Those are some nice driver you have on your hands there, especially the woofers.
They look like they are excel line magnesium cones with black phase plugs and cones. Nothing wrong with the tweeters mind you. In fact a lot of SEAS prestige line tweeters perform better than some of the excel ones.
I echo what Chris has said though. Basically a ZA5.5tt or a ZA5.5t.
Zaph|Audio - ZA5 Speaker Designs with ZA14W08 woofer and Vifa DQ25SC16-04 tweeter
That would be a good place to start for inspiration about what you could do with your drivers.
I guess what you build depends entirely on how many of them you want to use in a single speaker.
The magnet size on the W12s bodes well for a useful Qts. What kind of cabinet were these originally in inside the TV?
They look like they are excel line magnesium cones with black phase plugs and cones. Nothing wrong with the tweeters mind you. In fact a lot of SEAS prestige line tweeters perform better than some of the excel ones.
I echo what Chris has said though. Basically a ZA5.5tt or a ZA5.5t.
Zaph|Audio - ZA5 Speaker Designs with ZA14W08 woofer and Vifa DQ25SC16-04 tweeter
That would be a good place to start for inspiration about what you could do with your drivers.
I guess what you build depends entirely on how many of them you want to use in a single speaker.
The magnet size on the W12s bodes well for a useful Qts. What kind of cabinet were these originally in inside the TV?
Thanks for interesting link, especially since ZD5 has been my speaker of choice in the last decade
I’m not sure though if I can simply drop my drivers into MMTMM design for example, but it would be nice if they’d fit
My woofers were inside a large cabinet with 65” screen, difficult to tell how much of it was used for sound though.
I’m not sure though if I can simply drop my drivers into MMTMM design for example, but it would be nice if they’d fitMy woofers were inside a large cabinet with 65” screen, difficult to tell how much of it was used for sound though.
Don't suppose you managed to salvage the crossover boards as well?
I’m pretty sure it was an active xo inside, so no use
Thanks for interesting link, especially since ZD5 has been my speaker of choice in the last decade
My woofers were inside a large cabinet with 65” screen, difficult to tell how much of it was used for sound though.
Oh I wasn't recommending you build the ZA5 with the seas drivers just that you could build something like them.
Was the cabinet sealed or did it have vents/holes in?
Difficult to say, I don’t remember any holes so probably sealed.
Zaph has his own drivers now? Seas manufactured?
I am revisiting this idea and looking into building something like this:
Eekels' Mini
With somewhat simpler crossover for a start.
Eekels' Mini
With somewhat simpler crossover for a start.
I just discovered this wonderful speaker design software: Software , looks like it’s a blast! It can even trace SPL from graphic image, so my problem with missing .zma and .frd files is solved instantly! SEAS confirmed that my midbass is actually excel W12CY001, and I found tweeter datasheet as well at lautsprecher.de so I am good to go
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