Thanks for reply Dave, it's a difficult one. I know many drivers fit but do you recommend any which excel in both boxes.
One room is only 14 x 9 but may try them on my main rig which is a lot larger 25 x 14
If you want to listen fairly loud in your big room, FHXL would be my choice. If not FH3 would be ok, but you can't push them too hard in a big room. Also depends on the driver in question too.
jeff
TerribleTanker,
The FH3 uses 4" drivers and the FH-Lite uses 3" drivers; both the FH3 and the FH-Lite would work in your 14' x 9' room.
What sort of musical genres do you usually listen to?
The FH3 uses 4" drivers and the FH-Lite uses 3" drivers; both the FH3 and the FH-Lite would work in your 14' x 9' room.
What sort of musical genres do you usually listen to?
Girl and guitar, acoustic, smooth jazz, small jazz ensembles, vocal music - these genres can play nicely at moderate volumes with a single modestly sized wide-band driver speaker like the FH3. If you are more into rock and heavier genres, then in my experience cone area matters, and woofer support makes a difference.
FH3 - MA A7.3/P7HD/A7ms
Lite - MA 5.2/3/CHN50.Fostex FF85wk, Faital Pro 3Fx
Some of those drivers benefit from some simple tweeks.
dave
Not sure… A7ms has more top end issues, a couple thinned coats of arcylic Gloss goes a wasy to solving that.
A7ms, in theory, should be more resolving, but P7HDis a solid choice, the resurrection of the A7,3 in th wenew basket.
dave
A7ms, in theory, should be more resolving, but P7HDis a solid choice, the resurrection of the A7,3 in th wenew basket.
dave
I should also mention top of the heap both price and performance wize, MAOP 7, which would be consideres an A7.3/P7HD t8rned up to 11.
dave
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Yes I did see the MOAP 7 but I thought I have to balance the build based on end use and front end equipment. Really looking forward to the build and to test the finished boxes.
Chris & i just spent the afternoon playing with REW and the miniDSP.
If you are lucky Chrios will post some graphs.
Basically the FF85wKeN in FH-Lite was close to ruler flat from 500-9Khz, with some room humps and dips below that. Top rolled gently down some dB by 20KHz.
woofer is the brown Trianguaklr columns/wedges in the back.
Bass in room at teh listening position, produced bass down quite low, into the 40s. Adding the woofer did not ad dmuch extention but boy did it bring authority.
dave
If you are lucky Chrios will post some graphs.
Basically the FF85wKeN in FH-Lite was close to ruler flat from 500-9Khz, with some room humps and dips below that. Top rolled gently down some dB by 20KHz.
woofer is the brown Trianguaklr columns/wedges in the back.
Bass in room at teh listening position, produced bass down quite low, into the 40s. Adding the woofer did not ad dmuch extention but boy did it bring authority.
dave
Frustratingly, the entire batch of this afternoon’s multiple REW measurements seemed to have gang aft a-gley, and I’m not sure when another traveling road show can be arranged.
All that I can say is that the little FF85WK still sounds quite engaging, and an SDX7 per side certainly adds some heft and authority to the bottom couple of octaves.
All that I can say is that the little FF85WK still sounds quite engaging, and an SDX7 per side certainly adds some heft and authority to the bottom couple of octaves.