Tannoy ST-50 Owners manual

SuperTweeter ST50

The Tannoy SuperTweeter provides an increased immediacy,

airiness and impact making music more true to life

ST50 SUPERTWEETER

The ST50 SuperTweeter has been designed by Tannoy to provide extended high
frequency response that will enhance the listening experience. Modern
programme material and sources, such as SACD and DVDA, have driven the
requirement for loudspeakers with extended frequency bandwidth performance.
Always at the forefront of audio evolution, Tannoy has been developing just
such wide bandwidth loudspeaker technology over many years. Almost universally
applicable to any brand of loudspeaker, the new ST50 SuperTweeter excels with
extensive range of Tannoy loudspeakers both past and present. Once installed,
the listener will experience a far wider range of bandwidth information for
instruments than is possible with conventional loudspeakers.

The new ST50 SuperTweeter completes the musical picture.
It not only has the ability to resolve fine detail of high frequency notes but also

effectively enhances the listening experience even at lower frequencies. Music
contains transient information and rich harmonics beyond the range of human
hearing for pure tones. Even bass notes have leading edge transients reaching
30kHz with other instrumentation extending yet further. The leading edge of
a note, for instance the initial stick contact with the skin of a drum, is where
vital transients occur. Conventional speaker designs with a frequency response
upper limit restricted to 20kHz are unable to reproduce this essential detail.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

PERFORMANCE

Recommended amplifier power
Power rating to DIN IEC 268

Maximum sensitivity (2.83v @ 1m)
Nominal impedance
Frequency response (-6dB)
Driver type

Crossover type
Crossover frequency

Weight kg (lbs)
Finish

Up to 200 Watts
110 Watts RMS

450 Watts Peak
93dB

8 ohms
To 54kHz, usable output (-18dB) to 100kHz
25mm 25 micron titanium dome, 24

Karat vapour deposited gold finish, with
neodymium magnet

3rd order high pass
14, 16, or 18kHz adjustable

85dB, 89dB, 93dBLevel adjustment
150 (6) diameterDimensions mm (inches)

0.75 (1.65) each
Black with gold anodised Performance

Platform™

The Tannoy SuperTweeter however reproduces all these
transients, operating between the roll off point of the existing
loudspeakers and 54kHz; the SuperTweeter will accurately
reproduce the leading edge of individual notes. This allows
the listener to experience the entire bandwidth information
of the recorded instruments, with the result that music
information has restored to it the speed, impact and clarity .

In addition, by extending the frequency response by two
octaves the ST50 corrects time and phase response within
the normal bandwidth of human hearing. Taking these
acoustical phase anomalies beyond the range of human
hearing adds realism to the soundstage by improving
imaging and placement of instruments.

This factor explains why there are such superb acoustic
improvements in non-wideband audio systems, which are
bandwidth limited to 20kHz by Red Book standard CD or
amplifier design, when a Tannoy SuperTweeter is added.
The fidelity of which creates a breathtakingly airy, open
and involving soundstage, ensuring not just exceptional
technical accuracy but a thrilling true to life musical
experience.

Design features of the Tannoy ST50 SuperTweeter:

High stiffness titanium dome minimises effects of dome break-up
and extends frequency response • Neodymium magnet system
also extends frequency response by minimising eddy current losses
in voice coil • Copper clad aluminium voice coil on aluminium
former for high power handling • Provision for driver magnet
system earthing, to avoid interference and information masking
caused by radio interference • Gold plated terminals for optimum
signal transparency • Radio Frequency quality inductors in crossover
for good high frequency characteristics • Non-Inductive resistors
to avoid losses associated with normal wire wound types • High
quality polypropylene film capacitors, selected for high frequency
use • Unique Tannoy Performance Platform™ gives stable support
and variable adjustment for the ideal listening position

Tannoy Limited, Home Audio Division, Coatbridge, Scotland, ML5 4TF.

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Tannoy/TGI North America Inc., Suite 1, 335 Gage Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2M 5E1

Tannoy Nederland b.v., Anthonetta Kuijlstraat 19, 3066 GS Rotterdam.

Tannoy adopts a policy of continuous improvement and product specification is subject to change.

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