Your favorite 3-4” fullrange driver

[Jimmy154]

These drivers were all tested, compared, and voted on previously in the “Subjective Blind” comparison threads:


A Subjective Blind Comparison of 3in to 5in Full Range Drivers

A Subjective Blind Comparison of 3in to 5in drivers - Round 2

A Subjective Blind Comparison of 2in to 4in drivers - Round 3

A Subjective Blind Comparison of 2in to 4in drivers - Round 4

A Subjective Blind Comparison of 2in to 3.5in drivers - Round 5

This is awesome data:

Where are the results of round 2-5?

 

[hm]

i made an superb test with scan Speak the MINI POSAUNE

 

[pelanj]

3FE22 is my favourite🙂

 

[LeifB60]

Alpair 10Maop is my favourite.
Alpair 11MS second favourite.

 

[Scottmoose]

No doubt, but those are 5 1/4in & 5 3/4in drivers respectively rather than 3in or 4in. 😉

 

[LeifB60]

Well.. 😉
I like

Tang Band W4-1879​

Scan-Speak Discovery 10F/4424G00​

Markaudio Alpair-7MS Gold​

Markaudio Alpair-7Maop​

Visaton B 80​

Dayton Audio PS95​

Good drivers.

 

[Scottmoose]

You must really like them with letters that size.

 

[LeifB60]

You must really like them with letters that size.

Maybe.. 😜😆

 

[atcman]

Smallish room CHN70 in pensil cabs Fantastic

 

[Poultrygeist]

One of my favorites is the Coral Holey Basket. They were used in TOTL Sony reel to reel tape recorders. Excellent in open baffles with bass support as well as in Frugel-Horn Mk3s.

 

[planet10]

The class of 4” drivers that the Holey Basket Coral comes from was well populated at the time. At one point i had over 20 distinct examples. This driver is now represented by the FE103 and likely the best example ithe FE103 SOL. The Foster driver was the most common IME (Admirals sold a zillion of them in NA.

The Coral and the much rarer Atomix are considered best of breed, but the Corls tend to suffer from stiff surround syndrome. A 16Ω version (2 of them) come in one small Monarch enclosure as well as the SOny source. There is also a related 5” whih is very good.

dave

 

[Poultrygeist]

The class of 4” drivers that the Holey Basket Coral comes from was well populated at the time. At one point i had over 20 distinct examples. This driver is now represented by the FE103 and likely the best example ithe FE103 SOL. The Foster driver was the most common IME (Admirals sold a zillion of them in NA.

The Coral and the much rarer Atomix are considered best of breed, but the Corls tend to suffer from stiff surround syndrome. A 16Ω version (2 of them) come in one small Monarch enclosure as well as the SOny source. There is also a related 5” whih is very good.

dave

Do those other drivers have alnico motors like the CHB's?

 

[twocents]

My favourite 3", not mentioned yet, is the Peerless 830987 in a TABAQ.

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[planet10]

There are a couple here that are newer and do not.

dave