Any designs using the Seas Excel W15CH-KR Black Cone

[bobhowell]

Madisound has this driver on sale and I'm wondering if there is a design available for it.

Bob Howell

[2sooners]

This is driving me nuts too. I figure something like the ZA5 project or maybe Zaph/Huerta
1600hz contest winner.

Be nice if some heavies would weigh in. Santa wants me to have these drivers. Maybe some super value tweeters to complement them but i bet the sb acoustics SB29RDCN-C000-4 would be close.

These drivers are at $100 ea discount and may offer a super high value project.

A nice small high performance 2way that will sing to me. Yep, Santa knows what i need!

[Face]

Look for any designs using the W15CH001 .

[2sooners]

Does this mean this is a "mission possible"! OK, thanks. Here i go <again>

[bobhowell]

So, would the Scan-Speak Discovery D2608/9130 1" tweeter match well with this?
This is the old Peerless HDS.

I have looked around for designs but found none, so am just thinking out loud.

Bob

[jkrutke]

Designs for the W15CY-001 would probably work well also. The drivers are very close acoustically and electrically.

[dwk]

Interesting zaph - comparing the test results on your comparo page they do look extremely similar. Difference in the resonant peak but for a 2-way that is probably ignorable, otherwise very similar - even the break-up looks close enough to be a drop-in. There are several interesting designs for the W15CY out there.

Tough call between these and some Neo-10's for close to the same $$$. Guess it depends largely on whether one is thinking 2-way or 3-way.

[bobhowell]

I found several at Toels' site http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/Diy_Lou... constructions

Any others come to mind?

[Undefinition]

I found several at Toels' site http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/Diy_Lou... constructions

Any others come to mind?

yeah, these... :W

http://www.josephaudio.com/JosephAudio/RM33LE.html

I'm kidding. But seriously, I heard this speaker at a HiFi dealer and was thoroughly impressed. I intended to "clone" it with my own choice of drivers at some point.

[Jonasz]

I've been using the W15CY with the Hiquphon OW1 for the last 7-8 years and I can say it's a tremendous driver and so is the OW1. Great combination. My speakers are a Selah Audio design but now I'm interested in trying Troels version also just to see if there's a difference. :B

German Klang & Ton magazine had a W15CH/22TAFG design this fall. It could also be converted to a 3-way with the W22 as bassdriver. :P

[dwk]

Looks like Troels site had both the the specific designs I had in mind - the NeoCD3 design and the 3 related Seas 5" designs with the 22taf/g.

Jed at clearwave has a nice looking W15+NeoCD3 design as well, but it's proprietary.

Paul - one of my main regrets from RMAF is that I didn't hear the Joseph Audio Pulsars which are the stand-mount little brother to the floor standers you show. From all accounts they were fantastic. Since I liked basically all the Seas Excel based speakers I heard at RMAF I'm annoyed that I missed them.

Certainly the Excel + Millennium combo is well-proven, but I'm not sure whether there is a published design that uses the W15.

[bobhowell]

Went to order my pair of these and a tweeter...and they have only one left.