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<blockquote data-quote="elduderino" data-source="post: 772078" data-attributes="member: 557356">1) No, metal tweeters tend to overemphasize certain notes due to &quot;ringing&quot;. Think about hitting a bell. It continues to vibrate after you hit it. The silk tweeter has better damping, or a lower &quot;q&quot;, and adds less to the music.2) It&#039;s possible that a metal tweeter radiates heat a bit better, but neither enjoys much of a benefit in power handling.3) With a 1&quot; diaphragm, it is much easier to get a silk dome to have a lower mechanical resonance - you can get it to play lower and still sound good. Since cone mids have worse off-axis dispersion the higher they go, lower-playing tweeters are important for door mounting (less so for on-axis mounting - kicks and home speaks).This is why Dynaudio, Morel, DLS, Rainbow, Alpine/Scan-Speak, Phass/Scan, a/d/s/, etc., all use silk.4) Over time the harsher ringing at the bottom of the range (the upper mids/lower treble) becomes tiring and contributes to listener fatigue. I have MBQ with the Musicomps in my Honda, and I have the Alpine/Scan-Speak in the Acura. After listening to the Acura, I can hardly listen to music in the Honda for more than 20 minutes without starting to hate those titanium tweets, and they are low in the door, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elduderino, post: 772078, member: 557356"] 1) No, metal tweeters tend to overemphasize certain notes due to "ringing". Think about hitting a bell. It continues to vibrate [I]after[/I] you hit it. The silk tweeter has better damping, or a lower "q", and adds less to the music. 2) It's possible that a metal tweeter radiates heat a bit better, but neither enjoys much of a benefit in power handling. 3) With a 1" diaphragm, it is much easier to get a silk dome to have a lower mechanical resonance - you can get it to play lower and still sound good. Since cone mids have worse off-axis dispersion the higher they go, lower-playing tweeters are important for door mounting (less so for on-axis mounting - kicks and home speaks). This is why Dynaudio, Morel, DLS, Rainbow, Alpine/Scan-Speak, Phass/Scan, a/d/s/, etc., all use silk. 4) Over time the harsher ringing at the bottom of the range (the upper mids/lower treble) becomes tiring and contributes to listener fatigue. I have MBQ with the Musicomps in my Honda, and I have the Alpine/Scan-Speak in the Acura. After listening to the Acura, I can hardly listen to music in the Honda for more than 20 minutes without starting to hate those titanium tweets, and they are low in the door, too. [/QUOTE]

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