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Fountek NeoX1.0-B
Categories: Fountek Drive Units - All Ribbon Tweeters
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The Fountek NeoX1.0 features Fountek's third generation ribbon tweeter technology. This design incorporates a larger surface area ribbon mounted in an aperiodic shallow horn resulting in an improved low end response / wider useable range with higher power handling than its predecessors. The 12x45mm ribbon is made from an ultra light (20mg) multilayer aluminium sandwich with a cross section of 0.015mm (approx 0.6 thou). Efficiency is reasonably high at 92dB.
The end tensioning clamps form a substantial heatsink for the low impedance ribbon and an impedance matching transformer is built into the back of the housing .
We recommend a minimum crossover frequency of 2.5kHz / 18db octave.
Frequency range | 1200Hz-40kHz | Nominal impedance (Zn) | 8 Ω |
Ribbon dimensions | 12x45mm | DC resistance (Ribbon) | 0.02 Ω |
Effective area (squared) | 540mm | RMS power handling | 20 W |
Crossover frequency | 2.5kHz/18db | Peak power | 38W |
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m) | 92dB | Faceplate (rectangular) | 98x69.5mm |
This is a nice tweeter! Bright, but not cold sounding - a real sparkle at the top-end which I always appreciate. Note that Willy's spec says that you should use a 3rd order (-18dB)
crossover, whereas Fountek actually specify 2nd order (-12dB) on their website - It doesn't really matter which you use, but I used 2nd order at 3.5k with no issues. Very wide dispersion characteristics make it an enjoyable listen, even well off axis. No idea about reliability yet, but I've been using it for a few months now with no issues - and sounding just as sweet as ever.
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Will & Caroline
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I've had my Mission 734s for about 30 years and for the last five or so the bass units have been falling to pieces. I was about to take the speakers to the tip, but didn't have the heart knowing how capable these used to be. I did a little internet research and these Monacor replacements appeared to do the job. Next day delivery from Willys was impressive, as was the killer sound once the replacements were fitted (which was a simple job). I'd forgotten how these speakers make the windows rattle. Very happy customer!
Excellent service from Willys-Hifi. Caroline was very helpful and patient when answering my queries. Please be aware that some soldering is required when connecting the tweeters. Something I haven't done since I was at school over 40 years ago! They do sound good though, listening to Smoke on the Water as I write , wow 😆
thx you so much for helping me geting the twiters for my speakers i hope all good for your bisnis in the futur and that it will never close i recemed you to the norwigen hifikluben its a store in norway for parts and hifi so you brobely will get order from ther now thx agine for the parts btw you need to put a bit of fome on the back side of the speakers for it to mount in the b&w cmd1 se to make them fit i will leave som pictur of the istalsjon
I always knew that Linn should never have stopped using Hiquphon tweeters. What I don't know is why it's taken me thirty years to fit a pair in my old Kabers. It's often hard to describe sonic character ....but to pinch Linn's old line from back in the day ...they're Simply Better.(even straight out the box with soldering iron still warm)
As my Kabers are passive,I had been a little concerned that the the 8 ohm nominal impedence of the OW1 would mess with the crossover slope. I needn't have worried....if its shifted the crossover point its much for the better.
Warm thanks also to Will and Caroline for a service in keeping with the outstanding quality of the Hiquphon product.
Alan
Been looking for a supplier of replacement drivers for some years.
Willy's HiFi had just the parts at a good price and they arrived in a couple of days.