Wow, That is a post that want to say.....You are damn good!!! I didnt know a person could listen to an impulse at very low speed and post the details of what is happening.
Extremely impressive. Love the graphs too.
Hi Gary,
After measuring and listening to the TD15M, have you given new consideration to a 3-way with a 1" compression driver covering 900/1000Hz to 20kHz? I'm sure you have favorite Soprano recordings for testing. Since I love the women, my midrange covers 80-1,500Hz to minimize splitting their vocals on two speakers.
The B&C 250 and BMS 4550 1" compression drivers sound very good over a wide BW. Even the $40 Selenium D220TI on a 15"-18" waveguide gets approval in my home.
I'd like to talk abou a "vocal range" speaker. The "Vocal_range" covers normal male and female singing voices roughly from 80 Hz to 1100Hz (E2 to C6).
I believe the best speakers do not put a crossover in the 80-1,100Hz vocal range. I've been using the 8" Tang Band W8-1808 and 10" Lambda TD10M.
For non-conductors:.
The following are the general vocal ranges associated with each voice type using scientific pitch notation where middle C=C4. Some singers within these voice types may be able to sing somewhat higher or lower:
Soprano: C4 – C6
Mezzo-soprano: A3 – A5
Contralto: F3 – F5
Tenor: C3 – C5
Baritone: F2 – F4
Bass: E2 – E4
After measuring and listening to the TD15M, have you given new consideration to a 3-way with a 1" compression driver covering 900/1000Hz to 20kHz? I'm sure you have favorite Soprano recordings for testing. Since I love the women, my midrange covers 80-1,500Hz to minimize splitting their vocals on two speakers.
The B&C 250 and BMS 4550 1" compression drivers sound very good over a wide BW. Even the $40 Selenium D220TI on a 15"-18" waveguide gets approval in my home.
I'd like to talk abou a "vocal range" speaker. The "Vocal_range" covers normal male and female singing voices roughly from 80 Hz to 1100Hz (E2 to C6).
I believe the best speakers do not put a crossover in the 80-1,100Hz vocal range. I've been using the 8" Tang Band W8-1808 and 10" Lambda TD10M.
For non-conductors:.
The following are the general vocal ranges associated with each voice type using scientific pitch notation where middle C=C4. Some singers within these voice types may be able to sing somewhat higher or lower:
Soprano: C4 – C6
Mezzo-soprano: A3 – A5
Contralto: F3 – F5
Tenor: C3 – C5
Baritone: F2 – F4
Bass: E2 – E4
I have the TD series drivers (TD12Ms and TD12S) I scratched my head recent over measurements of non-dampend and dampend cabinets not being that different, I thought I did something wrong.
Its interesting to see similar results here.We have to remember that the TD cones are very well treated and completely waterproof. They have a tacky substance which is a pain to clean when dust gets on them. Could this have an effect on the rear wave essentially blocking most of it from coming through?
FWIW, They are the best 12" drivers I have ever heard and they meet the SQ of the expensive JBLs that I have experience. gotta love that 15" response, Im kicking myself for not stepping up to the 15" last year.
I have the TD12M and the BMS4550 (QSC HPR-152i waveguide), I have been playing around with different XOs and it seemed the 1200Hz sounded the best but I didnt try any woman vocals.
Interactive Frequency Chart - Independent Recording Network
Awesome chart this is. Hover the curser on the instrument/voice scale and check out the little info bits that show up in the windows on the right-side.
Harmonics of male and female voices extend much higher than 1k. Keeping the crossover out of 100 - 1k should be rule 1.
Awesome chart this is. Hover the curser on the instrument/voice scale and check out the little info bits that show up in the windows on the right-side.
Harmonics of male and female voices extend much higher than 1k. Keeping the crossover out of 100 - 1k should be rule 1.
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Soongsc, you've quoted my spectrograms before. This is not new information. Then I followed it with similar examples just to give a different look. I must be missing something because it sure seems like we new what the problem was 3 pages ago. It was obvious. Can we move on. The wild theories didn't pan out and the simplest one did. I swear I almost can't figure out why I posted this stuff. I thought it was going to be helpful. Silly me. Perhaps someone with more "experience" should restate it. Then we can thank them and move on.
Dan
Dan
All of the 15" AE speakers exihibit this. You can see it in the IR of the TD15X, LO15, and IB15 in my measurements. The wavelength corresponds to 400hz, and again in the nearfield measurements all of these woofer have a dip in the 300-500hz area, ranging from unusable (IB15) to acceptable (the others). I was hoping the TD15M would be free from this since the TD12M doesn't really have it, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since the LO15 has it and it uses the same top assembly as the LO15.
No driver is perfect unfortunately, but this wouldn't stop me from using these, that's for sure!
No driver is perfect unfortunately, but this wouldn't stop me from using these, that's for sure!
I believe I was asking some questions in the "measurements" thread. But I don't know why this kind of response in this thread. Did you design the software and feel annoyed when I use it as reference for discussion?
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Hi Elias
glad to see you join the discussion.
Could you perform your wavelet analysis on the IR files at hand.
I already did, but my plots are not as revealing as yours (always several steps behind - you know..)
The strange thing with this driver seems to be that there is a clear built up in resonance - not exactly what we usually see with looped reflections in horns.
An other explanation possibly would be, that we have a beat of two effects that cause a "come and go" of that resonances (interacting of different modes of cone flexing for example).
Anyway a really strange speaker behaviour worth to look at in detail.
Michael
glad to see you join the discussion.
Could you perform your wavelet analysis on the IR files at hand.
I already did, but my plots are not as revealing as yours (always several steps behind
- you know..)The strange thing with this driver seems to be that there is a clear built up in resonance - not exactly what we usually see with looped reflections in horns.
An other explanation possibly would be, that we have a beat of two effects that cause a "come and go" of that resonances (interacting of different modes of cone flexing for example).
Anyway a really strange speaker behaviour worth to look at in detail.
Michael
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After all the work I've done during the past several days, maybe I should get paid!
Gary Dahl
For that - and - for bringing this thread alive !
Michael
Soongsc, it's in reference to your suspicion of a cone resonance around 2k that you posted 2 posts before my last. We already know it does, you've already seen it in the polar plot and the spectrogram and the impulse. It's just that simple, no reason to re-rediscover it again.
Please can we now end this discussion? Unless we are going to try to fix it, but it seems Gary is content with crossing it over low.
Sorry for getting annoyed, but I hate rehashing the same thing over and over. Yea I know, then why post in this thread?...... Life is too short.
Oye,
Dan
Well, I don't recall anyone pointing out the possibility of interaction between the cone and surround. I don't think anyone pointed out the shape of the wriggles discussed. Seems Gary is also interested in this. So why get annoyed? I would not have even posted the 2Khz issue if the discussion was not on-going. To be honest, I thought it was just some reflection untill I looked at the shape of the wriggle.
Inspired by Lynn's mic setup and Gary's mic installation mod; I finally found a way to put together a mod that will integrate existing mic and preamp with the mic stand. A brass tube relaces the original mic holding tube, on one end is the mic preamp, on the other end is the mic.
The next time I get to do some measurements, I'll post any differences I see.
The next time I get to do some measurements, I'll post any differences I see.
