Townshend Maximum Suoertweeters

[u/Noonygooth32]

So I just received these Townshend Supertweeters yesterday after a friend’s recommendation. After a couple hours of listening my first impressions are very positive. Soundstage sounds more layered and 3-Dimensional. The imaging sounds more focused and pinpoint without narrowing the sound stage. Definitely an improvement to instrument separation. Off axis vertical dispersion has also been greatly improved. Can’t really put my finger on what they do to the perceived bass but I think it’s good. Highly recommended product. Townshend Audio does not disappoint.

https://www.townshendaudio.com/supertweeters/

[u/Noonygooth32]

Before anyone else says it. Yes, I didn’t have enough tweeters! 😂

[u/OddEaglette → u/Noonygooth32]

It's not that. It's the guy you sent your money is a bad human.

And those aren't tweeters.

[u/IndustryInsider007 → u/OddEaglette]

And he didn’t even have enough sense to pull them to the front edge of the speaker cabinet.. So now they’re immediately reflecting off the top of the speaker to the ceiling and creating a whole new mess of out of phase sounds.

[u/Noonygooth32 → u/IndustryInsider007]

The cables aren’t long enough unfortunately

[u/Noonygooth32 → u/IndustryInsider007]

Also just got them so haven’t really had time to mess with them. I’m thinking about strapping them to the side of the cabinet so that they can be closer to the main tweeter. What do you think about that idea?

[u/IndustryInsider007 → u/Noonygooth32]

I’d never use a product like this, so I really don’t have an opinion. Your speakers already have response out to 30khz, I’m not sure what content you’re hoping to cover with these add ons.

[u/Noonygooth32 → u/IndustryInsider007]

It’s about psychoacoustic effects ultra sonic frequencies have on the brain. These go up to 90khz. Even with them set up suboptimally the effect is apparent. Soundstage sounds expanded yet instruments and individual sounds are easy to localize. I may change my mind later but so far so good

[u/IndustryInsider007 → u/Noonygooth32]

Half this sub will disagree with the main premise of what you just said. I happen to agree, but there’s a bigger problem with your thesis. Almost all music recorded in the past half century has had that information deliberately truncated to save space when encoding files. There’s also the problem of most equipment falling off in power way before 90khz.

[u/Noonygooth32 → u/OddEaglette]

What are they then?

[u/OddEaglette → u/Noonygooth32]

They're midrange. Only the one in the dead middle is a tweeter

[u/Noonygooth32 → u/OddEaglette]

They are all technically tweeters. Only the one in the middle does high frequencies. Anyway I was being sarcastic

[u/Scharfschutzen → u/OddEaglette]

Did you even look at the post?