Audiobahn 34"

[angel]

Does anyone here have any experience with the Audiobahn 34" subwoofer driver in home theatre use?

 

[spots25]

no, but I've heard it sounds awful

 

[merlinx76]

They're a little expensive, even considering the size... for that kind of money you could get almost anything you want.... Don't they retail for $5000?

For that price you could get 12 Ascendant Audio Avalanche 18's or 30 Atlas 15's.

 

[DcibeL]

I'd like to know how this rediculous thing sounds for $3630 CAD. I mean it's Fostex and it's crazy expensive so it has to be good, right?

 

[Cyrus_s]

They're a little expensive, even considering the size... for that kind of money you could get almost anything you want.... Don't they retail for $5000?

For that price you could get 12 Ascendant Audio Avalanche 18's or 30 Atlas 15's.

Or a Parthenon motor structure. Then it begs the question of amplification.

 

[simon5]

A Parthenon is quite efficient and 12 Avalanche 18" will be quite efficient also!

Not that hard to amplify, unless you really want maximum SPL...

 

[Rademakers]

I'd like to know how this rediculous thing sounds for $3630 CAD. I mean it's Fostex and it's crazy expensive so it has to be good, right?

Well....

It has a very weak motor and low Xmax, so it could only be used for IB or dipole on low level output. It's also very difficult to make such large membrames stiff enough (it's already hard to do so with an 18").

I wouldn't want to use it for bass and since it will probably beam like a laser above 500 Hz I wouldn't want to use it for mid or high either. Maybe could use it as an passive radiator tho

Mvg Johan

 

[mike.e]

Every few years either the 34" or 30" EV or royaldevice gets a mention... life is cyclical


lol the fostex 800 has less displacement than a tumult,and would require a box volume close to the volume of my house.

 

[Stocker]

You laugh, but my friend who used to work on church organs reported of a small house-sized room with a big woofer, just like that!

...model long forgotten...

 

[Cyrus_s]

A Parthenon is quite efficient and 12 Avalanche 18" will be quite efficient also!

Not that hard to amplify, unless you really want maximum SPL...

True. IB'ed for either one wouldn't require massive amplification for decent output. Or any other setup for that matter.

I'd be happy with 4 Avalanche 18's though hehe.. and you get free baskets. Of which I have yet to see on a Parthenon.

 

[nate]

Yeah, no free basket on the parthenon! They say that it doesn't need a basket or an enclosure either. They recommend a 24" x 24" plate as a cone and it has something like 6" of excursion, you do the math. Some serious air is being moved.
You should buy one!

 

[Roemhild]

right now I am playing with a FW800 from Fostex and I ahve to say that I have never heared anything like that befor.

I thought a 18" or 21" could replay bass but if you once heared a 31" you dont want anything else.

 

[Roemhild]

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[BassAwdyO]

You're using that 31" OB????? I'd think IB would be a better choice

 

[Roemhild]

Hi


it is not a real OB. It is a wall that I have placed in a corner of a room. The volume behind the FW800 is 2200liter.

I think that I will reduce the volume to 1500ltr and seal the volume complete up. Right now it is just a test.


regards Till

 

[SY]

Till, what do the people in the building behind the speaker say?

If I had the money, I'd sure like to try that driver in open baffle.

Safety note: the first time you step on a woodscrew that someone unknowingly dropped, you'll wish you had shoes on while you're working. Trust me, I know this the hard way.

 

[Roemhild]

thay are speachless and enjoy my music.

but serously since I have the 31" I hear very muted because also there you have enough bass and you dont want to turn the musik up. It is a class for it.

Safety note: the first time you step on a woodscrew that someone unknowingly dropped, you'll wish you had shoes on while you're working. Trust me, I know this the hard way.

Yeah I know that too but I hate wearing shoes in my apartment.

 

[blake_mooney]

I'd like to know how this rediculous thing sounds for $3630 CAD. I mean it's Fostex and it's crazy expensive so it has to be good, right?

Total common misconception.