Nice looking Fountek ribbon tweeter on sale at PE -- anyone familiar

mhardy6647

The new PartsExpress sale flyer has a Fountek ribbon tweeter (model "NeoCD1.0") for a hair less than forty bucks a pop. Not quite sensitive enough for me, but not bad at a quoted 90 dB DPL for 1 watt (into 5 ohms) @ 1 meter.

I don't know the first thing about this tweeter, except it looks nice :-P and the price certainly seems reasonable... so I thought I'd mention it here.

Anyone here have any ears-on experience with this driver?

http://www.parts-express.com/fountek-neocd10-ribbon-tweeter--296-701?utm_source=Retail&utm_medium=Email_Newsletter&utm_content=296-701&utm_campaign=email061815

erniejade

No idea but it looks good

mrbigbluelight

Being as I have no knowledge of this tweeter, I'll provide an answer.

As a thought, and being as I'm spending someone else's money, you might want to have a look at the AMT2-4 that Parts Express has.

http://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-amt2-4-air-motion-transformer-tweeter-4-ohm--275-092#lblProductDetails

15 watts, a little more sensitive at 92.5 dB 2.83V/1m.

There's two reviews on the AMT. I thought it was kind of karmic that one of them is by a user, Grizz240, that dropped some into a "pair of small $50/pair Polk bookshelf speakers" (R15 ?) with, in his opinion, excellent results,
I seemed to recall a "Grizz-something" on here a while back, but ...... can't look up users like you used to.

The main selling point of these AMT2-4's is that Emotiva uses them in their ,,,,, uhm .,,,,, "Liquid Motive Flubber Series" of speakers (or whatever they call them). Somebody (?) on here had a pair and commented that they were amazing sounding for their price,
(Not starting an Emotiva war, just saying).

Finally, as the be-all-and-end-all selling point is that I think the AMT2-4's look a little more gooder.