What Driver and Passive Radiator?

[ArthurSoares]

Hello to all

I live in Brazil, but in this august I'll be living in US for Exchange program, and one of the things I want to buy is a gr8 subwoofer for my HT.

As I've read here u guys are big fans of TL Enclosures, what speakers do u often use for this boxes? I want to have Deep Low Bass response with high SPL.. What Drivers do u indicates to me? And as well a passive radiator in case I build a ported box. I want to use this box at home! .. Thank

[kelticwizard]

Passive Radiators generally are not used unless the port is too big for the box. If you want to tune a 0.5 Ft³ (14 L) box to 25 Hz, for example, you would use a Passive Radiator.

Passive Radiators cost money, and they worsen the transient response somewhat. But they do allow you to tune a small box very low.

Generally, if you can use a port of reasonable size, use it.

[thylantyr]

Don't tell the folks in the home theater
forum about the sonic penalties with
passive radiators, if you do..

then...

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/heheheh

[GM]

Too late, thylantyr.

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>Passive Radiators cost money, and they worsen the transient response somewhat. But they do allow you to tune a small box very low.
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Yes, they do cost more than a tube, and if driven much below Fb then the notch at its Fs will ripple back up the BW so it's not a good plan IMO to use them if tuned above ~20Hz. Tuned below this point, their transient response is superior to a vent since there's much less out of BW response and no delay due to the need to 'pump up', so for sub duty they're ideal IMO if an IB or basshorn isn't an option.

Arthur,

There's many to choose from, so basically it boils down to the max cab size you can tolerate, whether you want to be able to do DD reference, and how much can you afford. Browse the Adire Audio and Stryke sites to get a sampling of the most popular ones. When I was still running subs, my preference was the ServoDrive Contrabass since it comes closest in performance to a basshorn, yet is reasonably compact.

GM

[ArthurSoares]

About the passive radiators I've already read something about it.. Okay. in Case I could use a port for lower fb I'd use it... Got the point!...

And about the Drivers... What u guys suggest me to buy for low frequencies bass.? I actually have 2 Subwoofers, one is in a BandPass (6th) order, and the other one is in a Ported box.. I'll post the T-S parm. and u tell me which one of them is better?

How much u think I will spend in a good driver?

Endurance EHSW12


4,0 (ohms ± 10%)
SPL: 88 (± 2dB/m/2,83v)
Fhz: 25 (Hz ± 15 %)
Potência máxima : 600 Wmax
Potência nominal : 300 Wrms
Qts : 0,28
Qms : 2,42
Qes : 0,32
Vas : 93 liters
X máx. : 8,0 mm
Re : 3,8 Ohms
Sd : 530 sq.cm
12" D : 311,0 mm
H : 146,0 mm

Endurance 2k 12D/2


2,0 + 2,0 (ohms ± 10%)
SPL 88 (± 2dB/m/2,83v)
Fhz: 27 (Hz ± 15 %)
Potência máxima: 1000 Wmax
Potência nominal: 500 Wrms
Qts: 0,42
Qms: 6,30
Qes: 0,45
Vas: 70 liters
X máx.: 8,0 mm
Re: 1,9 + 1,9 Ohms
Sd: 523 sq.cm
12" D: 321,0 mm
H: 145,0 mm


Thanks

[ArthurSoares]

Sorry guys these Drivers may be unknown for almost all of you, but they are quite popular here.. I'll post here more two..

Selenium BASS 12SW2A DVC(quite cheap)

2 + 2 Ohms
SPL 91(1w@1m)
Fs 21
Re 1.7
Qms 12
Qes 0.33
Qts 0.32
Vas 220
Sd 520 cm3
Xmax 5.2mm
200Wrms


Selenium Extreme 12SW5 (Excellent driver IMHO)

2 + 2 Ohms
SPL 89 (1w@1m)
Fs 31
Re 3.50
Qms 5.20
Qes 0.47
Qts 0.43
Vas 61
Sd 520cm3
Xmax 7.2mm


Another time.. Thanks

[ArthurSoares]

Originally posted by GM
Too late, thylantyr.

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>Passive Radiators cost money, and they worsen the transient response somewhat. But they do allow you to tune a small box very low.
====
Yes, they do cost more than a tube, and if driven much below Fb then the notch at its Fs will ripple back up the BW so it's not a good plan IMO to use them if tuned above ~20Hz. Tuned below this point, their transient response is superior to a vent since there's much less out of BW response and no delay due to the need to 'pump up', so for sub duty they're ideal IMO if an IB or basshorn isn't an option.

Arthur,

There's many to choose from, so basically it boils down to the max cab size you can tolerate, whether you want to be able to do DD reference, and how much can you afford. Browse the Adire Audio and Stryke sites to get a sampling of the most popular ones. When I was still running subs, my preference was the ServoDrive Contrabass since it comes closest in performance to a basshorn, yet is reasonably compact.

GM

OMFG I'm totally amazed by these ServoDrive loudspeakers .. Man Its totally awesome.. 110dB@16Hz .. LOL that's Evil!

But how much one of these cost?

[ArthurSoares]

Hello again,

What u guys can tell me about the Adire Audio Brahma Series.. ?! A folk just told me about it.. but i have no info

[Superassbass]

Originally posted by ArthurSoares
Hello again,

What u guys can tell me about the Adire Audio Brahma Series.. ?! A folk just told me about it.. but i have no info

Here's a good place to start:

http://www.adireaudio.com/Files/BrahmaOwnersGuide.pdf

Pmax= 4800W...It's really for people who have too much money

[ArthurSoares]

Originally posted by Superassbass



Here's a good place to start:

http://www.adireaudio.com/Files/BrahmaOwnersGuide.pdf

Pmax= 4800W...It's really for people who have too much money

thank you for the sight... That driver reaches high spl at low frequencies from what I could figure the price that the AdireAudio offers, is it updated? Would it be a reasonable driver for an HT sistem? The manual suggested building a 5ft^3 ported box and fB in 20hz for Hometheater, it showed flat response.. bottom down to 20hz. P-r-e-t-t-y Amazing..