Test Bench: The Excel 29mm T29X001 Home Audio Tweeter from SEAS

The SEAS T29X001 tweeter, from the company's high-end Excel line of transducers, is a wide surround format type, like the original Vifa DX/XT tweeters, and combines the latest Composite Sound metamodal thin-ply carbon diaphragm (TPCD) technology with the seriously outstanding SEAS Excel radially charged Hexadym motor structure. This new tweeter makes the Norwegian manufacturer effectively the first company in the market to offer the latest metamodal TPCD diaphragm solution.

The February 2024 issue of Voice Coil is now available, and it includes a major resource for all speaker designers and manufacturers, which is our annual Loudspeaker Cone and Dome Manufacturers Directory. In Test Bench, you can find characterizations of the new SEAS Excel T29X001 home audio tweeter, the first transducer to incorporate Composite Sounds' TPCD metamodal technology. The second driver in Test Bench is Eighteen Sound's latest 8NTLS2000 8" high-power handling woofer, for professional audio applications.

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