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      10-01-2012, 06:49 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Lkoan View Post
The poor sound from the tweeters my be due to low-end D/A converters in the head unit. The metal tweeters, because they are more accurate, don't hide the poor resolution of the D/A converters. Good D/A converters should fill in the gaps in the highly compressed satellite feed resulting is a decent sound.
True, but you can't put back what isn't there in the first place.
If the source is of poor quality it doesn't matter much if the D/A's are good.

Metal dome tweets can have good accuracy, but their tonal quality is not to my liking. Couple that with a poor source and the harshness gets accentuated with metal domes.

I have a set of JBL home speakers that came with titanium dome tweets.
They do have good accuracy but they too created hearing fatigue when listening for a long time at higher volume. I swapped them with a pair of silk domes and the improvement was excellent, just as accurate with a smoother tonal quality, much easier to listen to.
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