I am considering trying to add a Neo3 to my open baffles. The literature on your site says their sensitivity is 96 but is lower when used in a dipole configuration. Is it more than 2 or 3 db lower? My current full range Fostex drivers are listed at 96, but I am sure that rating isn't for dipole usage. I can easily pad them down a bit, but obviously would like to avoid that if doable.
What happens in an open baffle configuration is that the Neo tweeter looses output in the lower ranges. The top end is virtually unchanged.
The biggest mistake typically when adding a tweeter to a full range driver is letting the full range driver play full bandwidth with no crossover and trying to supplement the top end with a tweeter using a low order network. This typically ruins the response as the comb filtering effects of the short wavelengths ALWAYS cause 15db dips and 6db peaks across the top end.
And as good as some of those full range drivers are the Neo's really outperform them from 2kHz or so and up.
Use a well designed network and cross the Neo's in no higher than 2.5kHz and it will work great.
