Specifications

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May 98
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Advanced low-distortion
woofer and tweeter designs
The drivers used in M&K's Satellite speakers have extremely low
distortion thanks in great part to their development using a speaker
driver measurement technique known as the "two-tone distortion test."
This severe test measures the distortion produced when a driver is
fed with a swept signal consisting of two closely-spaced tones. This
test has very close correlation to the perception of experienced audio-
philes listening to music. It is a breakthrough tool in improving the
sound quality of high-performance loudspeakers.
This technique made it possible for M&K to develop drivers that go
beyond conventional distortion measurements to accomplish truly
superior audible reproduction of musical signals.
The M&K-developed Transmission Line Dome Tweeter utilizes an
acoustic absorbing transmission line to establish a new standard of
tweeter performance, delivering cleaner, more detailed and natural
high frequencies.
The transmission line, which is a damped, absorbent-filled cylinder,
absorbs the sound energy travelling rearward (from the back side of
the tweeter diaphragm). Ordinarily, this rearward sound energy re-
flects off the tweeter's solid internal structure and radiates through the
tweeter diaphragm, resulting in audible coloration and time domain
smearing.
This extraordinary new tweeter reproduces music with tremendous
sonic transparency and delicacy, while maintaining the capability of
reproducing extraordinarily high output levels, so that it is fully ca-
pable of the tremendous dynamic range and continuous output levels
required for home theatre reproduction.
Transmission line tweeters are standard on the S-5000THX and the
S-1C.
Transmission line tweeter
Satellite Speaker Drivers