Oaktron Drivers...

[koolscooby]

driver find

as per the above link, i found some "Oaktron" drivers, that was the only thing [above link] that came up in google! hehe...

i have a 12", 10", and 2 4" tweeters... are these worth messing with for anything hi-fi? if not then i'm going to buy some speakrs on some of these surplus sites

The speakers work, but sound like ****, i'm guessing this is because there is no crossover network on them? just a hunch... i dont know TS (TS means what? all i know is that it has to do with certain speaker specs hehe) i'm kinda new to this stuff, so thanks for hangin in with me

btw... reason i'm looking into some speakers is 2 reasons:
A) I'll need some to go with my Aleph-X
B) I can get a piece of mdf up to 4x6 (feet) cut on a cnc table by a buddy, so i figure i can build cabinets =D...

[kelticwizard]

Koolscooby:

The TS specs refer to specifications outlined in a series of articles by Neville Thiele and Richard Small, published in the Journal Of The Audio Engineering Society in the early seventies.

When you put a speaker into various size boxes, the thing most affected is the bass. It could be boomy, it could be thin, it could sound great in a sealed box but boomy in a ported box, etc.

There is a set of electrical measurements every speaker has which determines how the bass sounds in a certain size and type of box. Although there are many of these measurements, there are only about four really important ones. Since Thiele and Small wrote the articles that show everyone how these few specifications work to determine the bass of the speaker, they are called Thiele-Small numbers, or TS numbers.

Before Thiele and Small published those articles, manufacturers of ported boxes especially were doing things strictly by trial and error, without any idea of what they were doing exactly. Aritcles were written giving contradictory advice!

After Thiele and Small, a manufacturer who wanted a nice smooth bass response knows how to manufacture a woofer so it will fit into a certain size box and sound nice and smooth. Also, a hobbyist who has the Thiele-Small specifications can design and build a box which will make his speaker give a good smooth bass response.

Nowadays, there are many easy-to-use programs, many of them freeware, which use the Thiele-Small specifications to give you a nice graph of what your bass will look like in a certain size and type of box.

PS: Many manufacturers publish the Thiele-Small specs for their speakers. Some do not. And sometimes the published specs of the manufacturers give you are not the real specs of the speaker when it is measured.

[koolscooby]

Wow ... thanks so much, now i understand what TS is at least ... just time to figure out if these drivers are any use