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I noticed the pricing on XT, DX, and BC tweeters at Madisound have finally made the expected price jump.
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/soft-dome-tweeters-vifa/
PE still has normal pricing, but lead times for most of the good ones are anywhere from 2 to 6 months - not sure how long they will honor current pricing.
https://www.parts-express.com/speaker-components/hi-fi-woofers-subwoofers-midranges-tweeters/tweeters/brand/Peerless-by-Tymphany
Le sigh.
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DX25TG5904 is still CAD$26.24 at Solen, with 9 left in stock. I imagine the price will go up once the current stock is out and they have to order a new batch, we'll see.
This is going away too. Clearance priced.
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/hard-dome-tweeter/vifa-dq25sc16-04-1-titanium-dome-tweeter/
That looks really nice. Anyone heard/used them?
Thanks for the heads up JR. While I don't really need any more tweeters... I might order a pair or two before they price jump at PE too. The Beast Mode up $10 each!!!
I really strongly dislike the DQ series of Vifa tweeters. I feel they are junk and need thrown away.
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Not sure if I've ever heard the DQ series. As far as you know Ben, have they been used in anything I might have heard at InDIYana or DIY Iowa?
Poor Man's Monitor in 2010, maybe. Not sure.
I used the DQ years ago with a 5.25" HDS. J Kim helped me with it on PETT. I still have them stowed away somewhere. The DQ is definitely the weak link in that design. I liked it's truncated cousin the BC25SC55 much better. I used that one with the same woofer for my brother and thought it sounded a little better.
Dunno, Craig. Zaph, Moosespeaker, and maybe one more??
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Seems like the DQ25SC16-04 was all the rage is some circles way back when. I also remember Wolf has never been a fan. This design may have materialized on a stage somewhere but I can't remember for certain. It is the tweeter used in the ZA5 kits.
zaphaudio.com/ZMV5.html
Zaph was a fan of it which made it popular with his followers by proxy.
Hificompass measurements show nothing terrible with it, in fact quite good performance for a budget tweeter. It does fall apart in the lower frequencies at high volume, so if you like to crank it, minimum 2500Hz crossover is a good goal.
https://hificompass.com/en/speakers/measurements/vifa/vifa-dq25sc16-04
It just had this horrible 'broadband glare' (Rory's words for it) issue that I could not stand. It makes it sound broken, cheap, and just plain garbage. I welcome its demise.
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I may be insufficiently critical, but I have one in Zaph's ZA5 center channel from Madisound, and I found it unobjectionable. The midrange is definitely the star of the show; Zaph's driver is really sweet-sounding and detailed as a mid. But the tweeter never jumped out at me as problematic, and had a fair amount of detail. Not as good as a 27tbfg or in the same league as a da25tx, but for the money, rather good. I prefer it to the dc26nc small flange vifa tweeter I have in another similar mtm, but obviously, crossover is different, so hard to say how much is that. YMMV
Yes to both. I found it fairly straightforward to use and pleasant to listen to. I also liked it in Jeff's NCDIY kit.
Forgot about the NorCal project, but i never got to hear them either; Jeff's or my simmed xover.
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I hadn't known that at the time, otherwise I would have brought them with to Chi-town instead of the Iron Driver project.