A drummer strikes a cymbol, the cymbol vibrates 10, 20, even 30 thousand times a second. It radiates that sound over the 12 inch diameter of the cymbol. The tweeter has to vibrate the sound in the same way. So tweeters are round spherical, and small to spread the sound out into the room. A perfect tweeter would disperse the sound 180 degrees. Even so, our ears are really good at detecting where sounds come from, and we can her the vector and know the sound is coming from that little 1 inch round tweeter. It sounds like it is coming out of the speaker box!
The tweeter is also made small so the cone is lightweight because it has to vibrate 10, 20, or even 30 thousand times a second. But, attached to the cone is the tweeter voice coil. The cloth, aluminum, titanium, or diamond tweeter cone and voice coil move together as one piece. Even the lightest, most exotic material cones and voice coils have too much mass and inertia to go back and forth perfectly to reproduce the music.
The Heil Air motion Transformer is totally different. It is made of an ultra lightweight plastic, like Saran wrap, folded like an accordian. It has a mass 100 times lighter than the best conventional round tweeter. The less mass, the faster it can response to the input signal from the amplifier.
Plus, stretch it out and is is 10 inches wide by 3 inches or 30 square inches. High frequencies are radiated over 30 sq inches instead less than 1 square inch. So, by the time it reaches your ears in the listening position, it fills the room.
The music does not sound like it is coming out of a box.
A conventional 1 inch dome tweeter acts like a spotlight. The Heil Air Motion Transformer tweeter is more like a flood light.
The metallic sound of a cymbol sounds like a real cymbol without harshness yet with lots of detail. It reproduces a metallic "tingle" that convention dome tweeters just can't quite get right. That clarity, transient detail applies to the voice and guitar strings too.
All GoldenEar speakers use the Heil Air Motion Transformer type tweeter. And everyone reading this uses another invention of Dr. Oskar Heil. It is called the microwave oven.
On the left is shown the GoldenEar Triton Reference. It has the new improved Heil tweeter, two 6 inch midwoofers, and three 6 by 10 inch racetrack shaped subwoofer drivers powered by an 1800 watt built-in amp.
The tweeter, mid-woofers and subs are all blended together for excellent transition between the drivers.
They are finished in a real wood, hand finished high gloss piano black that fits in any decor. While the GoldenEar Triton towers are tall, the rounded front grille and sleek design lets them blend in your room, and not stand out as typical box speakers do.
Whether you just want to groove out with your vinyl and be blown away by your favorite movie in spectacular surround sound, GoldenEar Technology speakers are some of the best sounding, best value speakers on the market.
