FireWave Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Anyone have any experience with these? Im a bit skeptical about their claims. I have read that it improves "air" and clarity of dialogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted March 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 21, 2011 I have read that it improves "air" Isn't that an Air Purifier. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted March 22, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 22, 2011 Have heard of them but that's it, if it's super I wouldn't be able to here it anyway. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWave Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 I have read that it improves "air" Isn't that an Air Purifier. Good one! haha. Here is a link to the article I read. Click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted March 22, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 22, 2011 Have heard of them but that's it Yeah, I have heard the term but never researched to see what they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest " " Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Super tweeters are cool. Once you hit 40, you need to add one for every 10 years as you age just to be able to hear normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Super tweeters are cool. Once you hit 40, you need to add one for every 10 years as you age just to be able to hear normal....but your dog and cat won't like you very much for doing so... [8-)] "Get 'em while you're young...(or female)" Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireWave Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 Well best buy certainly would not have them so it is a specialty item from what I've researched they mainly help in spatialization, allowing more pinpoint accuracy in sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted March 24, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 24, 2011 Looking at those graphs it looks like women talk more than men, although they have to listen to themselvs also so I might be wrong ? [:S] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Most (or all ?) hearing curves I have seen are at just above threshold, rather than within the SPL range of most real music.. Hearing loss with age may not be quite as depressing as it seems (i.e., may involve less loss at high frequencies than these curves show) during the medium and louder parts of music, perhaps because of the effect of cortical arousal. I'm getting up there in age, and while I can no longer hear 16Khz on test disks unless right smack on axis and fairly close up, and some music does sound different, I think it's interesting that cymbal crashes, for instance, sound like they always have. So do the other instruments during musical climaxes. With music or dialog, the bad speakers in flatscreen TVs, computer speakers, and many others I encounter out in the world still sound to me like they have a lot less detail and "air" than good speakers --- I still hear a great difference. As to Super Tweeters, if they have a level control, one great advantage might be the ability to turn up the treble only from about 10KHz up, where there are no fundamentals at all, just delicate, airy, shimmering overtones (I think the highest fundamental on the piano is about 4.5KHz). Hopefullly one can get Super Tweeters that have very low distortion. The definition of Super Tweeters may have changed over the years. In 1959, JBL advertized the 075 as a Super Tweeter. It cut in over 2.5KHz in several of their systems, and at 7KHz in their Paragon, and their S8 and S8R systems (granted, 7K is higher than the highest fundamental you would be likely to encounter in acoustical music, so it might qualify as an "overtone only" speaker). JBL's and Altec's great theater horns started to roll off badly at something like 11KHz, so they could have used a Super Tweeter.. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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