Touchstone Tweeter Surrounds

jimdgoulding

jimdgoulding

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Hi. This is a little different from the generic products that have preceded it. It is pressed from all natural wool fiber for its aborption quality in a little thicker depth and is custom fitted to an individual speaker to surround the tweeter and damp the surrounding baffle area out to the cabinet ends. Waveforms that would otherwise be diffracted or are being diffracted see the wool instead of the baffle surface and cabinet edges and are absorbed.

Two things are happening when late arrving (diffracted) waveforms sum in. They are out of time and phase with all the drivers and cause a perceptible and measurable elevation in the frequency domain in the vicinity of the crossover. The former can cause confusion to tactileness (even a little hash). The latter a loss to evenness and transparency. When diffraction effects are removed, instruments and vocals are clearer in time, better separated and palpably truer and present. There is more transparency into recorded space. Your in or out-of-the-room stage becomes a more believable 3D experience.

Here is a link to some reviewer and customer comments. REG of The Absolute Sound gave what I make a '08 Golden Ear Award. He measures everything!

www.diffractionbegone.com (see pics+pay page and listen to a little interesting music while you're viewing)

Conventional box speaker owners with surface mounted tweeters, I invite you to hear this for yourself. Just send me an email and I will tell you what measurements I need (if I can't get them on my own). Your money is refundable if this doesn't strike you as easily worth the $55.95 per pair price plus $3.50 S&H ($7.00 overseas) and you return them.

Thank you. I'll happily answer any questions. With pleasure.

Jim
 
A reply from a customer:

"Jim, after a week of use on the VR1s and VR4JRs I'm convinced these pads are not going back. I really like what they do each of my systems. Overall the impact of the pads seems to be to create sharper transients, more detailed imaging and improved image focus and significantly truer-sounding instrument timber. The general impression is for instruments and vocals to have more of a live performance sound with the sound becoming freed of the speaker boxes. And finally, while nothing actually sounded harsh before the pads, with the pads there seems to be a more effortless, natural-sounding presentation of the music - as though there was some harshness I wasn't aware of that is now gone. It feels like I'm finally hearing what my system is capable of, what I've expected with every other upgrade and never found , and finally hear. Thanks for a giving me the sound I've been looking for.

Next week, at RMAF and I was looking forward to attending in order to hear a few speakers I've been interested in. But with these improvements, and the dreadful state of the economy, I can't imagine I'm going to hear anything that can beat what I now have with your pads, without paying what my entire system costs just for speakers. I think you just helped me get off of the upgrade bandwagon. Joe G."

Link to some reviewer and other comments and a couple of pics:

http://www.diffractionbegone.com/newblankcontact.html

What I make is guaranteed to be worth the small outlay. I might even become your new best friend.
 
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Jim - Hi!

Mine are still on my Royd RR3s after almost 4 years! I occasionally take them off, but they go back quite smartly - super little concept. A subtle effect, but very good value.

Another bump on me.
 
Thanks, fellas. Me, too, on my Meridians. Keeps on truckin . .
 

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