Test Bench: Fountek NeoCD2.0 High-End Ribbon Tweeter

The Fountek brand is now being manufactured by Shanghai Nada Technology (formerly Fountek Electronics), updating a large portfolio of high-end range of transducers (woofers, midbass drivers, full-range drivers, and ribbons high-frequency devices). The device that was sent to Voice Coil is the company’s current iteration of its Fountek NeoCD 2.0 ribbon tweeter. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, September 2023.

This Test Bench article characterizes a ribbon tweeter from Fountek Electronics. This company from Shanghai, with manufacturing operations located in Hefei (Anhui Province), sent its NeoPro 5i high-end ribbon tweeter, which combines a large 145mm × 15mm reinforced sandwich ribbon diaphragm with a closed-back injection-molded rear cavity, two aluminum heatsinks and a built-in transformer. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, July 2023.

Another issue of the indispensable Periodical for the Loudspeaker Industry, Voice Coil July 2023 offers the first part of a loudspeaker design tutorial by Peter Larsen. James Croft reviews two patents from Resonado. And serving a generous dose of Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the SB29SDNC-C000-4 29mm cloth dome tweeter from SB Acoustics, the M25 mkII 1" silk dome tweeter from Stereo Integrity, and the NeoPro 5i ribbon tweeter from Fountek Electronics.