'New' extended range drivers...any thoughts?

[mondogenerator]

cruising through the usual speaker haunts i came across these:

Visaton - Lautsprecher und Zubehör, Loudspeakers and Accessories

Visaton - Lautsprecher und Zubehör, Loudspeakers and Accessories

Visaton - Lautsprecher und Zubehör, Loudspeakers and Accessories

now up until now i havent thought much of visatons fullrange drivers, but these dont look altogether bad.

Has anyone used these? im still searching for a source to buy these that will deliver to the UK...maybe i should try lautsphrecher.de again....

yes I admit it, im starting to get addicted to the mini drivers.

Dave(p10) i blame it all on you

[chris661]

I'd try this - no rising response there.

I've tried the FRS8 and the M version, (the latter in a FAST), both did reasonably well, but struggled with higher volumes - this problem was particularly apparent on the M version - 300Hz 2nd order wasn't enough to stop it going into nasty cone break-up early on.
Sounded detailed, etc etc - all you'd expect from such a tiny cone.

Chris

[planet10]

Originally Posted by mondogenerator

Dave(p10) i blame it all on you

You are most welcome...

the 1st one looks interesting, but i am wary of neo motors ATM. I was going to do the FR88ex, bought 24 of them, then the price close to doubled (due to Chinese hoarding) taking them out of contention... turned out to be a good excuse todo a line array experiment.

The 2" one is kinda cute too. Only Visaton experience i've had is the B200 -- distribution in North America is spotty.

dave

[mondogenerator]

@chris: thanks! I had looked at the sc8n before. The lack of rising response is an upside, but theres some mid to hf wiggles that arent terrible, but enough to make me hesitate.
@dave: haha! Im just another amateur looking for the wideband/fullrange holy grail: flat as possible over the largest bandwidth possible. I agree, the 1st driver seems the best. Rising response is almost trivial its so gradual, the whole NeFeB story is the real bugbear. The little 2"er isnt bad either.

Cheers guys. Its nice to know i havent lost it entirely!

[thoriated]

Then there's these.

Considering that you can soften the spider of these in about 2 minutes per driver to get Fs into the 50-60 hz range and they have an underhung VC and 4-5 mm Xmax, I think they are an unparalleled deal at Madisound's price.

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by thoriated

Then there's these.

Considering that you can soften the spider of these in about 2 minutes per driver to get Fs into the 50-60 hz range and they have an underhung VC and 5mm Xmax, I think they are an unparalleled deal at Madisound's price.

80db - not for me thanks

[mondogenerator]

im not a fan of the aurasound ones either....response looks nice but 80dB/W?!?! 84-90dB is better, even the least efficient ones i have use are 83dB and the w2-800sl around 87dB

[planet10]

Hoffman's iron law. You probably won't find a 3" that goes lower than the Aura,

dave

[borispm]

The efficiency of those Aura drivers are not that terrible, especially if you use more than one driver. They don't need much BSC and that's a plus side.

Tangband often overrates its drivers' sensitivity by 3dB, so I'm not sure if you will really find the sensitivity of those Aura drivers as low as you expected.

[borispm]

And yes, I suspect the only driver of this size that's going to go deeper than the Aura is Audience A3...