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Richard D Pierce
 
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Default Repairing "blown" speakers

In article ,
malcolm wrote:
just drop in a pair of Piezto tweeters and voila job done


Pardon us while we all collectively puke at this suggestion.
"dropping in a pair of Piezto [sic] tweeters" is about the WORST
choice imaginable:

1. Depending upon the vintage, the RTR speaker in question may
have used something like a reasonable quality Peerless tweeter.
Even the WORST Peerless tweeter is wider band (by a lot),
flatter response (by a HUGE amount), lower distortion, wider
dispersion, etc.

2. As bad as such a choice is, it's made worse by the fact that
the load presented to the crossover is TOTALLY different than
the original tweeter.

3. completely different mechanical fit means that it is
effectively impossible to just "drop it in."

Lessee, is it possible to do WORSE than a piezto tweeter? Maybe,
but I certainly wouldn't want to be part of the excercise.

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