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No sound coming from tweeter

You means vocals also will be coming out of the mid range? But i usually listen at considerably loud levels -20db
Almost everything you normally hear comes from the main drivers, NOT the tweeter. The only bit of voice you will hear coming from the tweeter is the leading edge of "s" and "t" sounds. But even then if you disconnect most tweeters, the voice will sound almost normal, but slightly softer t and s sounds than normal.
 
Almost everything you normally hear comes from the main drivers, NOT the tweeter. The only bit of voice you will hear coming from the tweeter is the leading edge of "s" and "t" sounds. But even then if you disconnect most tweeters, the voice will sound almost normal, but slightly softer t and s sounds than normal.
what about the speakers that dont have dedicated mid range? Like many bookshelf and some floorstanding too dont have mid range driver but only tweeter and woofer.
 
triangle borea br08
crossover is at 3500Hz.
Your speakers are a 3-way system, which means they have a tweeter, a midrange and two basses. Most of the musical material is in the domain of mid-bass and midrange, and there are very few extreme high tones.
As already said before, you should try with test tones of 5-15kHz and then only the tweeter would be heard.
 
what about the speakers that dont have dedicated mid range? Like many bookshelf and some floorstanding too dont have mid range driver but only tweeter and woofer.
Such two ways they have a mid-woofer driver rather than a dedicated midrange. The woofer is generally limited as far as deep bass goes (i.e. it is not a subwoofer).
 
Have you frequency swept the speakers? Both tweeters going at the same time is more common than many people think. Sweep the speakers at a medium volume and not too too loud and see what they are doing.
Ok. So i used this online tool and played some high frequencies. Good news folks. Tweeters are working. Tweeters kicked in near 2700hz. So that means thats is how my speaker is preset by the manufacturer? Is this will be same for all speakers? Because some brands like Klipsch they really promote their horn tweeters, but if majority of the music is played by the mid range then whats the point of having a different kind of tweeter or even have a tweeter?
I think my issue is resolved but I am left with more questions. Thank you.
 
Ok. So i used this online tool and played some high frequencies. Good news folks. Tweeters are working. Tweeters kicked in near 2700hz. So that means thats is how my speaker is preset by the manufacturer? Is this will be same for all speakers? Because some brands like Klipsch they really promote their horn tweeters, but if majority of the music is played by the mid range then whats the point of having a different kind of tweeter or even have a tweeter?
I think my issue is resolved but I am left with more questions. Thank you.
The tweeter does the very high frequencies. If you cover the tweeter with a tin can or something that does not touch the dome you will hear the difference. The speaker designer determines where the tweeter comes into action by making the crossover.(See image for a crossover.) Some 2-way speakers crossover at like 1500 Hz and others like a 3-way at maybe 3500 Hz roughly speaking.
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Instruments would not sound right without the overtones .

Try using an EQ tool and just remove everything above 3k and listen to some music it’s immediately obvious then .
Which reminds me.. Thank you. :D
Hey @Forty six and two are you using a equalizer on your PC system? if not I can set you up with some software. I run the EQ/PEQ thread here at ASR and I have free Windows software or paid for Mac software depending on what you need.
 
The tweeter does the very high frequencies. If you cover the tweeter with a tin can or something that does not touch the dome you will hear the difference. The speaker designer determines where the tweeter comes into action by making the crossover.(See image for a crossover.) Some 2-way speakers crossover at like 1500 Hz and others like a 3-way at maybe 3500 Hz roughly speaking.
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So i just checked the crossover frequency for brorea br08. It is 3500hz and for Klipsch RF800 it is 1700hz. I think thats why my tweeter is not playing anything and if i’ve Klipsch majority of the vocals will be played by the tweeter. Am i right here?
 
I’ve triangle borea br08 and pioneer vsx 1131 receiver.
Ooof, quite a new model.

Wouldn't it be under warranty?

So i just checked the crossover frequency for brorea br08. It is 3500hz and for Klipsch RF800 it is 1700hz. I think thats why my tweeter is not playing anything and if i’ve Klipsch majority of the vocals will be played by the tweeter. Am i right here?

You can still hear people, but it will feel like they have a sock in their mouth
 
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So i just checked the crossover frequency for brorea br08. It is 3500hz and for Klipsch RF800 it is 1700hz. I think thats why my tweeter is not playing anything and if i’ve Klipsch majority of the vocals will be played by the tweeter. Am i right here?
You are wrong here.

Tweeters never play vocals. They just play the ttttttt and sssss part of vocal sound. If a singer sings a word like "away" none of that will come from the tweeter.

Good news that you are learning so much.
 
You are wrong here.

Tweeters never play vocals. They just play the ttttttt and sssss part of vocal sound. If a singer sings a word like "away" none of that will come from the tweeter.

Good news that you are learning so much.
What about the Klipsch speakers? They dont have a dedicated mid range just a horn tweeter and woofers
 
Everything depends on the specific type of speaker and crossover where the cut for the tweeter is.
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What about the Klipsch speakers? They dont have a dedicated mid range just a horn tweeter and woofers
The "woofer" as you call it, covers bass AND midrange. Thousands of speakers are two-way (one bass/mid driver; one tweeter). For mechanical reasons most tweeters don't work below a certain frequency, so for a two-way speaker, the bass/mid driver is doing 99% of the sound for vocals (as well as the bass guitar and kick drum) with the tweeter supplying the ttttttt and ssssss parts of the vocal (as well as the initial sound from cymbals).
 
My two-way crosses over at 180 (yes, 180) Hz
 
Everything depends on the specific type of speaker and crossover where the cut for the tweeter is.
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I don't know the source of that but voices (both male and female) go well down to 80's with baritones go down to 60's with authority.
That's why some badly integrated subs with high x-over points far from mains makes such voices sound like they're coming from something enormous and not a mouth.
(even a "P" spoken a certain way can go down to 30's)

At the upper end it varies,there's also specific male voices going higher than 900Hz,approaching female ones.
 
At college the only speakers I had were based on these sorts of single "full range" drivers. They sounded awful.

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I don't know the source of that
 
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