Wave guides are all the hot design for home audio right now. Everybody is experimenting with them with everything from 1 inch compression drivers, to modifying them to accept hifi domes. Emerald Physics and others have also gone one step further by incorporating the concept into a large coax.
What are the best coax drivers available to DIY for home audio? Does anybody know which driver Emerald is using? I see most of the pro coax speakers use a 1.4 inch compression driver with big power handling that I won't need and bass tunings for a two way which I would rather cross at 2-300 to the bass drivers. I'm looking for quality over quantity. Any ideas?
What are the best coax drivers available to DIY for home audio? Does anybody know which driver Emerald is using? I see most of the pro coax speakers use a 1.4 inch compression driver with big power handling that I won't need and bass tunings for a two way which I would rather cross at 2-300 to the bass drivers. I'm looking for quality over quantity. Any ideas?
Altec 604 from GPA
Great Plains Audio's Two-Way Loudspeakers
EDIT: 2-300 hz will be tough with a coax. Perhaps a good FR and a helper woofer?
Great Plains Audio's Two-Way Loudspeakers
EDIT: 2-300 hz will be tough with a coax. Perhaps a good FR and a helper woofer?
B&C closer
The B&C is getting closer to what I am looking for and the price is about right. FS, Xmax are all about right. Now if some one will forget power handling and put some real hifi smooth response into a package like that we will be set.
The B&C is getting closer to what I am looking for and the price is about right. FS, Xmax are all about right. Now if some one will forget power handling and put some real hifi smooth response into a package like that we will be set.
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I've used several 12-15" cast frame Eminence - not sure how you would like its horn - - martinsoundpro probably has 1114 12" coax with 80oz magnet and edgewound coil around $120 retail(?) APT50 compression driver will work ok. BMS has some nice looking coaxials over at Assistance Audio - I would have tried one but want lower mms for Karlson couplers
Martin 1114
Martin 1114
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Hi-Vi Research TRINITY6 3-way Ribbon Coaxial:
TRINITY6 - HiVi research 3-way full-range system - EUROPE AUDIO
TRINITY6 - HiVi research 3-way full-range system - EUROPE AUDIO
What about Speaker Stuff
$350 for 28. 14/side and it would be coax / line array setup. Some room correction and your away. If you run HT not stereo another case for surrounds would be sweet. Could box or inwall install
$350 for 28. 14/side and it would be coax / line array setup. Some room correction and your away. If you run HT not stereo another case for surrounds would be sweet. Could box or inwall install
Dunno Dan, those drivers look a little far apart to be coax's
Look closer, the top unit is indeed a custom coax, very nice engineering.
Tom Danley mentioned that all coax have problems, and the least one was an 8" B&C. However, that was mentioned some time ago.
I've been looking for a pair of 12" coax to do a small OB to hang in my room. So far, I have not found any evaluation of the current ones. I'm tempted to buy a pair with small waveguide in the middle so that I can test stuffing foam with them. But they cost $900 a pair.
I've been to a few clubs in Las Vegas. Their CD sounds horrible. The worst is at PH.
I've been looking for a pair of 12" coax to do a small OB to hang in my room. So far, I have not found any evaluation of the current ones. I'm tempted to buy a pair with small waveguide in the middle so that I can test stuffing foam with them. But they cost $900 a pair.
I've been to a few clubs in Las Vegas. Their CD sounds horrible. The worst is at PH.
Sammi has these. Not a bad driver at all. you have to do your own XO but I've heard that some use a simple cap and are happy.
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