By chance I discover this new PHL loudspeaker driver series:
PHL Audio: Products ?*5 inch in
Boutique haut parleurs et audio DIY
Who have heard one of them and which commercial available loudspeaker products are equipped with this drivers?
Most of interest are the follow:
900, 973 (both low-mid) so as 930, 982 and 983.
Thank you for advices.
PHL Audio: Products ?*5 inch in
Boutique haut parleurs et audio DIY
Who have heard one of them and which commercial available loudspeaker products are equipped with this drivers?
Most of interest are the follow:
900, 973 (both low-mid) so as 930, 982 and 983.
Thank you for advices.
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You did contacta Dieter Achenbach, right? He seems to be most knowledgeable about PHL.
I wholeheartedly agree with you! Nevertheless, don't you think some of their midranges are pretty good as measured by Zaph, Achenbach, to name a couple?
I have an eye on their 8" 2520 midrange.
I would say that their drivers represent a market that is currently lacking in that they are producing mainly higher sensitivity drivers that aren't necessarily aimed just at the pro world.
Some of their drivers do look like they show nice performance, but not all of them do. Lots of their drivers exhibit a ton of resonances throughout the midrange and lower treble, as is indicated by all of the impedance wiggles. These show regions of energy storage and in some cases result in spikes in the distortion plots.
A lot of PHLs drivers seemed to show 2nd and 3rd order harmonics resting at about -40dB, which is pretty poor. A few though show significantly better performance with them going down to -50 and better. These are the drivers I'd be interested in using.
http://lsv-achenbach.de/images/lautsprecher/test/KT_Test_phl-E17-1120.jpg
For example is one of the better ones.
Their drivers appear to use more basic motors, but as Zaph mentions get some increased linearity by having very powerful magnets.
Some of their drivers do look like they show nice performance, but not all of them do. Lots of their drivers exhibit a ton of resonances throughout the midrange and lower treble, as is indicated by all of the impedance wiggles. These show regions of energy storage and in some cases result in spikes in the distortion plots.
A lot of PHLs drivers seemed to show 2nd and 3rd order harmonics resting at about -40dB, which is pretty poor. A few though show significantly better performance with them going down to -50 and better. These are the drivers I'd be interested in using.
http://lsv-achenbach.de/images/lautsprecher/test/KT_Test_phl-E17-1120.jpg
For example is one of the better ones.
Their drivers appear to use more basic motors, but as Zaph mentions get some increased linearity by having very powerful magnets.
Thanks for the insight. I guess this one qualifies ok in terms of harmonics, but no so in terms of wiggles in the impedance curve. What do you think?
LSV Dieter Achenbach
BTW, it is to be used with a Beyma TPL-150H.
Looks like JBL ist using a shielded Version of the PHL 900 in their new monitors (LSR705):
LSR705i Products | JBL Professional
LSR705i Products | JBL Professional
any news?
Dieter Achenbach also don't know this.
Maybe a member with french language can call for me there and ask, in which commercial available mini monitors this drivers are inside and which magazine (like Voice Coil - go to
http://audioxpress.com/page/Voice-Coil-Magazine.html)
have tested one of the 900 series.
Here the contact datas
Elodie Deconinck (Alexa Fay)
Sales administration
PHL AUDIO SAS
461, rue des Chênes - Z.A.
77590 CHARTRETTES
France
T : + 33 (0)1 64 81 29 80
F : + 33 (0)1 60 69 10 28
Thank you very much.
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Have you heard this model ? - what about the sonic character ?
Thank you for advices.
Three years ago PHL audio releases this series.
Therefore again the question:
Which commercial available studio monitors are equipped with this transducers from PHL Audio ?
BTW: There is a website in new outline:
PHL Audio
older versions arround nearly 20 years are to find here:
Wayback Machine
on the datasheet of model "900" there is no frequency response - go to
http://www.phlaudio.com/products/?n...oducts&cHash=e3ae3f63e6f56ab2d0d4908f7cc5ff75
But under
Speaker PHL 900, 8 ohm, 5 inch
there is an impedance plot.
http://www.phlaudio.com/products/?n...oducts&cHash=e3ae3f63e6f56ab2d0d4908f7cc5ff75
But under
Speaker PHL 900, 8 ohm, 5 inch
there is an impedance plot.