DyNaupio’ 4 TECHNOLOGY UNLIMITED 44inch (28 mm) soft dome tweeter for 2- and 3-way systems with supertweeter also in 4-and 5-way systems mobile hifi commercial and PA ‘The D- 28 has the soft roll-off suspension most advanced tweeter vented magnet motor technology. Regularly improve- aperiodically damped ments have secured this position Hexacoil technique for many years. Professional users Magnaflex cooling / damping value the enormyous dynamic range flexible connector wires of more than 127 dB SPL without high power handling compression which is important with to- dynamic range more than days high class high power electronic. 127 dB -no compression ‘Tho exceptional shape eases the time align- very high efficency ment and improves the efficency without any very low THD hom characteristic. ‘The rise time of a speakeris measured by means of a STEP-FUNCTION. The total is set to be 100 %, then 10 % and 90 % are marked. The first 10 % isthe phase of acce- Ieration, the last 10 % is the deceleration phase ofthe diaphragm. The 80 % between both marks are definedasthe movement ofthe diaphragm. Thetimeneeded forthis phaseis called the risetime. Thestep function ofthe D-28 oftenisusedasascientific ‘example because of its linearity. TONE BURSTS Tone bursts are the bestway to obtain an accurate picture of overall acousticpertormance. Regrettably they aremostly used onlytotestrise-time and ringing -which showsmuch more clearly witha stepfunction test!Withatone burst athe moving parts of aspeaker can be loaded without burning he voice coil. With agiven frequency the SPL should be30dB higherat1000W input when compared witha 1Winput ifthe outputslinear. Thistest shows the driver's abiltyto repro- duce the transients without compression. The right picture shows that even a 1000 W inputis not the limit:the dynamic response is absolutely linear. Data sven in catalogues (and even test ° reports) normally are calculated ® @ figures and not measured values. erator)” @ gen generat { This compression effects either Ww 1000 W 7 under tted or ignored very ten ‘That is why many speakers do not produce SPL's above 100 48, in | 2-28 | oe] Spite of higher theoretical spec- output ie | cations. However thistest si eo exposes such anomalies between ah 5 calculations and actual li bh S308, (rosie 123, necsinements: Oe 8 }DYNAUDIO’ Eine 808 ‘The 30°and 60° off-axis curves prove clearly thet the special house construction has no directional/horn effect at all. a tee pee tot 3 men wer RUS onesie F—200 2 wept 100 ome =a ay ea a ‘The acoustic phase runs linear up to 50 kHz. Saag lew Peto BOGE What other system has datas like these? Intermodulation distortion level had to be raised by 40 dB. Compliance: ‘Overall almonsions: ‘@ T0xs5mm suspension ome = Power handling coustic cas | * nominal DIN 900 W fequivlentvolume Yas music DIN 1200 w Cone: transient s0ms 1000 W ‘tt conearea 8D 85 om? actor: moving mass Mms 051g mechanical Oms 0,81 Tinyoldisplacement Yo 6.0 cm? ~—— electrical Ges tt rmech.rosistance Rms total Gts 0138 limexcursion P-P Xmax 07 mm Resonancetrequoncytreeair: fs 7OOHe max excursion P-P 282 mm Sensitivity swetm 03d3 + Frequency response 1200/25000H2 —_voicecal Harmoniccisiorion 03% diameter 28 mm Intermodulaiondistorion: — < 0.085 % length ho 32 mm Magneteystem: layers n 2 total gap tux 340 Wo Inductance (1KH2) Le 0amH ‘tuxaensity 1.52 Tesla nom. impedar Zw 8 o sepeneray 156 msi impedance Zmin 64 forcofactor ext 4200 Tm Dcresistance Re 53.2 virgepvolume Vg 18 em pata given areas eter 20nours of unning sirgap heignt 25 mm airgap wiatn 075 mm Netwoigt: a) ‘ Thiele/Smallparemet re measured not taicllybutdynamically. Atspectteations su! Fochangewinoutnotice, DYNAUDIO tweeter and midrange domes are always made of special soft cloth. This is important for the resolution and the precision of the response of the high end. A certain bending pattern is un- avoidable tothedomematerial whi- eforcingitbackand forwards. With soft material this effect is not audi- ble, The harderthe diaphragm ma- terialsis (.¢. plastic, aluminium, tita- rium, beryliium etc.) the more this bendingeffectisheardandmeasu- red as the distortion potential. 5/8