New SEAS coax!

[Elbert]

Just browsing by the SEAS web-page today, and found some interresting news!

THE ART OF SOUND PERFECTION BY SEAS - H1602-04/06 L12RE/XFC

This should make for some interresting high-quality mini-monitirs/ PC-speakers!

[5th element]

I think I'm going to have to get me a pair! Those certainly look interesting and would make for a perfect, small form factor, centre channel. Here's hoping the price is attractive also.

Would be great to see some measurements on them too though.

[Elbert]

Yes, this unit must be perfect for a centre channel! I'm not in to home cinema my self, but I've more than once looked at some center channel spekares and found my self puzzled about their ungainly size and shape.

I'm definitively getting my self a pair when they come out, usually the norewgian SEAS dealer tend to have some very good introduction offers whenever SEAS launches new drivers.

[chrisb]

What's rather interesting is that reading the summary of features/specs ( I couldn't get the detail tech specs to open), it appears that XO frequency may be elective by the user.

I don't pay a lot of attention to this general category of drivers, but isn't that a bit unusual, or did I just misread the specs?

Anyways - interesting indeed


edit:

Some quick googling doesn't return a North American vendor with pricing for this new model yet, but based on the TPX coaxes in the Prestige range, I wouldn't expect pricing to be less than the equivalent of $120 - 140ea.

[planet10]

Good to see another coax... a more or less direct comparison to Alpair 10.2 would be interesting.

dave

[5th element]

Yes, this unit must be perfect for a centre channel! I'm not in to home cinema my self, but I've more than once looked at some center channel spekares and found my self puzzled about their ungainly size and shape.

I'm not much into home cinema either, although I do plan at some point in adding a centre + two surrounds.

The centre speaker is often quoted as being the most important channel in a HT setup as it has to handle a LOT of sound. I mean think what it represents, what's supposed to be in front of the viewers eyes and as a result all the sound that's coming from there, this tends to be the centre of the action - hence the requirement.

Home cinema for myself would be an 'after thought' though and this is an area I'd want the extra channels to be small and inconspicuous, centre channel height is of huge importance in this. The best two way centre channel layout is for a tweeter above the midrange, as it is with a standard two way. If you place the tweeter next to the mid/bass you get a more acceptable shape for the centre channel, but the horizontal off axis response looks really ugly as you're basically looking at the vertical off axis response of a normal two way. A small coax solves all of this.

Originally Posted by chrisb

What's rather interesting is that reading the summary of features/specs ( I couldn't get the detail tech specs to open), it appears that XO frequency may be elective by the user.

I don't pay a lot of attention to this general category of drivers, but isn't that a bit unusual, or did I just misread the specs?

No you didn't mis-read anything. Lots of co-axials come with a pre-built crossover that is integrated into the driver. I'm thinking main stream car hifi drivers here.

The SEAS co-axials don't come with any crossover, it is up to you, as you said, to handle the driver in the right way.

Personally, in a situation like this, I'd want to cross the tweeter as low as it would cope with.

[Dave Jones]

Looks like the tweeter peters out at 7kHz.

[Inductor]

Originally Posted by Dave Jones

Looks like the tweeter peters out at 7kHz.

And Fs=1K2, so where does it take the midbass with that peak breakup.

[Adam Bernau]

Originally Posted by Dave Jones

Looks like the tweeter peters out at 7kHz.

No, that would be the woofer

[Inductor]

Originally Posted by Adam Bernau

No, that would be the woofer

For me looks like it's (woofer+tweeter) a great six flags candidate.