alpine Infinity Systems Emit tweeter

Price Paid:  $110.00 from Other

Year / Model Reviewed:
 1999 Car EMIT

Strengths:
Sound Quality, durability (if you use clean power), price.

Weaknesses:
Rectangular shape is difficult to install. You have to be creative! I have my set on ball joint style mounts so I can aim them.

Summary:
These tweeters are great! I actually read one review here by a guy stating that he didn't like them from the start and removed them immediately. Well, I felt the same way at first but I knew they would sound better in time. Ribbon tweeters require a substantial "burn in" period. My EMITS sounded superb after about three weeks of playing them. I find them to sound very sweet and they have more volume than I will ever need. I use a 50 watt per channel amplifier(PPI 2050AM)to drive them and I have a set of Boston pro 6.5 inch woofers (driven by a PPI 2075AM). It's a great sounding package, certainly better than the Boston Pro tweeters, which were cruel to the human ears!

Similar Products Used:
None compare!!

Price Paid:  $100.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
 1985/INFINTY EMIT CAR TW

Strengths:
THEY ARE THE BEST TYPE OF TWEETER BAR NUN,BELIEVE ME THIS IS THE PERFORMANCE THAT ALL THE HI END TWEETER COMPANY`S SHOOT FOR,THEY HAVE UNMATCHABLE HI FREQ. EXTENTION,AND THE CLARITY IS ALSO UNBEATABLE,THEY ARE LIGHTNING FAST AND SMOOTH ABOVE 5K,THE CLARITY IS SO GOOD IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE RIGHT THERE,THEY HAVE A SOUND LIKE NO OTHER TYPE OF TW ITS HARD TO DESCRIBE IT SOUNDS LIKE AN INSTRUMENT AT CERTAIN TIMES WHEN A HI FREQ. NOTE HITS,THEY ARE SO ACCURATE YOU WILL HEAR THINGS YOU COULD NEVER HEAR THAT CLEAR WITH ANY DOME I DONT CARE WHO`S IT IS...

Weaknesses:
THE RECTANGULER SHAPE IS HARDER TO FIT IN TITE SPOTS THEN A 1"DOME,AND THEY ARE VERY DIRECTIONAL WHICH COULD BE GOOD OR BAD DEPENDS ON INSTALL,AND THEY HAVE TO BE CROSSED OVER PRETTY HI LIKE AT LEAST 5KHZ,THEY ARE FRAGILE TO THE TOUCH(IN OTHER WORDS DONT TOUCH THE RIBBON)AND IF YOUR SYUPID YOU CAN BLOW THEM WITH DISTORTION OR WAY TO MUCH POWER OR CROSSING THEM TO LOW WITH HI POWER,DONT GET ME WRONG THEY ARE FOR THE SMART AUDIOPHILE NOT THE HIP HOP KIDS...

Summary:
I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS GUY kevin IS TALKING ABOUT HIS BOSTON PRO`S AND MB`Q ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE EMITS,WHO`S THIS HIP HOP KID TRYING TO FOOL THOSE 2 SETS OF TWEETERS(MBQ,BOSTON)ARE THE WORSE,HARSHEST,EAR BREAKING,ANOYING TWEETERS IN A SO CALLED HI END COMONENT SET YOU`LL FIND.THATS WHAT I MEAN ABOUT ITS NOT A TW FOR DUMB KIDS,BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO USE THEM PROPERLY(ABOVE 5K W/CLEAN POWER)THESE KIDS JUST WANT LOUD LOUD AND LOUD,THEY DONT UNDERSTAND SUDLETY OR SOFT DETAIL AND OTHER AUDIOPHILE TASTE,BUT I`M TELLING YOU DO YOUR SELF A FAVOR,GET THESE EMITS AND MOUNT THEM UP HI AND FORWARD IN YOUR SALE PANELS OR IN THE FARTHEST MOST FORWARD CORNERS OF YOUR DASH AND CROSS THEM OVER AT ABOUT BETWEEN 5K AND 7K AS A SUPER TWEETER IN ADDITION TO YOUR MAIN COMPONENTS USING A PASSIVE OR ACTIVE XOVER AND ABOUT 40 TO 75 WATTS OF CLEAN POWER AND YOUR CLARITY WILL IMPROVE ALONG WITH THE SOUNDSTAGE WIDTH,HEIGHT,DEPTH AND THAT SPECIAL LIVE RIBBON SOUND...AND DONT LISTEN TO THAT IDIOT KEVIN ITS NOT HIS FAULT HE`S JUST A CHILD AND DOESN`T KNOW ANY BETTER,THATS IF YOU HAPPEN TO READ HIS POOR EXUSE FOR A REVEIW AMONG THESE REVEIWS....

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Summary:
NO WAY!This emit tweeter lags compared to Boston Pro and Mb Quart!
I've had these speakers and gave up on them right after I put them in.
I have puched these tweeters to the limits and killed them. I now run Mb Quarts and they can give me more and better twees then anyone can even ask for
I Feel sorry for myselffor ever having ever wasted money on infinity for their EMIT tweeter.

Summary:
I purchased a pair of Infinity Quantum 5s back in 1975. They use EMIT tweeters. To this day, no speaker I have heard comes close to the sound of these tweeters. The highs are simply fantastic. I was warned that they burn out easy and will have to be replaced often. In the 23 years I've owned them. I've replaced them once. The replacements have been doing fine for the last 11 years. I'd give them 10 stars if I could..

Summary:
I got these speakers about 3 years ago. They were simply the best tweeters i had ever heard. I had heard them in an audio show about 5 years earlier and wanted them ever since. They are very clear, and add a lot of spaciousness to the sound. You have to cross them over relatively high though (4500-5000hz)But the sound is unrivaled. I have them mounted to the underside of the the dashboard speaker grille so they are right on top of the 4" midrange drivers (boston rally) so they blend in really well with the mids. Ideal for dashboards with no location for speakers as they are very thin and can be surface mounted.
You must hear these before you buy any other tweeters. I got them for 150$ at soundcity. pretty good price for these gems.