Good morning, sorry to set you off down down the rabbit hole of ferro fluid!

Well here’s a question to keep you in the darkness of despair……

It sounds tricky to get fluid tolerances just right and it’s a system where it’s days are possibly numbered in terms of maintaining quality…..( 20 years or more is pretty good…) but there must be a good reason / advantages that a designer would choose that? There must be sonic and or mechanical benefits , one of which I’m guessing is cooling and or damping.

Now I’m curious what other tweeter designs are out there , how they work and the benefits of those choices designers have to make. For example why does Klipsch choose a horn over others? ( just picking the obvious) or ribbons come to mind…..


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