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In Reply to: Focal Beryllium Tweeter posted by samurai7595 on February 15, 2016 at 06:18:03:
I have a pair of Focal Twin 6's with Beryllium tweeters. I used them with the sub 6 subwoofer. There are electronic crossovers with one amplifier per driver. When I first got these near field studio monitors I noted that they were too bright and particularly one that was reflecting off of a wall, so I had to treat this wall with a heavy blanket. At this point the speakers were still on the bright side, with bright recordings (such as the Mercury Living Presence CDs) being unlistenably bright.
On the back of the Twin 6's there are two cross-over controls, one for the woofer and one for the tweeter. I adjusted the tweeter control until the balance sounded about right for middle of the road recordings, e.g. Keith Johnson's orchestral recordings. At this point almost all of the recordings in my library sounded well balanced.
Later, I did some measurements. Basically the speaker was flat to 20 kHz at the listening position in the "normal" setting. As I set it it was down -3.5 dB at 10 kHz and -4 dB (shelf) at 12 kHz to 20 kHz.
In general, if a recording is mixed and mastered to sound good in a studio with it's "house" curve then it will sound right if your system is similar. For various reasons, most mastering studios have similarly rolled off "house" curves, which is why a flat system is generally a bad idea. There are more complicated aspects of the situation involving dispersion, etc., but the basic idea is simple. If your system doesn't permit making suitable adjustments then you are being foolish to spend big bucks swapping components as a way to do what should be basic set up.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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