Tweeter

A tweeter is a small or rather tiny loudspeaker. Tweeters are designed to reproduce high-pitched sounds (such as the sound of a whistle or a bird singing). It can mean sound's frequency going up to 20kHz. Humans can't hear frequencies larger than 20 000 Hz. Low frequencies would destroy small speakers because it is not designed to create larger movements. This is what a subwoofer is for, to play low frequencies.

Tweeter Media

Cutaway view of a dynamic tweeter with acoustic lens and a dome-shaped membrane.
1. Magnet
2. Voicecoil
3. Membrane
4. Suspension
Polycell tweeter from an Infinity speaker, showing the components.
Ohm CAM 16 speaker with "egg tweeter".
Dome tweeter with a membrane with 25 mm diameter made from titanium; from a JBL TI 5000 loudspeaker box, c. 1997

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