Hi friends,
When designing speakers, the biggest bite is with the choice of drivers. People who deal with this "every day" will be able to more or less imagine which speakers they play, but for a person like me it is an abstraction. I would like to ask you for help in choosing.
First of all what I have and what I want to do.
I already have speaker boxes, profesionally made and I want to use them.
About 8inches(20cm) wide and 38inches(95cm) height
One 6 inch woofer at 38liter(1.35 cf) and one 6 inch at 12liter(0.42 cf) seperated at their one volume and one 4 inch tweeter for each floorstander.
I want to build a 2.5 way project with both the woofers SEALED, I listen mostly to metal and hard rock music.
The drivers that I have concluded are:
Dayton rs180 for the 0.5 woofer
sb17cac for the 0.5 woofer or maybe for both woofers
vifa ne180w for the extended woofer or both of the woofers
satori mw16p for the extended woofer or both of the woofers
Scanspeak d2608 (hds) or Satori tw29r or Satori tw29d or even the cheap sb29sdac for tweeter duties
Sadly I've never heard any of those drivers, and here is where you guys step in, with your recommendations.
I know that satori are highly rated, but I kinda feel that they are overhyped. My dealer recently tried the vifa/d2608(hds) combination at a 2way design and told my that I was better than mw16p/tw29r setup. He stated that the vifa/hds had much clearer/quicker bass and male voices where more pronounced, but who can trust a seller, right?
Of course vifas are slightly cheaper (40 euros cheaper per pair in my region) and of course also the hds tweeter is cheaper and as always my coins are limited. 8)
I've seen distortion measurements from all of those drivers, but sometimes the measurements dont say the truth (Sb17nbac measures great but very sterile and boring and one note bass). So I need some "real life"opinions.
When designing speakers, the biggest bite is with the choice of drivers. People who deal with this "every day" will be able to more or less imagine which speakers they play, but for a person like me it is an abstraction. I would like to ask you for help in choosing.
First of all what I have and what I want to do.
I already have speaker boxes, profesionally made and I want to use them.
About 8inches(20cm) wide and 38inches(95cm) height
One 6 inch woofer at 38liter(1.35 cf) and one 6 inch at 12liter(0.42 cf) seperated at their one volume and one 4 inch tweeter for each floorstander.
I want to build a 2.5 way project with both the woofers SEALED, I listen mostly to metal and hard rock music.
The drivers that I have concluded are:
Dayton rs180 for the 0.5 woofer
sb17cac for the 0.5 woofer or maybe for both woofers
vifa ne180w for the extended woofer or both of the woofers
satori mw16p for the extended woofer or both of the woofers
Scanspeak d2608 (hds) or Satori tw29r or Satori tw29d or even the cheap sb29sdac for tweeter duties
Sadly I've never heard any of those drivers, and here is where you guys step in, with your recommendations.
I know that satori are highly rated, but I kinda feel that they are overhyped. My dealer recently tried the vifa/d2608(hds) combination at a 2way design and told my that I was better than mw16p/tw29r setup. He stated that the vifa/hds had much clearer/quicker bass and male voices where more pronounced, but who can trust a seller, right?
Of course vifas are slightly cheaper (40 euros cheaper per pair in my region) and of course also the hds tweeter is cheaper and as always my coins are limited. 8)
I've seen distortion measurements from all of those drivers, but sometimes the measurements dont say the truth (Sb17nbac measures great but very sterile and boring and one note bass). So I need some "real life"opinions.
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