Can't Hear The Highs? Time for a Tweeter Upgrade! PLUS a Wee Rant!

Описание: Hello again! It's been a while.
The tweeter upgrade takes the freestanding "super" tweeters I added to the system last year and installs them in place of the tweeters in my main speakers. I then took the original tweeters and mounted those on the back to make the speakers true dipoles. All done with the help of 3D printed parts. This makes the experiment I ran to test the idea more permanent and also reduces the problems associated with having two tweeter spaced apart (possible comb filtering).
Why the long break, John? Well, I got a bit burned out on the topic and that's normal for me. Audio is on again, off again for me and always has been. And getting deep into it causes the burnout that turns me away from it.
Also there's the ongoing problem of talking about a subject that is so full of bad or poorly understood concepts, and how that can be frustrating to the point of wearing you down. I started this channel (or more accurately, switched it to audio) to talk about the technical aspects of the hobby and to design and build audio equipment. But most of the audience for the hobby (obsession!) are only interested in the trivial, like comparing brands of speakers, cables and gear in the same price range and parroting the stuff they've heard that they want to believe. Maybe an apt analogy is to be someone who wants to play baseball on a team of guys who haven't even picked up a ball, but are walking encyclopedias on player's stats. They want to sit around and discuss OBA and ERA, while all you want to do is play ball.
Such is the way it is with everything, though. Most people don't do much that is practical and tend to avoid talking about or listening to stuff they prefer not to believe. And I knew this going in - I was a regular on a large audio forum almost 20 years ago and met with the same situation, and the way to deal with it is to step back and take a break until you build up enough stamina again to tolerate the stuff that ruins the hobby for many of us.
Unfortunately, like most everything else you might be interested in, the trivial dominates and totally eclipses the practical. That's because it cost nothing and required no effort to just sit around and discuss a topic, or watch videos on comparing virtually identically performing equipment and fool yourself into thinking you are learning something of value.
On one level I get it: most take the trivial stuff as entertainment and there are certainly worse ways to entertain yourself. I've done some of it myself before I knew better, so I do understand the attraction. But now it wears me down and I have to leave it all behind until my desire to get back in outweighs the deep slosh of BS that has to be waded through to participate in the hobby in a public way.
More videos to come? Yeah, I think so. I have a pair of speakers I started almost a year ago that I didn't finish and I also want to finish the case for my 10 channel amp and my sub amp. Plus there are some other projects I'd like to do and maybe some more practical testing that no one will understand and draw the wrong conclusions from.

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