New TCSounds sub

[augerpro]

Anyone measured these? http://www.tcsounds.com/db500.htm

Looks nice and the price is right. I wonder if it would work well in a 3way?

[Mazeroth]

$75 each if purchased in fours, not bad. However, $20 to ship each takes them up to $95. With Parts Express's free shipping right now it's kind of hard to dismiss them.

[joecarrow]

The back of that driver looks strangely closed off. Is that unusual to anyone else? I'm sure that choice was carefully considered, but it doesn't strike me as being a good candidate for dipoles.

Do you think the 20mm xmax is for real? That's starting to look like a LOT of swept volume for the money!

[Scott Simonian]

Not to mention a TC2+ motor for under $100

[Hank]

I noticed those yesterday. 4 for the price of 3 is mighty tempting. 20mm xmax does look a little iffy, but I think the gurus would say TC is reliable.

[jdybnis]

I believe it. I can't remember TC Sounds ever selling a driver with less than 20mm xmax!

[EDS]

How would 4 of these in one box or two boxes w/ two per box sound? Pretty good for the money or the money better spend elsewhere? For HT purposes only.

[Jonasz]

I'm sure they are good for the price but I would never buy them because of their butt ugly appearance... :twisted:

Four db500 10" will only move 5-10% more air than two TC1000 12". I'm sure the TC1000 have less distorsion due to better ventilated basket and a more rigid cone. The price for two TC1000 is right now only $318 so they're not a lot more expensive than the db500's either.

And oc they do look a LOT better than the db500! As jkrutke stated in another thread, "looks are imortant"! :twisted: :rofl:

[AJINFLA]

IIRC, the 10's were on sale for $75 in lots of 4. Now it appears that the 12's can be had the same price on a per driver basis.

http://www.tcsounds.com/db500.htm

That's a pretty nice deal for that much swept volume/motor/cone design IMHO. If I didn't have too many drivers already....

cheers,

AJ

[augerpro]

IIRC, the 10's were on sale for $75 in lots of 4. Now it appears that the 12's can be had the same price on a per driver basis.

http://www.tcsounds.com/db500.htm

That's a pretty nice deal for that much swept volume/motor/cone design IMHO. If I didn't have too many drivers already....

cheers,

AJ

Oh your rotten! I'm have piles of drivers already and haven't finished my first project! Now this...

I've been wanting to replace my current 10" sub with a low VAS 12". Can anyone think of a good reason to go wtih somethign else for a smallish sub?