Tweeter On Human Voices???
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Originally Posted by Peter Duminy
A tweeter that has been really damaged would have an unmistakable "raspy" and "tizzy" texture to it, especially on human voices, especially female singers. As ruadmaa also noted, the other symptom is no output at all. :) <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_83629", true); </SCRIPT>
Peter, tweeters do not play human voices. Human voices are far too low in frequency to even be considered playable by a tweeter. Average crossover points for a 3 way speaker system are 600 and 6000hz. The human voice doesn't go anywhere near 5000 hz. His tweeter WAS NOT damaged by a human voice. Tweeter damage results when there is a very shrill high frequency blast that is amplified far too loud by an amplifier. Mostly this kind of thing is done by an accident of some sort. (Playing a recording at double or triple speed too loudly will burn out a tweeter) It takes a fairly high frequency to "fry" a tweeter.
Tweeters Reproducing Human Voice???
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Originally Posted by Peter Duminy
1. The poster has a pair of Tannoy Fusions x-over 2.9kHz. This is a 2-way system.
2. I never said he damaged his speakers with a human voice. I merely suggested that a female voice could excite audible resonance in a tweeter if it was suffering from damage.
3. Tweeeters do in fact reproduce parts of the spectrum of the human voice, especially in a 2-way system.
Peter, the top end of the human voice (male or female) is just over 1 KHz. His speaker is crossed over at 2.9 KHz. How is his tweeter reproducing any part of the human voice whatsoever??? There is no part of the human voice reproduced by a tweeter in any system that I have ever heard of.