A good sounding 6.5" midbass, efficient (>=90dB) and under 100$, does this exist?

[Bricolo]

I only see efficient full rangers, and <90dB midbasses

Am I looking for something that doesn't exist?

[Ken L]

Fostex FE166e fits

http://www.madisound.com/FE166E.pdf

I'm running FE206E's and they sound a lot better than only $84 US should sound.

While I haven't heard the FE166E, others seem to think well of it

Regards

Ken L

[Bricolo]

Thanks, but I'm NOT looking for a a fullrange speaker

[Dave Jones]

I don't know anything about it, but this one fits your price range and SPL criteria:

http://www.speakercity.com/focal/com...s/6k4311.shtml

[Bricolo]

"efficiency: 90dB...

...sensitivity: 88.91"


Have I missed something?

[Bull]

Eminence Alpha 6 [it's 6 inch,bass mid ,average sens 1w at 1m 97 db]costs £20 inc vat.

www.eminence-speaker.com also www.usspeaker.com

[GM]

>Have I missed something?
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I assume a typo. I calculate 90.05dB/W/m and 91.3dB/2.83V/m.

GM

[LaMa]

Originally posted by Bricolo
I only see efficient full rangers, and <90dB midbasses

Am I looking for something that doesn't exist?

They exist, but their bass-performance is less sensitive, and if you take into account the effects of Baffle-Step, you end with a 2way of about 86 dB/W/m, so you need atleast 2 drivers in a 2.5 way configuration.

Drivers which are quite efficient you can find in the catalog of your fellow french manufacturers Audax, Focal, Cabasse, PHL

[Bricolo]

Originally posted by LaMa


They exist, but their bass-performance is less sensitive, and if you take into account the effects of Baffle-Step, you end with a 2way of about 86 dB/W/m

That's what I'm worried about.
I want to start with something simple, a 2 way (1 tweeter, 1 midbass)

But with all the midbasses I've seen, +-87dB/W, plus BFC, I end up with a 84-86dB/W loudspeaker

[SimontY]

Hi Bricolo,

My speakers use 2x Seas W17PPI/H571 (6.5" coated paper midbass, inverted surround, phase plug, big magnet, upto 4khz, bass good into the high forties). If you can buy it, it will cost about 70E iirc. I think the sensitivity@1w/m is 91db, with two in the actual speaker, the overall sensitivity is roughly 91db/w/m. This driver seems really good, although I am not 100% happy with the speaker overall (can't blame this driver though).

Seems to sound clean, precise, detailed, punchy, if a little lean in the mid-range - again, this is the x-over design, probably. Maybe in a 2.5-way configuration, it would kick some more ***...

Good luck finding something, here is just one option of many!!


-Simon