That'll teach me to rely on the tablets auto correct. That should have read redo the crossover and built instead of build.
Dave B. Did have the driver custom made for the DB6, I do not know by who, but it could have been volt. They measure rather nicely, very smooth as you'd expect for poly and low distortion too.
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I wondered if you would be able to do me a favour? Would you be able to see how both the Jordan EIKONA and the EAD E100HD may model in this cabinet?
Scott
I wondered if you would be able to do me a favour? Would you be able to see how both the Jordan EIKONA and the EAD E100HD may model in this cabinet?
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- and that's me most of the time...
Sorta.
The most interesting number on the spec sheet is the Qm... this could be a candidate for current amp use.
And there has to be typo in the inductance. 141 H??
The price is a bit scary too... $522 USD at today's exchange. That is, i think, more than a pair of MA MOAP 7, may be even MOAP 10.
dave
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From what I can gather, price is a direct result of manufacturing in the UK in smaller quantities. Making anything over here ain't cheap, tho it keeps the locals in work.
We have this problem with some textile products sold by my own company which we source in the UK. Interestingly, whereas a few years ago customers were put off the products because of price, recently they're buying them specifically because they are UK-made.
We have this problem with some textile products sold by my own company which we source in the UK. Interestingly, whereas a few years ago customers were put off the products because of price, recently they're buying them specifically because they are UK-made.
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It is quite easy to do much better than this. I would also note that the "bump" is too small and not located at a frequency that corresponds to the panel width.
Either of these designs http://documents.jordan-usa.com/Enclosures/JX92S-35-MLTL-MD.pdf or http://documents.jordan-usa.com/Enclosures/JX92S-40-MLTL-MD.pdf will give you a response down into the 20s if you lengthen the port by about 2 inches.
Plots of the FR in the 35 and 40 in cabinets are attatched.
NOTE: These are NOT optimized designs for the driver but merely serve to demonstrate what can be achieved using an existing design and lengthening the port.
In such an enclosure the response is good into the mid 20 Hz range making for a Full Range system. Which will need to address BSC using any of the usual methods.
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Aha! Methinks I do detect sour grapes Mr. Dikovics, presumably because I pointed out that you had accidentally forgotten to mention in the thread you started about Jordan USA having a sale on that Jordan USA is, er, you.
Setting aside such trivialities, I think it is self-evident that the box I did above is not supposed to extract maximum LF extension from the drive unit. If I'd wanted to do that, then that's what I'd have done. If you would care to post the impedance and excursion plots of the boxes you mention above, and compare these to the one I did, you will very quickly see what one of the major objectives behind the box alignment was.
I see that you have misunderstood my point about the enclosure providing 'some assistance for step-loss.' Firstly, note the word 'some.' When we look at the published response of the Eikona drive unit, specifically below ~1KHz we see a gradually rising response trend below ~800Hz to approximately 250Hz, compared to the region 1KHz - 4KHz. These measurements were presumably taken on an IEC standard baffle in an anechoic chamber, although as I believe you are the US distributor, you are presumably better informed on this point -perhaps you can confirm. A 9in baffle has an F3 of approximately 506Hz, and the losses are thus in part cancelled out by the rising LF response. A quasi pro-audio vented alignment with a mild degree of relatively broadband gain can then be used to provide some additional assistance below this point. While technically not perfect, given average room conditions which dominate in the < 300Hz region, such alignments frequently work quite well in practice in helping to produce a reasonably balanced response.
I hope this clears matters up for you.
Setting aside such trivialities, I think it is self-evident that the box I did above is not supposed to extract maximum LF extension from the drive unit. If I'd wanted to do that, then that's what I'd have done. If you would care to post the impedance and excursion plots of the boxes you mention above, and compare these to the one I did, you will very quickly see what one of the major objectives behind the box alignment was.
I see that you have misunderstood my point about the enclosure providing 'some assistance for step-loss.' Firstly, note the word 'some.' When we look at the published response of the Eikona drive unit, specifically below ~1KHz we see a gradually rising response trend below ~800Hz to approximately 250Hz, compared to the region 1KHz - 4KHz. These measurements were presumably taken on an IEC standard baffle in an anechoic chamber, although as I believe you are the US distributor, you are presumably better informed on this point -perhaps you can confirm. A 9in baffle has an F3 of approximately 506Hz, and the losses are thus in part cancelled out by the rising LF response. A quasi pro-audio vented alignment with a mild degree of relatively broadband gain can then be used to provide some additional assistance below this point. While technically not perfect, given average room conditions which dominate in the < 300Hz region, such alignments frequently work quite well in practice in helping to produce a reasonably balanced response.
I hope this clears matters up for you.
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If you want to maximise dynamic range, that's certainly the way forward. There are limits to what unsupported wideband units, even ones with considerable travel available to them, can do.
Actually Scott, not at all what I was pointing out, which is much simpler and regards the meaning of BSC. Which is an attempt to correct for the baffle width and radiation from the driver into the room. For a cabinet of that width, this is not the appropriate point for the BSC to begin, it is much too low. That's all...
What I was pointing out with the graphs is that in the FR forum it might be good information to note that the driver actually can produce at least 25 Hz to 20+ kHz. It seemed noteable...
There can be many discussions of the pros and cons of such tuning, but alot of the con's go away when you realize there is almost never any significant content in the 20-40 Hz range (thanks to recording engineers) and a low tuning reduces cone motion in the range that actually is present in recordings.
Most good amplifiers have NO problem with the impedeance that the sytem presents. That I can assure you from experience. Even my MC 225 drives such a tuning effortlessly.
As far as interpreting the FR below 300 Hz. My recomendation is to disregard it as we don't know what the measurement conditions were. This is not uncommon in the industry.
To clear things up I have NO envolvement with this driver.
Really? I thought that's what I was doing when I explained that one has to take the driver's inherent response into account, and balance this against step loss & enclosure behaviour, rather than simplistically following a mathematical curve. Since you've evidently chosen to ignore everything I said, we can't have a sensible discussion. Does this make it any clearer for you?
-A 9in wide baffle has an F3 of approximately 506Hz.
-The published Eikona FR shows the drive unit has a rising response < 800Hz, down to approximately 250Hz.
-The rising response of the drive unit inherently can be used to help compensate for step loss.
-A cabinet providing a mild degree of broad-band gain, as is frequently used in pro-audio, can then be used to provide some further assistance in the lower registers.
-While imperfect, such alignments regularly work well in practical conditions, since < 300Hz, the room dominates the system response. They are no more imperfect than, for e.g., slapping a shelving filter onto a speaker without considering exactly how much correction is needed, since it might not necessarily correspond to the bald mathematics.
For the rest: so what if it can do 25Hz in a different box? As I made clear, that was not what this box was for. If you want that, do something else. Simple as that. It doesn't make it 'better' (your word) or worse, just a different set of compromises. Not everybody shares the same criteria as yourself. For example, I rarely favour trying to extract maximum LF extension from a drive unit for reasons which should be fairly obvious. As for the impedance load, it may surprise you to learn that many people like a speaker with a flat impedance. Whether you like it or not, or indeed whether I like it or not is neither here nor there.
You're not carrying Eikona at Jordan USA then? I stand corrected. I assumed that you would be, since on the Jordan site it still states that 'In the USA, our drivers are handled by Jordan-USA.' Evidently they need to update their pages.
-A 9in wide baffle has an F3 of approximately 506Hz.
-The published Eikona FR shows the drive unit has a rising response < 800Hz, down to approximately 250Hz.
-The rising response of the drive unit inherently can be used to help compensate for step loss.
-A cabinet providing a mild degree of broad-band gain, as is frequently used in pro-audio, can then be used to provide some further assistance in the lower registers.
-While imperfect, such alignments regularly work well in practical conditions, since < 300Hz, the room dominates the system response. They are no more imperfect than, for e.g., slapping a shelving filter onto a speaker without considering exactly how much correction is needed, since it might not necessarily correspond to the bald mathematics.
For the rest: so what if it can do 25Hz in a different box? As I made clear, that was not what this box was for. If you want that, do something else. Simple as that. It doesn't make it 'better' (your word) or worse, just a different set of compromises. Not everybody shares the same criteria as yourself. For example, I rarely favour trying to extract maximum LF extension from a drive unit for reasons which should be fairly obvious. As for the impedance load, it may surprise you to learn that many people like a speaker with a flat impedance. Whether you like it or not, or indeed whether I like it or not is neither here nor there.
You're not carrying Eikona at Jordan USA then? I stand corrected. I assumed that you would be, since on the Jordan site it still states that 'In the USA, our drivers are handled by Jordan-USA.' Evidently they need to update their pages.
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Scott, I don't wish to escallate this... Your statement about the tuning being useful for BSC is at best weak if not absolutely incorrect. The note comparing the FR curves on the site to MA drivers is certainly not visible to my eyes. And the corresponding system impedance in what I showed in the two FR charts is not significantly different from what you had pubished. Full Range to me is about one driver per channel... I like to hear the bass (guitar) when it is plucked in my Jazz that only takes 40 Hz. Why don't we let this go... If you would like to discuss this further please PM me and I would be happy to explain further my comments.
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