Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?

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Tyson

Re: Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?
« Reply #20 on: 16 Oct 2024, 01:33 am »
Thankfully, the Neo 3's design also makes it a really versatile tweeter. You can't say that about 99% of drivers on the market.
Many don't pay nicely with waveguides/horns without having issues with throat cancellations

Granted, you gotta spend some time prototyping and testing the design and seeing what does & doesn't work, which can take weeks, or months, of work depending on the amount of time you can put towards it.
(Which is why we don't supply the primary NX-series kits without flatpacks, or at least front baffles, even small changes to the design can make a big difference)

The deepest I can make the current waveguide is 1" deep (current is roughly .85" deep)
Any larger/deeper and I'll need to make a new design with a larger mounting area.

the trick right now is i have a couple looking to get the 3" horn we prototyped but im struggling to make a stand/mount that will look good, beyond just basic functionality.

Maybe mate it with an 8 inch NX midrange driver?

Glady86

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Re: Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?
« Reply #21 on: 16 Oct 2024, 03:55 am »
LOL, the Neo3 was specifically designed to be used in an OB application. 

In fact, it's FAR better than any other driver out there in OB applications because it has the exact same radiation pattern forwards as well as backwards.  Same with the Neo8 and Neo10's.  Identical dispersion patterns forwards and backwards make them the best OB drivers in the world.

 Some over there said the off axis response of the NX line is rough. So according to them, any speaker with a better off axis response would be preferable. All this came about from a poster who asked for opinions of the NX Studios. I posted some thoughts on my experience with the sound of the NX Oticas, but eventually the thread was locked.

Tyson

Re: Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?
« Reply #22 on: 16 Oct 2024, 04:00 am »
Some over there said the off axis response of the NX line is rough. So according to them, any speaker with a better off axis response would be preferable. All this came about from a poster who asked for opinions of the NX Studios. I posted some thoughts on my experience with the sound of the NX Oticas, but eventually the thread was locked.

It looks pretty good to me:




Glady86

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Re: Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?
« Reply #23 on: 16 Oct 2024, 05:03 am »
It looks pretty good to me:





I don’t see a problem, KEF and some others measure better so they must be a better choice according to these
people,  as if they can judge how they sound just from that.

Hobbsmeerkat

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Re: Did anyone ever blow a NEO tweeter from listening too loud?
« Reply #24 on: 16 Oct 2024, 08:53 pm »
Another thing to remember is that we use a 5dB scale for our measurements. (25dB window)
Most measurements (like Klippel) are typically done on a 10dB scale, (50dB window) so our measurements are more exaggerated than the standard.

For instance, here's the NX Bravo on both a 5dB & 10 dB scale
5dB scale

10dB scale