I came across 6 of these planar drivers. From the very small amount of info I have found, they look like they would make for a great OB speaker. Does anyone have any data on these? I have found very little. Thanks for any help...
Cab,
I have had a set of ATC planars for several years. My application is as open back line arrays--a stack of 2 or 3 planars per side. I've used strips of wood to frame the planars. Then metal L bookshelf brackets mounted on wood as the stands. As the ATC planars are nearly full range (they cover down to the 200s Hz range). You can use open back subwoofers (say a woofer in an H frame or other open back arrangements) for the bass range and then crossover to the planar stacks. The stack of planars are connected in series.
These planars have limited vertical dispersion above or below the ends of the when positioned vertically but either 2 or 3 will cover both the sitting and standing listener in a typical room. Awesome sound in room as the horizontal dispersion is naturally broad and these speakers are essentially near field so little sound falloff.
Some of my line array adventures started with this:
http://www.audioroundtable.com/misc/nflawp.pdf
Let us hear about your work with the planars.
Jim
I have had a set of ATC planars for several years. My application is as open back line arrays--a stack of 2 or 3 planars per side. I've used strips of wood to frame the planars. Then metal L bookshelf brackets mounted on wood as the stands. As the ATC planars are nearly full range (they cover down to the 200s Hz range). You can use open back subwoofers (say a woofer in an H frame or other open back arrangements) for the bass range and then crossover to the planar stacks. The stack of planars are connected in series.
These planars have limited vertical dispersion above or below the ends of the when positioned vertically but either 2 or 3 will cover both the sitting and standing listener in a typical room. Awesome sound in room as the horizontal dispersion is naturally broad and these speakers are essentially near field so little sound falloff.
Some of my line array adventures started with this:
http://www.audioroundtable.com/misc/nflawp.pdf
Let us hear about your work with the planars.
Jim
Wow, thank you very much for that link and your comments.
For background, I have recently deployed a set of Magnapan Tympani IVa speakers. They are 3 18"x6' panels per side! The highs and mids are wonderful but despite the two panels per side of bass drivers, I find the bass very much lacking in any sort of impactful way. Due to the bass and the way these speakers dominate the room, I started to explore other options. I came across a set of Acoustic Elegance 18" dipole woofers and my first thought was to replace the bass panels with the AE woofers in an h frame and keep the Magnapan mid/tweeter panels.
I had purchased 20 neo-8's and 6 of the neoplanar 24's several years ago with plans to use one or the other to construct an ob speaker set but never got around to it. Then then the Tympani's came along...
Now, I am considering using the AE woofers in an h frame, and either the neoplanars in a baffle or a combination of the neoplanars and the Tympani ribbon tweeter in combination in their own baffle.
Can you tell me more about the neoplanar? It is speced at 200hz to 20000hz but I wonder how low I can realistically cross over 2 or 3 of them to the woofer, at say 250-300hz? Also, how are they at the high end? Would crossing them over at say 4500hz to the tympani tweeters be of limited value?
Have you measured the neoplanars? I have looked everywhere for measured data and can find nothing..Any help appreciated...I would love to see a photo of your set up...thanks!