I believe Nexus makes them nowadays, but I could be wrong. They still use them in their PA designs.
But welcome in the world of light weight High Efficiency paper cone drivers. It's not all about going loud as you have figured out your self by now.
I also have a pair of these, actually the ones with the phase plug. They sound best on open baffle, like all drivers with a very thin and light paper cone do. They just don't have enough con damping to damp the backwave of a enclosure. I also had a pair of the PHL's but like the Audax more. The PHL's are more detailed, the Audax more mellow. The PHL's are also a bit nervous in compare. I think these midranges are probably the best value for money ever
But welcome in the world of light weight High Efficiency paper cone drivers. It's not all about going loud as you have figured out your self by now.
I also have a pair of these, actually the ones with the phase plug. They sound best on open baffle, like all drivers with a very thin and light paper cone do. They just don't have enough con damping to damp the backwave of a enclosure. I also had a pair of the PHL's but like the Audax more. The PHL's are more detailed, the Audax more mellow. The PHL's are also a bit nervous in compare. I think these midranges are probably the best value for money ever
Sjef,
I use them in 10lite CL box, which is fully stuffed with a strong acoustically absorbing material. There are absolutely NO internal reflextions inside the cabinet anymore at the frequencies of interest (400-3000Hz)
This helps certainly to keep the distortions low an maintain a linear response.
Efficiency is not really effected though...
Does anyone have an adres in europe whee they sell the original flat surrounds for the PR170MO. I'm not using mine at the moment beacause the surround are starting to fall apart. This thread has got me interessted in them again, they are some of the best midrange drivers I have ever used, so time to rescue them.
well maybe I'm just an open baffle guy. Ever since I began using driver without enclosure some 15 years ago I always here nasty enclosure colourations and wrong power response with enclosed drivers, nomatter how good the enclosure is executed. They do some things better then open baffles though. Sometimes I would like to have some more lower midrange punch a closed or reflex box can provide but without the colouration.
Built club speakers with them about 25? Years ago
Used this midrange in a plan from Audax which also included the Audax pr120 bullet tweeters crossed around 6k. Still have copy of the plans somewhere. Was a tiny box and low end was around 300hz. Also used their 13" mid bass and several boxes were great in a small club dance floor about the size of a large living room. No horn loading. Used Cerwin Vega subs.
Used this midrange in a plan from Audax which also included the Audax pr120 bullet tweeters crossed around 6k. Still have copy of the plans somewhere. Was a tiny box and low end was around 300hz. Also used their 13" mid bass and several boxes were great in a small club dance floor about the size of a large living room. No horn loading. Used Cerwin Vega subs.
Replacement parts for PR170MO
Sjef,
check for replacements parts for this midrange with this company in Germany:
www.audax-speaker.de/
good luck,
P.S.: If my speaker will start to die after 25years, I will replace them with 1"driver with appropriate horn...
Sjef,
check for replacements parts for this midrange with this company in Germany:
www.audax-speaker.de/
good luck,
P.S.: If my speaker will start to die after 25years, I will replace them with 1"driver with appropriate horn...
hi
im using the same combo
could you share your xo setting?
my xo sadly make the pr120 about 3db too low compared to the pr170mo....
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