Understood completely....
I think that perhaps the Diamond tweeter is the best tweeter to pair up with the kevlar since the diamond tweeter is able to reach lower before break up/distort.
Perhaps. It's hard to tell without measurements of the woofer and tweeter. I don't doubt it sounds good...I just doubt that it sounds as good as other, much cheaper designs could....nor do I think that it would sound as good as a 3 way using a smaller midrange and a larger woofer...but here I am speculating again.
Just looked on the website. Crossover frequency is 3.8khz! That's much higher than I would have expected to a 7" driver I would expect beaming from a 7" driver at 3.8khz would be crazy. There would also likely be breakup nodes on the kevlar driver much lower than that. Also crossing over that high requires a much faster crossover rolloff to avoid cancellation out of phase, than it would if it were crossed lower.
My understanding of the diamond tweeter is that the rigidity of the material allowed for much lower moving mass, resulting in a much more detailed presentation...as opposed to the ability to cross lower. As you cross a tweeter lower, you run out of power handling (as you reach the limits of the tweeter's excursion), but it appears it's crossed plenty high to avoid that.
Also, I think having a rounded enclosure for the tweeter like that gives you about the worst possible baffle step effect.
Don't have as much info on the Magico Minis, but would certainly be interested to know more about those as well. At first glance, they appear to be a better product to me than the B&Ws
Everything I've said comes from what I obsessively read about speaker design, but is by no means an expert opinion (ie, I could very easily be wrong about ALL of it!
). Maybe they have really good reasons for doing everything they're doing...and maybe it has a great result. It just seems like it would take some serious fairy dust to overcome the issues they've created for themselves with that design.
