045Be - Super Tweeter

[Steve Gonzales]

thanks for the link, I had looked at that before, a little CRS is setting in at the ripe ol' age of 42 What a magnificant piece of engineering !

[Maron Horonzakz]

WHAT???? No diamind surround????

[Don McRitchie]

Nope. Doug Button has removed the diamond surrounds on all of the recent JBL compression drivers. The diamond surrounds were a workaround to gain better HF extension by taking advantage of the resonance of the surround. Doug prefers to rely on the natural extension of the diaphram material, and where necessary, rely on equalization to extend the response. This eliminates the transient smearing that occurs with parasitic resonance. His use of smaller and lighter 3" diameter diaphragms inherently results in greater extension while his unique suspension design means that they can accept considerable EQ with no loss in power handling compared to previous drivers.

[Maron Horonzakz]

Ahhhhhh !!! Back to sanity And good engineering at JBL. I was worried they would go to diamond foam surrounds to satisfy marketing dept.

[hapy._.face]

It's been a few good years now, and like the flying cars we were all promised- I don't see the 045Be available to the public unless you pony for the K2. I am finding the ever cool looking UT-045Be which (according to my crude Japanese web page translation) is a stand alone version with feet and a network card (right?). At 500,000- 525,000 yen...she's about $4K a pair.

Harmon in Woodbury claims not to have any, and dealers ask at least several times '...you want a WHAT!?' and '...what the hell is that?'

So....where does one obtain the seemingly unobtainable 045Be? I'm totally serious.

[norealtalent]

I don't know about the tweeters but I've got a buddy who claims to have managed coralling me a brand new pair of 435Be's. I'll introduce him next time you come up. Maybe he can help you out...

[speakerdave]

I don't know about the tweeters but I've got a buddy who claims to have managed coralling me a brand new pair of 435Be's. I'll introduce him next time you come up. Maybe he can help you out...

Share, Mr. Talent, share; there's a good fellow!