Posted by Wayne Parham on July 30, 2003 at 12:57:46

Have you ever seen a plasma tweeter? I'm not really interested in using them for a particular design, but they are certainly a curiosity. Plasma tweeters use a modulated Tesla coil to literally ionize the air enough to cause audible pressure changes.

Check out these links:

• Roger Russell's Ionophone Loudspeaker History Page

• Rudistor Sound Lab Plasma Tweeters

• Carl Willis' Plasma Tweeters

• Heinrich Ulmann's Plasma Tweeters

• Colin Joye's Ion Tweeters

• Colin Joye's Plasma Tweeters

• Does the Plasma tweeter.. - Bubbawat 06:11:39 07/31/03 (0)