planet10 said:
I will take some photos and post the pics and scans of the datasheets, but if you want a sample straight from the horse's mouth...
http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/speaker_comp/FE-E-Sigma-Series.shtml
Title says "Sigma", the name of the drivers is with Zees, and the datasheets have the cyrillic letter. So there are flavors for all tastes
Notwithstanding the spellings/misspellings, they are fine drivers and if I had the money I would have bought a couple pieces of each one
.Very interesting to know of the shorting rings on some of the drivers. That could account for the slight SPL differences for several flavors / dates for the same diameter chassis.
Gastón
ghpicard said:
Guess it is time to write Fostex... it will be interesting to see if they respond. BTW it is Greek not Cyrillic... in cyrillic it would be "C" (as in CCCP = SSSR Soviet Socialist Somethiong Republic)
[they are fine drivers and if I had the money I would have bought a couple pieces of each one
I have 2 pair of FE108eS... one modded to the hilt (still need to EnABL the phase plugs) one stock. One of the next auditions will be the modded drivers in Aiko (best box we've found for these beauties yet)
dave
planet10 said:
Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik: literal transaltion (or as close as possible) is 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' IIRC -my Russian is extremely rusty. About as rusty as most of the old Soviet Northern Fleet.
planet10 said:
I'll look forward to hearing about that.
stroop said:
Haven't heard the FE108eS in the Mets... Frugel-Horn needs corners (i don't have any) Aiko doesn't so there is a room dependency. Overall as a rough guess i'd give the 108 an edge in Aiko over 108 in FH, but not over 126 in FH. This of course is all complicated by the fact that FE108eS have been stock so far, and FE126 have had my earlier mods. Both FE126 & FE108 are now entering new territory in terms of performance so all bets are off...
dave
This weekend at the BurningAmp Festival, I got to listen to a bunch (10+) great diy speakers. Lousymusician had brought his metronomes with Hemp Acoustic FR8's, and they were stunning. I was among a number of people who really admired them. I think they won a prize. To me, they were clearly the overall best, most enjoyable speaker there - and there were lots of very good speakers there.
In case anyone is on the lookout for something really good to build, I can't recommend these enough. And for under $300 a pair, that sets the bar pretty high. I wouldn't describe these speakers in terms of dynamics, fr, soundstaging because doing so wouldn't capture their totality. Simply put, what they made had more body, more naturalness, and more musicality than anything else there. I'm going to build my parents a pair, and I bet they never replace them (and I'll always be able to listen to them
).
Cheers to all those who worked these speakers up!
In case anyone is on the lookout for something really good to build, I can't recommend these enough. And for under $300 a pair, that sets the bar pretty high. I wouldn't describe these speakers in terms of dynamics, fr, soundstaging because doing so wouldn't capture their totality. Simply put, what they made had more body, more naturalness, and more musicality than anything else there. I'm going to build my parents a pair, and I bet they never replace them (and I'll always be able to listen to them
). Cheers to all those who worked these speakers up!
Hi everyone, my first post on this forum. Thanks to this thread, this will be my first DIY project. Im one of those who likes to know everything before I start so a few questions....im really new to the field so...my jargon isnt that good btw. My only saving grace is that i have a fairly good ear and a passion for music
My original plan was to use the Fe108sigma build because it was the shortest box i could get. But after visiting Planet_10, it looks like they have some nice drivers as well that i can pound out of the standard 4x2 sheet
what do you guys think about putting a Modified FE126e or FE127e or a Creative Sound FR125S in there? What would i have to modify?
My original plan was to use the Fe108sigma build because it was the shortest box i could get. But after visiting Planet_10, it looks like they have some nice drivers as well that i can pound out of the standard 4x2 sheet
what do you guys think about putting a Modified FE126e or FE127e or a Creative Sound FR125S in there? What would i have to modify?
SunDragon said:
We haven't figured a Met for the FR125S yet, but a suspect we could get Scott to run the sim. The FE126 & FE127 are both in the table. My felling is that the 127 is probably a better choice than the 126 (Bipole 127 is high on my list)
As to the choice of CSS or Fostex, that may come down to the amplifier that you are using.
dave
Scottmoose...
If you have the time, can you please run a Metronome sim for this driver? I'm considering using pairs of them in a Metronome bipole configuration with a ribbon tweeter. How do you think it'd do?
Here are the specs:
PHL 1230
Efficiency: 93db 1W/1M
Impedance: 16 ohms
Fs: 45Hz
Re: 12.1 Ohms
Qms: 3.1
Qes: .27
Qts: .25
Cms: 1000
Sd: .0143 square meters
Vas: .030
Xmax: +/- 3.5mm
Here's a link to the data sheet:
http://www.phlaudio.com/datasheets/17_pdf/1330_1290.pdf
Thanks!
If you have the time, can you please run a Metronome sim for this driver? I'm considering using pairs of them in a Metronome bipole configuration with a ribbon tweeter. How do you think it'd do?
Here are the specs:
PHL 1230
Efficiency: 93db 1W/1M
Impedance: 16 ohms
Fs: 45Hz
Re: 12.1 Ohms
Qms: 3.1
Qes: .27
Qts: .25
Cms: 1000
Sd: .0143 square meters
Vas: .030
Xmax: +/- 3.5mm
Here's a link to the data sheet:
http://www.phlaudio.com/datasheets/17_pdf/1330_1290.pdf
Thanks!
As in those with Hemp drivers IIRC? Dimensions are up on the frugal-horn site: http://www.frugal-horn.com/metronome-table.html
