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Originally Posted by d.kiran  Now I have a question with Tweeter.
I have been hearing a few cars with two way and three way components and I have a feeling that the tweeters are overly bright/harsh.
Also, I have a fairly low tolerance for extreme highs.
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Component tweeters are actually easier to tame.
a) the crossover usually has a setting to reduce the treble
b) if (a) is not enough one can open the crossover and modify it. one way to reduce the harshness (which I think is partly due the to fact that in a car the tweeter is so close to your ear) is to introduce a small dip (about 0.5db) at about 3-4kHz), another is to reduce the Q of the crossover (this has to be done carefully because reducing the Q can also put more stress on the tweeter's mechanicals).
c) by firing the tweeters off axis one can reduce the glare
coax speakers often have just a simple 1st order XO for the tweeters (some like the Infinity have external XOs and higher order XOs but these are exceptions). This usually means the tweeters are more stressed and might sound harsher even if they are off axis.