WTB: 035Ti tweeters

[mike]

I'm looking to buy some 035Ti tweeters. I need at least one but I am interested in buying up to four of them. They must be in excellent cosmetic and working condition with the correct JBL diaphragms. Let me know if you have any that you might want to sell.
Thanks,
Mike

myanchick@yahoo.com

[AudioGeek]

I have a pair of 035TiA's if you're interested. Need replacement diaphrams.

[mike]

I need some in good working condition. They are for my cousin. He has a studio and uses L100T's, L80T's and L20T's as monitors. They take a lot of abuse and every now and then he burns out a tweeter. He currently only needs one but he would like to have some extras.
Mike

[AudioGeek]

I hear ya. But let me say that, AFAIK, the MSRP on the 035Ti (complete tweeter) is $126., $115. for the 035TiA. The replacement diaphram for a TiA is $92. (I think), not sure what the Ti diaphram is, but probably higher that the TiA's.

What I've been told recently is the Ti was changed to the TiA version because the TiA turned out to be a bit less expensive to make. I'm told that sonically, there's no difference between them. Physically, the Ti has the +/- lead posts on either far side of the plate, where the TiA's posts are right next to each other.on the same side.

I'm not sure if he can fit the TiA's into the LxxT-series Ti tweeter holes, because of the spacing of where the lead posts are located. Maybe it can be done if a small notch were trimmed out to accomodate the difference.(?) I'm sure some of the more savvy JBL-geeks around here can help you with that.

Let me know if you might be interested in these.

BTW - just a thought: is he sure he's got plenty of amp power driving them? If he's going at them with high levels, it's often easy to clip an amp before you know it, and that sends nasty distortion spikes into the tweeters. They might not even sound distorted, but the spikes can be there.

I'd take the RMS (continuous) power handling of each speaker (say it's 150wpc) and triple it for the amp output (say 500wpc in this example), to be on the safe side with the 100T's & 80T's if I were pushing those speakers hard quite often. Something around 200wpc for the 20T's.

What he'd spend in initial outlay for the bigger amps will pay off in the long run with less driver replacement and down-time/aggravation.