Who makes the best 7" and 6.5" drivers?

Who makes the best 7" and 6.5" drivers?

  • Seas

  • Scanspeak

  • SB Audio

  • Peerless

  • Dayton

  • Accuton

  • Purifi

  • Hivi

  • Visaton

  • Monacor

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#46
As somebody said - best for what? Everything else is to subjective...

For me 18W Revelators are still pretiest girls on the block with all sides well balanced. Now after more than two decades of life they are also legends. And price is still relatively reasonable. When I was drooling over them 20 years ago they were like 180 EUR per piece and now they are just above 200. That seems OK.

My existing pair needs one additional pair so I can start with long wanted 2.5 way transmission line...

And Black Friday is coming...do you here me sales people and AI algorithms, we need Revies on discount!

🙂

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LeifB60 said:
I think nearly all speakers are made in China.
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When you include the number of drivers made for phones, computers, TVs, they do make a very large percentage.

But there is considrable diversification of supply chains happening and, like budget manufacturing used to be associated with Japan, manufacturing is moving on from China.

When it comes to drivers where the cost of labour is not as significant, you see a broader distribution of manufacturers.

dave
 
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#52
b_force said:
Well, even scientifically speaking, when things look better, they sound better.

Although, that being said
You can't compensate for major flaws obviously.
Which sometimes seems the only approach when you go to audio and hifi fairs and tradeshows.........
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Not when I'm blindfolded (or blind people listen) they don't. 😉

Edit: I long ago gave up paying any attention at shows (or even attending). Since I've had the dubious pleasure of helping run show rooms, I have a degree of sympathy for those involved: setup time is often short, the room acoustics are unknown in advance and 99.9% of the time fairly rubbish, listening position for attendees is usually badly compromised, and further ruined by other chairs (and people), the rest of the system is often an unknown for everyone concerned, including many of those showing product as they'll have borrowed significant parts of the kit in the room, the material is usually rubbish, probably unknown in detail, or if not, the same track is being played in 50% of the rooms. Good in theory, in practice, you're sick to the back teeth of it after the umpteenth repetition and stop caring. Usually, there's little to really learn from attending, other than possibly the fact that some kit exists that you hadn't seen elsewhere, and that it really is possible to go to somewhere which charges £11 for a pint of ordinary lager.
 
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#55
If a blind person is listening, it's a moot point. 😉 As for this end -if I'm blindfolded or equivalent, it's always double-blind, since I don't trust my hearing, and I don't trust my brain not to be fooled if it isn't.

I'm not sure we'd get a whole lot of concensus about prettiness anyway, Emilia Clarke & Rebecca Ferguson notwithstanding, obviously... :rofl:
 
#60
One of the best French loudspeaker maker ever - but I'm not sure if they are still in business today :

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Many of the founders of French brands of today comes from there : Focal (Jacques Mahul), Triangle (Renaud de Vergnette), Davis (Michel Visan)...

My WAF speakers (built in the 90s) uses AUDAX speakers : an HM130G0 (Qts=0.23 / Fs=41Hz / Eff=92dB/W/m) and a TW51A (tweeter) :

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