I am dipping my toes into speaker building and have just purchased a 2nd pair of Oris BD150 horns that I can fit up with a pair of Coral Flat 8 II drivers. In an ideal simple world I would like to build some bass cabinets and fit a woofer and a simple XO and drive them all off a 22W SET 845 amp.
To be honest Xmax and Qs are a strange language to me and I dont want to stuff this all up.
What is the best driver choice for the LF driver?, I would love to have super tight musical Bass and I dont need it to go Super super low (but it does need to cross over around 150hz.
I am happy to listen to all suggestions because I really am a bit lost
To be honest Xmax and Qs are a strange language to me and I dont want to stuff this all up.
What is the best driver choice for the LF driver?, I would love to have super tight musical Bass and I dont need it to go Super super low (but it does need to cross over around 150hz.
I am happy to listen to all suggestions because I really am a bit lost
How big, how loud, how sensitive (you want at least a couple more dB than the Coral in the Oris. BD150 reaches 150 Hz? And how much budget?
dave
dave
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the reply, I will run some tests on the Corals when they are in the horns to work out where they are at sensitivity wise, a recent T&S sweep of the drivers came back around 92.8DB per driver, I expect the horn will bump that a bit, budget is a little bit fluid, less is better, but I would be comfortable up to around $600USD per driver.
Thanks for the reply, I will run some tests on the Corals when they are in the horns to work out where they are at sensitivity wise, a recent T&S sweep of the drivers came back around 92.8DB per driver, I expect the horn will bump that a bit, budget is a little bit fluid, less is better, but I would be comfortable up to around $600USD per driver.
Dave, I will be talking to you in the new year about an Onken design for a pair of Goodmans Axiom 301s that I am having rebuilt
Only from the lower cutoff up 3 or 4 octaves, above thatteh Coral is a direct radiator.
dave
I have done a monster miniOnekn for the Axiom 201. So i expect 301 will work too.
Note that a miniOnken is not officially an Onken, they have quite different tuning.
dave
Note that a miniOnken is not officially an Onken, they have quite different tuning.
dave
Only at the lowest frequencies, why usually drivers with rising response are used. A horn is only good for 3-4 octaves then it unloads.
dave