Wool cone - silver flute???

[rv1890]

Im searching on this site and cant seem to find anyone that speaks of the Silver flute wool cone speakers.
My questions are.
1) How are wool cone speakers??....hows the sound and quality compared to paper or carbon fiber??.

2)How are the silver flute speakers? are they a decent purchase??How come I dont find very many projects that use them??.


Thanks guys.

[rv1890]

13 viewers and no ideas or comments....come on guys....am i in the right web site???

[aussie78]

well... I haven't seen any systems using the Silver Flute speakers other than zaphaudio.com
That's the only one that I know of. I am building that one right now and i am still " almost done" but so far with running full range in a small sealed box it sounds half decent... goes pretty low for a 5incher. Can't wait to have the XO done and see what it can really do
AUSSiE

[Zaph]

The cones are generally pretty good. They are a bit more rigid than the average paper or carbon fiber, and they do have breakup nodes. The surrounds and frames of the Silver Flute woofers are also very good, but the motor assembly is generally low tech. Just a straight flat pole piece without any special geometry. As such, harmonic distortion is only average or slightly higher, and Le is kinda high too. Overall, the woofers are a good value, considering the low cost.

ps. The Silver flute planar tweeters suck however.

Here's one project with the 5.5":



http://www.zaphaudio.com/audio-speaker13.html

[Samuel Jayaraj]

I have 20 pieces of the 6.5" 4ohm Silver Flute drivers sitting around, having arrived from Madisound about a month ago. Honestly, I have just looked at the drivers but haven't played any music through them to even comment.

However the build quality is excellent given the rather low price.

I already have the crossover parts; I made my own xover board and these are to be paired with HiVi's K1 dome tweeters. I am sure to try these out in a couple of days in a QWT. I will report when I have done some listening.

[robertG]

I played a lot with the Silver Flutes, 6.5 in, 4 ohms.

These are very, very good drivers. We could compare the sound of our 2 way prototypes with mucho expensive Micro Utopia (around 6K$) and guess what, the Silver Flutes, properly used are way smoother than the Micro Utopia Be.

When I say, properly used, I mean, forget about simulations and try these in exotic enclosures (TL, very large BR or double BR) and they are absolute gems.

The difference between those and ScanSpeak Revelators is very small, it's like there clones of the Scan Speak...

[chainenoble]

i have the 6.5" in a mtm with a seas 25tafc.and they sound great.beat anything under 1500 retail.very warm sounding.they don't compair to my seas odin,but a fantastic value.

[Ang]

I'm thinking about the silver flute in a TL vs usher paper-carbon drivers 3x the price. Any performance comparisons? How long are your tl's? Thanks.