 5 posts in all, and all 5 knocking WHF. If you think there speaker recomendations are bright, why are you listening to kefs?
stop trolling
Sorry branoc.
I tend to hate all things bright aswell. Im happy to make sacrifices elsewhere to keep my tops in check. its harshness that really does me. Metal tops are a deffinate no imo. Recently ive been listening to some morel tweeters that i presume is the dynaudio sound. There the best ive heard as yet. They dont miss a detail, unless its rough. Like a silk touch to everything. open but never harsh.
Ive a good cheap trick. Although probably fround upon. Turning your tops down with resistors. It only works with bi-wireable speakers though. I take my single speaker lead to the bass units posts. I link the negs with the link as usual, but instead of linking the red ones, i do it with a resistor. I find 3ohm or 4.7ohm in the 5watt size handy. There wire would ceramics so thats all good, and only pennys from maplin. I realise its moving away from the original design, but i reckon a lot of tweeters are left a bit high for a lower component count, and it keeps the sensitivity numbers looking more respectable. The 4.7ohm option is about a 2db drop. A 1ohm is barely noticeable.
While the cross over point wont be effected with resistors before it, the amps power will still want to go somewhere. Blocking some volume from the treble mean that some of that blocked energy will pass through the cone instead. Most will be hf the cone simply cant reduce, so its lost still. Any extra energy coming through the cone around the crossover point will keep the volume slope there more textbook. The crossover is usually more concerned with saving the tweeter(from resonence) than stopping the woofer tweeting. What im saying here is, its not that bad a thing to do, if you have to. Only you can judge the compromise.
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