Hello everyone,
For a long time I've been planing to build my own speakers and recently I've purchased a pair of Seas Excel W18EX001 woofers at a good price.
Now, I'm looking for a pair of tweeters.
I live in Europe and my budget for the tweeters is in the range of 200-250 euros. I've found a pair of Seas Excel T29AF001 at a very good discount, matching my budget. As I found a model of a DIY speaker kit for this comination of woofer and tweeter, I was convinced that for such a good discount this is the right combination for me.
However, recently I've found a long dicussion on diyAudio from 2018 on a similar topic to this one, which made me change my mind. The main conclusions I've made are:
I'm a complete newbie in audio and there are many things I don't understand. However, I'm a physicist and from my general knowledge of spectra the SB26ADC has a much better frequency reponse. The only upside of the T29AF001 is the lower resonance frequency, howver I do not see any related impovemets on the impedance variations in this region.
This said I'm thinking about choosing the SB26ADC tweeter for my project. Still, I do hesitate as the price difference between the tweeters is huge (x4) and there may be other things to take in consideration that I do not know.
If would kindly ask for an optinion, a sugestion or an advice about this problem. It would be much appreciated.
P.S. I plan to build a pair of 2-way compact ported floorstanders with an internal volume of about 30L, made from 25mm (1inch) MDF. The port design and the exact dimensions are not yet calculated. I plan to build a passive crossover with Standard Jantzen Audio or Mundorf EVO components. The exact crossover will be designed after I will install the drivers in the cabinets and measure their frequency reponse. From what I've read on other discussions, I expect to be able to build the crossover with a 2nd order HP filter for tweeter and 4th order LP filter for woofer.
For a long time I've been planing to build my own speakers and recently I've purchased a pair of Seas Excel W18EX001 woofers at a good price.
Now, I'm looking for a pair of tweeters.
I live in Europe and my budget for the tweeters is in the range of 200-250 euros. I've found a pair of Seas Excel T29AF001 at a very good discount, matching my budget. As I found a model of a DIY speaker kit for this comination of woofer and tweeter, I was convinced that for such a good discount this is the right combination for me.
However, recently I've found a long dicussion on diyAudio from 2018 on a similar topic to this one, which made me change my mind. The main conclusions I've made are:
- for a 2-way sistem with such a woofer I have to choose a tweeter suitable for a very low crossover in the region 1.5kHz (or may be lower).
- a more expensive tweeter (like the T29AF001 in my case) doesn't mean better, for this specific case (as many comments suggested).
- a waveguide (e.g. Monacor WG300) attached to a tweeter would somehow make it easier to apply a low frequency crossover.
- one of the most recommended tweeters for a low requency crossover was SB Acoustics SB26ADC (which fits into my budget). Other models were SB26CDC and SB29RD.
I'm a complete newbie in audio and there are many things I don't understand. However, I'm a physicist and from my general knowledge of spectra the SB26ADC has a much better frequency reponse. The only upside of the T29AF001 is the lower resonance frequency, howver I do not see any related impovemets on the impedance variations in this region.
This said I'm thinking about choosing the SB26ADC tweeter for my project. Still, I do hesitate as the price difference between the tweeters is huge (x4) and there may be other things to take in consideration that I do not know.
If would kindly ask for an optinion, a sugestion or an advice about this problem. It would be much appreciated.
P.S. I plan to build a pair of 2-way compact ported floorstanders with an internal volume of about 30L, made from 25mm (1inch) MDF. The port design and the exact dimensions are not yet calculated. I plan to build a passive crossover with Standard Jantzen Audio or Mundorf EVO components. The exact crossover will be designed after I will install the drivers in the cabinets and measure their frequency reponse. From what I've read on other discussions, I expect to be able to build the crossover with a 2nd order HP filter for tweeter and 4th order LP filter for woofer.