I suggest you contact Dave of Planet10. He has worked a lot with the fe126en and offers modded drivers to address these issues and can give you some advice on how to diy.
Been looking into that. Best I've found is the Wavecor TW030WA12
But it seems even 1200hz is a stretch here.
The Audax 13LB25AL seems like a better driver to me
Fostex FE108EΣ could do the job. Also there are some 3"/4" drivers from Visaton, Monacor, FaitalPRO that have good sensitivity and probably will work for you...
You want something efficient... try this.... caveat, I have not tried this myself, but it should be pretty loud at 99db...
FaitalPRO M5N8-80 5" Neodymium Professional Midrange 8 Ohm
Oon
FaitalPRO M5N8-80 5" Neodymium Professional Midrange 8 Ohm
Oon
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Well, ideally you want a ~1.365" eff. dia., so a short WG on an Altec/GPA or similar 1.4-1.5" exit compression driver, which of course will yield the highest practical efficiency.
GM
Wavecor TW030WA11 | HiFiCompass
-it's pretty good as far as non-linear distortion. 🙂
As long as the crossover is steep at 1 kHz, it should be good.
It's not particularly efficient though (..its 4 ohms). 😱
This one in a deep enough horn should be at 96 db at 1 kHz with a very low non-linear result:
Dayton Audio AMTPRO-4 | HiFiCompass
Dayton Audio AMTPRO-4 | HiFiCompass
..or without horn loading:
https://www.parts-express.com/pedocs/specs/276-446--ast25120-spec-sheet.pdf
https://www.parts-express.com/pedocs/specs/276-446--ast25120-spec-sheet.pdf
This one is interesting! Read something about it having much better vertical dispersion than other AMT's / ribbons. Is that actually the case?
Although crossing 2nd order at ~1000 hz would mean a much steeper acoustical slope. Meaning I would probably need to go 4th order on the woofer... Hmm. Comprimises 😀
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I've now started a new thread for my project taking the input from this thread here: High sensitivity soundbar project
Thank you everyone!
Thank you everyone!
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