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In Reply to: Rear-firing tweeters : gimmick or real improvement ? posted by Lambda on November 9, 2006 at 07:45:17:
Hard to say. I am from the horn side so I like the controled directivity they provide. There can be issues technically with comb filtering but virtually every horn loudspeaker with multiple drivers that attemps a crossover point up into the 8-10K area will have them on axis because of the path length diferences in the horns. I have JBL 4344's with a 10K crossover point between the compression driver and the ring radiator and if you measure them on axis you can plainly see them through the crossover region. You can see this with any of the 3 or 4 way large format monitors that used a compression driver for the midrange. Comparing them to speakers that don't have them, a dome midrange and tweeter system with lower crossover points, I for one can't hear the difference. It's one of those can't hear them though I can easilly measure them. Maybe with the right source material you could but it's not obvious. Based on that I wouldn't worry too much about them. I have heard several speakers that used rear mounted tweeters for added ambience and they sounded fine to me. To be honest I have never taken any home so I don't what to expect outside the showroom. What ever makes you happy.
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