Dayton RS Orion clone?

[bhg41088]

Anyone though of using the Dayton RS drivers for a Orion Clone? I thought it would be great to do a dipole design using the 8" Dayton Rs and the Seas 27tdfc along with 2 Dayton RS 10" woofers per side. I would do this passively more than likely. thoughts?

[joe carrow]

Originally posted by bhg41088
Anyone though of using the Dayton RS drivers for a Orion Clone? I thought it would be great to do a dipole design using the 8" Dayton Rs and the Seas 27tdfc along with 2 Dayton RS 10" woofers per side. I would do this passively more than likely. thoughts?

Thoughts... I actually was thinking of something along those lines a while ago. Here are a few issues with it as you've presented it:

1) Those dayton 10"s only have 6mm xmax. Keep in mind that the Peerless XLS 10" has almost twice the excursion. This will place a limit on how loud/low these will go.

2) It doesn't look like the 8" will go much past 1khz without major problems. link here
This will give you a lot trouble mating it to that tweeter. Without an easily tweek-able active crossover; it'd be a real gamble to even attempt it.

3) Active crossovers- really a must. In addition to being able to tweak the crossover point and slope for good driver integration (and avoidance of nasty effects of pushing a driver to its limit), I think that the Orion uses an active equalization filter or two to tailor response.

Here are a few suggestions-

->Definitely go active!!

->Consider an MTM with the Dayton 6" rather than a single 8".

->Seek another woofer for the bottom. I still haven't figured out if this is a good idea, but the dayton 15" IB could be attractive. Does anyone know how high they can play, or what their distortion is like?

Just my two cents! Good luck on the project.

Joe

[DougL]

2) It doesn't look like the 8" will go much past 1khz without major problems. link here

I may be wrong, but the Production units look to have a good response to about 2k.

Dayton 8" RS graph

I was looking at a Phoenix clone with either 2 8" or 7" RS drivers.
They do have lots of potential.

FWIW

Doug