Summary of Classy with a bit of a hairpin tweeter.

00:00:00 - 00:20:00

The Polk R100 speaker is a sleek and stylish speaker that offers great sound quality at lower volumes. However, when the volume is increased, the detail in the high frequencies becomes harsh and aggressive. The directivity index is 650 bucks a pair, which is great looking, but the speaker's listening window is also good. The speaker is "classy" with a "bit of a hairpin tweeter," but it's not suitable for getting crazy loud.

• 00:00:00 The Polks R100 speaker features a sleek design, low cross order cross over slope, and magnetic grill cloth. The drivers are rated at a five and a quarter inch turbine cone and are designed to reduce breakup modes. At lower volumes, the speaker sounds good due to the balance it achieves between the tweeter and the woofer. When the volume is increased, the detail in the high frequencies becomes harsh and aggressive.
• 00:05:00 The speaker in the video has a ring radiator that helps to break up the breakup mode of a tweeter, and it also serves to reduce port turbulence. There is a resonance in the data that is likely caused by the port. The on-axis response is linear up until the upper upper region, where there is a bump in the high frequency area. The directivity index is 650 bucks a pair, which is great looking, but the speaker's listening window is also good.
• 00:10:00 The speaker's mid-range and tweeter have different slopes, causing an issue with the directivity. The near field data shows that the mid-range is shallow, while the tweeter is higher, leading to a discontinuity in the sound. The off axis response also shows that at higher frequencies, the sound starts to fall off and then picks back up.
• 00:15:00 The Classy tweeter has a narrow beam width and a steep fall off in response off-axis. The horizontal radiation pattern is linear until about 30 degrees where it starts to fall off. The vertical radiation pattern is also linear until about 10 kilohertz where it starts to pick back up. The tweeter has high distortion in the higher frequencies.
• 00:20:00 The speaker is "classy" with a "bit of a hairpin tweeter," but it's not suitable for getting crazy loud. The frequency response is mismatched, and the speaker is also limited by compression output limiting.