What’s with the funny-looking tweeter?

TRUTH B3031A/B3030A

What’s with the funny-looking tweeter?

Ribbon tweeters bring a level of accuracy and sophistication to high-resolution studio monitors that was previously unattainable.

They provide exceptionally wide horizontal dispersion (for a larger “sweet-spot”),

while holding the vertical dispersion extremely tight. And since our ribbon transducer diaphragm is virtually weightless, it reacts instantaneously to changes in the high-frequency content. Now, not only do you hear the dulcet tones of a flute, you hear the breath flowing through it... You hear the wind chimes bouncing off each other... You can hear the fingernails on the nylon strings of a classical guitar…

Power to the People

It takes quite a bit more than just a “bulletproof” woofer and a high-tech ribbon tweeter stuck inside a fancy box to make a studio monitor of this class. It also takes power — and lots of it! But even more importantly, that power has to

be matched to the individual high- and low-frequency tranducers. While some of our competitors are content to stick whatever speakers they have on the shelf into haphazardly designed boxes and then strap on a one-size-fits-all amplifier package, we build every single component from the ground up.

We pack 225-Watts of bi-amped technology (including a time- and phase-corrected active crossover) into

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every B3031A (110-Watts for B3030A), ensuring that you have the enormous power reserves you’ll need to drive them really hard.

Designed to Work in Your Environment

The ideal environment for listening is a room that is “flat,” neither too reflective (echoes) nor too absorptive (where the sound is muffled). But since all rooms are not the same acoustically, all TRUTH monitors come equipped to function in a wide variety of situations. Switches are provided to adapt the monitor’s low- and high-frequency characteristics for optimal performance specific to your listening environment.

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Another reason why ribbon tweeters are so supremely accurate is their ability to reproduce frequencies far above our normal hearing range. Even though we can’t hear these “ultrasonics,” the lower harmonics they generate do affect the way we experience the stereo image.

For instance, a 30 kHz signal is too high for us to hear, but we can hear its first sub-harmonic (15 kHz), second sub-harmonic (7.5 kHz),

and third (3.75 kHz), etc. All these sub-harmonics combine with the primary sound to create stunning realism.

Surround Sound Setup

Video Monitor

Surround Sound Decoder

Subwoofer

B3031A