DIY High End Studio Monitors

[digitalthor]

It depends on which Dayton speaker you want to talk about.
The "RS225-8" model is a speaker designed for a two-way speaker. It has a rather high MMS and a rather small BL, which automatically leads to a rather high inertia and a not very precise reproduction of the transients. It is a compromise solution for a two-way speaker.
I make three-way speakers, and I found speakers better suited to my design.
By the way, I do not recommend using this speaker over 1.4KHz.
His biggest problem is that he stores a lot of energy.
It's not a bad speaker, but it's certainly not one of the best.

Thank you 🙂 It was exactly that one 🙂



The idea of using the RS225-8, was to make a diy copy of the Dutch and Dutch 8C, crossed around 1200hz with an 8" waveguide on a SB26ADC.

 

[Alex Music]

I would not use SB26ADC-C000-4. I had very bad experiences with them.
They have a very poor quality construction, I burned four pieces during the tests. At SPL over 102 dB they heat up and the glue dissolves ...
I do not recommend them.
However, even the sound is not very good, the level of details is poor.

 

[Alex Music]

The Seas tweeters used by D&D are not very high-end. They have a metallic character and are not very detailed. Classic problems that aluminum membrane tweeters have ...
I understand why D&D used it, but I can't recommend it ... Sorry.

 

[digitalthor]

So.... what tweeter is just a bit better than the SB26ADC or Seas in your opinion ?


The Seas DXT works pretty well here 🙂

 

[Alex Music]

It depends on the budget. If you want tweeters from this budget range, below 100Euro / USD, I recommend silk tweeters. If you want something better, try beryllium, and if you want something extremely good, try diamond.

 

[digitalthor]

For me, the diamond tweeter is kind of ridiculous - unless I was sweating money 😀


Bliesma T25B could be an option in an Augerpro waveguide. Cant see the point in having a tweeter play all over the place, when I clearly never enjoyed a speaker without an even power response.


How did you burn them? I burned one tweeter in my life.... because I foolishly made a sweep from 20hz with a bit of volume in my fully active system - very quick death of that one 😀

 

[hifijim]

I found the SB26CDC tweeter to be quite excellent, especially for its price... Many have said that the SB26ADC is very similar in character and performance.

I found the Satori TW29TXB-N to have a slightly higher level of performance, subjectively. The measurements were not that different, but I hear a slightly more natural sound, more detail. This tweeter is more than 4x the price of the SB26CDC...

I would not use SB26ADC-C000-4. I had very bad experiences with them.
They have a very poor quality construction, I burned four pieces during the tests. At SPL over 102 dB they heat up and the glue dissolves ...
I do not recommend them.
However, even the sound is not very good, the level of details is poor.
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My experience was quite different than yours.

J.