Soft vs Hard Dome Tweeters: Which One Is Better? 

I've always been a soft dome kinda guy. I'm old skool and my listening appreciation started in the early 70's. My first boxes were from Acoustic Research and featured a paper dome (soft). From that point on, I had a predisposition to loving the smooth highs that soft domes produced. Sure, I had friends who had speakers with horn loaded tweeters and mids but I wasn't a fan of that unrefined assault on my ears. They were more efficient but that volume came at the price of quality sound and ear fatigue. Even when I got into doing a custom car audio job on my old camaro, I sought out a pair of Philips soft dome tweeters...they looked like hockey pucks but sounded amazingly clear and clean without hurting my hears when the volume was pushed hard. On my current home system (non-home theatre) pure stereo, I'm still listening to and enjoying soft domes in my speaker set-up. For my ears and music tastes, I just can't beat 'em.

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I love working with the ScanSpeak Discovery D2608/9130 1" Textile Dome HDS Tweeter, formerly known as the Peerless HDS 810921 tweeter, although you do have to pad the tweeter's rising response, but the results are golden and it is only ~$75.00

I love beryllium tweeters. I've got them in my Revel Ultima Studio 2's, and the Super Tweeter in my JBL K2's. I also recently fell in love with the Magnesium compression driver in the K2's. It's fantastic. I've got aluminum tweets in my Totem's at my desk, and 11 soft domes around my theater. That said, I'm designing a speaker now and I didn't even question it, it's going to have a very good soft dome in it. I just love their non-fatiguing response and vocal response as they near the crossover point. It's not always about the diaphragm material used, but about its implementation both in the driver's motor and chambering, but also in the speaker designer's baffle and crossover design. I get customers who come into our store (I sell audio for a living), and they'll say something like "Well I know I don't want a metal dome tweeter". My next response is, you've probably never heard beryllium am I right? Usually, people with prejudice against a driver material, have likely never heard it done very well. That said, I do love a paper cone midbass driver, haha. You can keep your woven cones, lol.

For many years I had Polk tri-laminate tweeters in their RT line, CS400, RT55, FX500. Recently after some listening tests I moved to the Motion Tweeter in Martin Logan Motion 40. Both sound pleasing, but after breaking in, the Motion 40 sounds clearer.

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Ribbon or air motion transformers are the best tweeters. Extremely smooth, detailed but not fatiguing. Love my Emotiva Airmotiv 5S.

Have a set of Infinity rs525s with img woofers,passive radiators with Polycell tweeters. Found a nice pair of Emit r's I installed today and I'm blown away with the smoothness and incredible detail. Arnie Nudell and Cary Christie wrote the book on hi fidelity.

Hi Guys, I'm a fan of your site. Many years back, we had a B&W Floorstanding speaker with a metal dome tweeter, that was crisp and clear...however, I could never sit through a long listening session. Later on, I bought a beautiful pair of RUARK EQUINOX speakers with a silk dome tweeter....and wow....what a difference, I could really enjoy an eight hours weekend music session listening to my records. Initially I ran my speakers the usual way, but when I Bi-Wired them....wow again....I was really pleased with the overall sound improvement. After all these years, my Equinoxes still sound great even with CD's....and more recently Blu-Ray's. I do have a worry though, the dome tweeter seems to attract a fair bit of dust, and I'm not sure how you'd clean it, as the dome has a sticky coating. Hope to hear from you please. Cheers, Jeff

I have those same RBH aluminum dome tweeters installed in my custom reference towers modeled after the RBH-MC-6T. In my case I have 2 of those tweeters per speaker. In comparing them to my shielded Dayton audio soft dome "silkies" mounted in my HT fronts I'd say that the aluminum domes sounded a little cold compared to the warm sounding Dayton's. I'm used to those aluminum domes now but can;t really say in all honestly which I like more. They're both excellent dome tweeters in IMO.

Totally love Morel soft domes. Perfect detail and no listener fatigue. Great power handling, and great pricing. There are few better in sound quality, but none in their price range. Lucky find for me. They always get great reviews too.

I have to say I tend to prefer soft domes over metal. Though I have heard the Scan speak beryllium tweeter and I was impressed with it. I also have no complaints from the diamond tweeter used in the B&W 804D. I can only compare these since I have had a chance to listen to both of these for more than a casual listen. And I think I remember a Vandersteen metal dome that was really nice. Most of the time, especially in the mass market, metal domes sound harsh.

The tweeters in my Paradigm Cinema 70 V2's sound epic. Their made out of a polymer material and it's a dome and it sounds super crisp and clean and the highs don't get sharp or fatiguing. I love these tweeters.

I love the sound from the jbl l100t titanium domes. Those babies are terrific!

As a budget speaker hound I'm often eyeing high end speakers from the last decade, but finding data on them is difficult, but I've got a hot tip ;) using google's "way back machine, internet archive" you can pull up old websites from when these speakers were top of the line, and download their marketing materials, data sheets, diagrams, and all sorts of useful stuff. You can also use google's reverse image search to find higher resolution versions of images you may find. I've even found old speaker adds from hifi/audiophile magazines for sale on ebay which make for a fabulous accompaniment framed in the listening room. I found an add for my fantastically over-engineered KEF Q7's which have a cool uni-Q design with the tweeter in the center of the midrange, and a racetrack shaped oval woofer lol. The add is for the reference series which appears to have the same uni-Q array, it shows a frequency response graph of their 250mm racetrack driver against a "standard" {brand X} 250mm driver in distortion terms of the second and third harmonic. "The titanium dome Hypertweeter in it's chromed steel pod hints at the massively extended performance designed to deliver every last detail encoded in modern wideband formats. Radical new Uni-Q point source arrays ensure unrivaled dispersion. Faraday rings in the motor systems and independently-loaded bass drivers minimise distortion, and the use of thick section cast aluminum accounts for exceptionally inert enclosures." But it wasn't until I actually found the brochure on their old website from the mid 2000's that I discovered that my beloved Kef-Q7 had an Aluminum tweeter, "The new Uni-Q array on every model pushes the performance advantage even further. With its powerful lightweight neodymium magnet system developed from the Reference Series, the new 19mm aluminium dome tweeter reproduces vocals with total clarity. With a first resonance over 30kHz, it makes New Q fully compatible with the latest wideband formats." Which goes to show that even if you find a sweet add for framing on ebay, with what looks exactly like your speaker, it may not actually be the add to have framed up on the wall touting sonic virtues, and that google's "way back machine" is awesome for researching and comparing speakers.

I have titanium and aluminum from two high end manufacturers. My Morel soft dome is a perfect match for my Hivi F5 woofer. I replaced the domes in my older Canton pedestal mount with one pair using titanium (difficult to manufacture and sound good). The other pair has aluminum tweeters from model that has been around for a long time. With medal tweeters you have a long break in time (one manufacture says 100 hours). My two came around in 50 hours, and all are smooth. The advantage of metal is their ability to play louder without distortion.

Very accurate and exactly true about tweeters. Canton from germany makes great tweeters. I've had a silk dome and an aluminum/magnesium tweeters from this company and they have been very high quaility. Canton manufactures it's drivers. Just goes to show ya. Thanks for the great video.

guys thanks a lot for another useful video. You put a lot of things straight.

I bought my son some Emotiva Pro Powered speakers. That folded ribbon tweeter is pretty impressive.

Love your engineering-centric approach! No alchemic mysteries or hip-hopper hype for me! My best sounding tweeters are aluminum diaphragm Japanese (TOA, probably by Fostex or Coral) ring/slot compression drivers similar to the legendary JBL L65 077 used in their high end studio monitors and home systems. Uber efficient, high MOL, and sweet. They are in experimental hybrid TOA/Mitchell/University triamped mains, with a B&C 18" pro cinema sub driver in a DIY cab. Vintage PA gear components (mostly) that sound at least as good in combination as anything I have ever encountered in my 64 years. The midrange richness and imaging are simply stunning at 100db+.

I loved soft dome for home stereo and metal dome for car stereo. I have Dynaudio speakers for home and focal (beryllium dome) for my car.

This topic has been on my mind for ages. Thanks for bringing it up guys :) I have worked in the sound business for over 40 years. I had the chance to listen to just about all models of Thiel, Mirage, Meridian, ProAc, Mission, 3a, Cambers and PSBs first equipped with soft and later metal dome tweeters. Designers like Jim Thiel and Paul Barton thought metal domes measured better but to my ears, soft domes simply sound softer, not as hard, pardon the puns. My one and only reference when comparing audio products is live sound, metal domes sound more like hifi sound effects, sibilant and over cooked where soft domes remind me more of music. In the end, it's all about the tweeter, woofer, mids, crossover and enclosure working well together, not just highs, lows and specs, there must be synergy, seamless integration from top to bottom, soft to loud. Harbeth is one speaker company who's product I listened to recently that seems to embrace that concept. I'd like to know what's in their secret sauce.

Keep up the good work. People fail to realise that the best perspective of sound reproduction is from the ears of the elders, i am 35 so I heard the transition, yes things are not as good as before but new ears will never know the difference either unless using old equipment with old music and new music for a full range test...

I have some Nola Boxers and the soft tweeter on these things is transcendant. Zero fatigue.

when i eventually do a 'room tour' (lord knows whenever that'll be) i gotta show off this philips/sharp/infinity/parts express speaker i put together, it sounds fabulous. yes it has a silk dome.

Another vote for folded ribbon tweeters like that are used by Martin Logan Motions and GoldenEar. But if I am limited to domes, I think I prefer aluminum domes, as long as they are high quality like in SVS prime and ultra, and B&W CM series. I have a pair of budget bookshelf with the cheap-o Ti tweeters which tend to 'ring' in their breakup mode. Very fatiguing after just a few minutes at high volume. The Folded Ribbon guys say their tweeters breakup mode is well above the range of hearing, so they sound smooth.

What do you think about the ribbon tweeters ? I need help to compare it

Any insight on the folded motion tweeters typically found in Martin Logan speakers? I have a pair, and wondered how they compare to the soft and hard dome.

what about 1-inch silk/polymer composite dynamic balance dome tweeters

Lots of both are good and so so. I'm becoming a ribbon fane, seems like a cleaner, more accurate rendition of the high ranges.

I have Ei-Nis, 30 years old soft dome tweeter made in Yugoslavia, and to this day I havent heard something more soft and precise than that! But, now I gave only one. Any sugestions for me which tweeters to by. Thanks.

Thanks fellows , I always wondered that, and find the metal dome tweeters to be a bit nails on a chalkboard on certain notes. I have a pair of watt puppy 5's and they have soft dome tweeters. I find them to integrate better with the mid and sub.., a softer and gentler sound to the ear..I think I will stick with the soft dome tweeter. Could it be some people are just more sensitive to the metal sound than the silk or soft tweeters? I find myself to be one of those people affected by the metal sounding tweeter.

I am wondering how well the break-up is controlled in full-range or wide range drivers. The BMR driver covering 250Hz to 20kHz in Cambridge Audio Aeromax 2 and Aeromax 6. The full-range driver in Bose 901 VI. The driver covering 200Hz to 18kHz in Bose Acoustimass 5.

I am usually a soft dome guy but I am pleased with the svs ultra hard domes. I also like the ribbons had a hard time choosing the Martin Logan motion 60xt with ribbons or the svs ultra towers. I picked svs being that it's movies 80% of the time.

I wonder about compression horn drivers for tweeters I have the Peavey RX22 in my car they don't sound bad at all and keep up with a pair of 15's at 3000w rms from 1500 hz to 20K hz they sound good I like the solid compression drivers.

hey, i have a question material of diaphragm : paper vs plastic vs metal which one is better????

Hi there is the Kef R300 has a good tweeters ??? Thanks 🙏

I never really bother what kind of material the speakers are made of. I do bother how they sound, that is for me much more important. And also the looks are important: WAF is an important part of selecting speakers, especially when you like them big. My first speakers used horns both for the mids and highs; my next speakers I guess used a soft dome. I never really cared, so I'm just guessing because the dome was black. My current speakers are Magnepan 1.7s, these have quasi-ribbon speakers. A complete different approach compared to 'normal' speakers. I do like these 1.7s mostly for their realistic sound stage: the width and height they present. And, as a bonus, you can place the speakers with the tweeters on the inside or on the outside. I tried both and preferred the outside.

What is the quality of the dayton brand for Titanium Dome Tweeter or , Visaton DT94-8 0.8" Polycarbonate Dome Tweeter , which is better,Thanks

The best tweeter sounding i ever heard was mixin a beated up polk dome that i found on a flea market and a cheap titanium jbl- like, music becames real when i put those next to a 8" fullrange speaker, and some home made crossover

Was that the Scantic 9500 at 9:50 that you mentioned that is so good?

good review!!!!!! , it's a good option Faital pro 3fe25?

I was looking at RBH but their MC series of in-walls are not enclosed, what model in particular do you consider is as good or better than Totem kin in-wall? How about Definitive Technologies model RLS II?

AudioholicsLIVE I'm fairly familiar with soft and metal tweeters. But I am very curious about the other types of tweeters available, such as electrostatic vs. Piezo vs. Plasma/ion vs. Ribbon/Planar ribbon vs. Air motion transformer (AMT). Are any of these types significantly better than another?

The C30-6-024 by Accuton is a 1.2 inch tweeter with a ceramic dome and I love the sound they produce nice very nice 3d space. but like with evry thing there are so many flavors out there in the wild. Some Tweeter can sound harsh brain piercing with a aircoils but smooth as a angel with foilcoils its the sum of the parts and disign.

Was looking at some tweeter to my kitchen speaker project. I wanted it to be simple with 6 db crossovers, so the tweeter had to be good. There were many that had those aluminium cooler attached to it, that looked really fancy. But I wanted some that had a back champer, I knew from a pair of Esotec how beneficial it had to the sound. I found one, same price as those fancy ones. It was the tweeter that is used on Buchard S300, that is so revered now. SB26STCN-C000-4 My instinct was right......... Those fancy ones is a scam, If they need cooling, they are fundamentally wrong build. AND that they have no champer means there are compression issues in the dome.

Horn loaded and/or ribbon tweeters are the best!

I agree that QC and overall design decisions are more important than the material used. That said I have heard some really good polyester tweeters. Again QC and how it is used are very important.

Where do ribbon tweeters slot in, on the tweeter subject?

soft, because it sounds smoother in most cases. Although i have old Infinity's with Emit-R Ribbon tweeters which sound nice and airy/open, and very clear but soft on your ear.

2 companies tweeters come to mind that I'd like your opinion on. Goldenear and KEF Uni Q. Any thoughts?

Where does Infinity's EMIT-R ribbon tweeters fit into this analysis? And what do you think of them? Thanks

You made a commitment about car audio midbass and tweeter in a car door Boom and sizzle. I beg to differ on that thought becuse I had a set of infinity beta and beta tweeters that were silk dome in a 1994 toyota celica that blended very well. Its as you say some metal dome tweeters if done right can sound good. Same with the desine of speakers in a car. Now I got this perfect match just out of dumb luck. But that car you could put an 8" mid bass driver in the door and right by the door handel mount a tweeters mine were 1 1/8" silk domes that played down to 2500 hz JL audi makes a high end coax with metal dome and a rubber souround that helps with the harshness B&W s dimond series speakers should ver very good. But I still like the old Bob Carver amazing loud speaker and magnpans ribbons are your next step up from silk domes. But who are we fooling how old are you 40s 50s you cant hear 20k anymore your best hearing at you age is 15k Infact if your older then say 20s you cant hear above 15 to 17k hz a 12 year old hears 20k unless you have dog ears you cant. So buy what ever sounds best for you giving advice on speakers is the dumbest thing you can do. Taking advice from somone is even dumber. Use your own ears I cant tell you what you can hear I dont have your ears. I can show you what sounds good to me But thats about it. You have to be your own judge. Were all exposed to differnt sounds and life styles we all hear things differently. I doubt I'd get an offer to write but ive also got a vast amount of experience over the last 50 years. Im more like a metal dome tweeter talking about it. HARSH.

I once played with some metal dome tweeters for a Thiel CS3.6 speaker and they sounded really good as long as you stay within its designed parameters. They sounded awful beyond that. But you know all these tweeters sound colored compared to electrostatic tweeters.

I have Focal electra 1008Be and I'm amazed with it's sound, beryllium is the best tweeter ever!!! You guys have to experience it, now I won't go to anything else:)

My Vandersteen 2CE signatures (version 1) have an "alloy" dome... I wonder which alloy? I've never had a problem with them sounding harsh, but they also aren't the most detailed tweeters I've heard. The speakers more than make up for the HF detail in midrange clarity, taught, deep bass and spaciousness. I'm curious if anyone at Audioholics has any experience with Vandersteen. I don't recall seeing them get a mention...

The dome tweeter and midrange drivers were invented by Edgar Villchur of Acoustic Research. Introduced as the famous one inch fried egg tweeter in AR2a and AR3 it was later replaced by a 3/4 inch version. It's purpose was the best possible dispersion. Paper was an excellent choice. Paper pulp fibers efficiently damp energy between each other while metal does not. The wide dispersion of the AR tweeter is due to its geometry. It is small 3/4 inch instead of one inch, it is a full half sphere dome, and it is not recessed. As a result it was down only 5 db at 15 khz 60 degrees off axis. No dome tweeter you can but today comes remotely close. But that wasn't good enough for Roy Allison who designed it for the AR3a. In AR LST, a souped up AR3A he used 4 tweeters and 4 dome midrange . All 4 midrange and 2 of the tweeters were mounted on 45 degree side panels making lateral dispersion even greater. That speaker was also marketed by Saul Marantz as the Cello Amati. In a later design on speakers bearing his own name brand he devised an even wider dispersion tweeter using a principle not too dissimilar from MBLs where the sound radiating from the equator is opposite in phase from sound radiating from the poles.

I'm curious to find out your thoughts on the B&W diamond tweeter vs the beryllium tweeter. I noticed you don't do a lot of reviewing of B&W but wanted to see if there was a reason for it. thanks

AMT / Folded diaphragm are my choice. No harshness at all, and incredible "air", spaciousness, and depth.

Fostex t945 was one of the best. Shure miss them.

The focal inverted dome tioxid used in (my kit speakers) and the wilson-watt puppy 5 was ass. Went off like a fire alarm with resonance. UGH. Beryllium does not resonate like other metals. When in doubt? Scan speak revelator. The $350 Vifa silk is amazing.

I know, old video. I typically like the presentation of silk/soft dome tweeters. Metal domes seem to sound great with classic recordings for some reason, but soft all day long for modern recordings

what do you think about cone tweeters? are they any good?

i have papper tweeters in my old jvc s 66

Great info. Whats are the collective's thoughts on diamond tweeters like B&W incorporates on some models?

What do you guys think of the klipsch titanium tweeters in their reference line? Cheap or did they do a good job?

I wander if JBL 580 -590 has an soft or a metal tweeter / horn? (1″) compression driver with neodymium magnet and one-piece Teonex® diaphragm on a glass-filled ABS Bi-Radial horn, magnetically shielded

Is there some kind of paint or rubber that could be used to soften the oil-can resonances of a metal tweeter, I imagine a dobb of silicon on the tip of the dome, or a thin layer of paint could help. Maybe even some spray adhesive with tennis ball fuzz sprinkled on it, or some down.

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Quick question for you guys, what are your thoughts on the tweeter use by Totem Acoustics in the kin in wall speakers and to what Tower speaker of any other company will compare sound wise? Thank you for your help and all your awesome reviews..

I have two 3/4 inch soft dome tweeters and 3, 1 inch plastic tweeters and I have 2, 2 inch paper tweeters and 2 1/2 inch metal tweeters from back in the day

Nice

I build my own speakers for my main audio system and all my speakers have fabric dome tweeters. In my outdoor speakers and in my boat, I run metal dome tweeters as I "feel" that the metal will be more water resistant, plus in a boat, I am not concerned about audiophile sound -- just load :-)

what about the polydome Infinity?

Do you have any video's on Ribbon tweeters?

What are your thoughts on ribbon tweeters?

It's performance application. Plus a soft dome can unpopped cleanly if a kid has poked it.

I like soft domes. Whatever happened to the great plastic soft dome tweeters B&W made in the 1980s? They were really fluid and natural sounding. I have never heard diamond tweeters. Maybe they are better, but how many people can afford them? I heard one beryllium tweeter and found it difficult to listen to. It was impressive, but not musical.

good!!!

Soft dome tweeters have been around since 1958 but, very few brands use them back.

ScanSpeak Classic D2905/9500 1" Tweeter Textile Dome this is the best tweeter,,i beg to differ my friend..for the price its good but for 40 more bucks you can have the one with the cool phase plug..

Soft vs hard dome tweeter.. in the end it dosen't matter what really matters is your ears. Do a blindfolded A/B test where you can switch between the speakers with music playing without knowing wich speaker is A or B. Tell your friend which you liked most liked A or B? and then your friend can reveal which one is A and wich one is B.

I have yet to hear a metal dome tweeter I could stand to listen to. I heard one beryllium dome tweeter in a two way 5.25" woofer bookshelf design by Paradigm ($1,500) and it was impressive but cold and not musical. It was like listening to medical equipment. I have heard that even the big Andrew Jones designed beryllium TAD speakers that cost as much as a house are cold and analytical. I like to enjoy music, not examine it, so I only buy soft domes. I have not heard diamond domes or the Infinity ceramic covered domes. Maybe they are better. I suspect it is more than just break-up modes involved and there is some difference in the way the sound propagates from a soft dome that makes it sound more natural. I also like air mounted tweeters. When you put tweeters in cabinets, it destroys the imaging.

What about bose 161 speakers they are full range drivers which don't have tweeters

Polk Audio use to make a titanium tweeter that was the best I have ever heard but for reasons unknown they stopped making the tweeters. Someone stole mines and it was like they took the brilliance of my sound system away. I went to buy another set and was told they didn't make them anymore and I ended up getting some Polk Audio silk dome tweeters and it just wasn't the same 🥺 😢.

Just curious where does MartinLogan's folded motion tweeter and ribbon tweeters fall in this game just one aspect i'ld like you to cover is the claim by ML that the surface area of the folded motion is 10 to 12 x the size of these other tweeters

Not only do my ears prefer silk domed tweeters the only speakers I can enjoy anymore are McIntosh line arrays ,I have pics of my 2 pairs of XRT-22s and my single pair of XRT-28s on your site under username Highfihoney ,I had the chance to audition my silk domed tweeters XRT-28s directly against McIntosh 110 driver XRT-2k flagship line arrays in a side by side audition ,I went in planning on dropping $80,000 for the Titanium domed XRT-2k line arrays and wound up preferring the XRT-28 silk domed line arrays much more for Jazz Rock & Heavy Metal ,paying $16,000 for the XRT-28s & getting a better sound over the new $120,000 msrp XRT-2ks was a huge savings with better sound .

Hey guys which one would be better 1 or .75 inch soft dome tweeter?

I have a pair of Ess. 1. c. Liv Tyler Transformers

I've been a soft dome (Dynaudio) guy my entire life but I gotta say the UniQ driver in the Kef LS50"s is pretty good. There is nothing worse than a metal dome that rings except a horn loaded ringing metal dome tweeter. Make it STOP!

I've heard both types that sound great, and both types that sound bad. My opinion is the same as these guys: tolerances, build consistency/alignment of parts/QC is the difference between good and bad. That's why the Danish and Italian companies tend to manufacture the very best drive units, as thier quality control/assembly is on point.

I tend to favor soft dome, but probably because it's what I seek out.

Considering that they're into sound, the audio for this video is quite bad

"Beryllium breakup mode at 30 khz!" Diamond: Laughing in 72 khz Ribbon: Laughing in 100 khz

To have most fun sound use paper sub and metal tweeter

I forgot to mention the fact that many also don't undetstand the best ways of input source wiring to whatever the output amp wiring is so in most cases many people use inadequate input sources for full quality which nowadays does require us to use the manual or auto dsp settings mixed in with fast/slow attack settings to boost/smooth sound output.. With the ever increasing of so called music lovers converting low bitrate files to mp3 and never using wav files ir alike to begin with they will always find themselves looking for more methods of power to boost dead signals that always have hidden digital silenced hum meaning the audio of interest signal will never occupy even 70% of the input feed the output amp see's..

i got a small dent in my tweeter of radius 90 speakers,as far as i know there is no difference in soundquality?..should i be concerned i always put the grill but it's in back on my mind whenever i play music..

Gentlemen I have to say that having owned many different speakers in my 57 years unless price is no problem I'd stick with the silk dome tweeter, imho much smoother response better overall sound . I love my Source Technologies 277 SEs John Solecito really knows his stuff . Of course these are in the 4K a pair range . But unless you buy hard domes in the 10k and above range they tend to be to bright at least for my taste .

I realize this video is two years old. Bob Crites ( The Klipsch guru) recommends replacing the OEM soft domes with Titanium. I subscribed to his thoughts and was very impressed with the change. We ain't talking Beryllium in a 50k speaker. According to you guys, Titanium is cheap crap. I beg to differ.

I have the Paradigm Monitor Series v5 speakers. They call their tweeter a High Efficiency-Pure Titanium Dome (sounds like snake oil). I am totally happy w them but I wish I could hear what a $50,000 speaker sounds like. Is the difference night and day?