Recent readings on phase issues in crossovers lead me to full range drivers. Every full range driver I heard sounds pretty crap, no bottom end, cuppa mid, no top etc. Obviously I have not heard every full range driver but came across these.
The curve looks not too bad as does the efficiency. So driven by the desire to hear something without a crossover I decided to knock something up using these drivers.
I made the cabinet to large on purpose the idea being to reduce the volume in steps until I found a good point. However as soon as I plugged them in I was very pleasantly surprised. Very. They sound completely ‘normal’ they have bass, transparent mids and top end. I really was scratching my head. I have now been using them for a couple of months and cannot fault them. The transparency and imaging is incredible, they have been favourably compared to electrostatics but with grunt. I borrowed so AN Type E’s to compare and to my mind there was no comparison. To be fair I have never really liked Type E’s, just not my sound I guess. I found them bloats, fuzzy and slow in comparison ( and yes I do know how to set up Type Es)
I am surprised that they work so well with an obvious box volume deviation and am loathed to play with them but in the interest of science I will shortly try inserting an internal panel to reduce the volume.
Chuffed. £400 in total, the E’s I borrowed (base model) are £3.5k not incl stands.
In absolute terms they are a tad dry sounding but I forgive them this as they are so much fun.
