15" Woofer suggestions for End-Game 3-Way?

[piotr z]

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Seems like a situation where you better hope room gain makes up for the lack of efficiency

And that's peak. Music level will be 20dB lower without compression. Room gain is not going to help.

 

[Tesla Audio]

If you use the SB sealed, use the SB3NRX75-6 as it's best fitted. But today i would use neighter of them and go for the Faital like said before. I use the SS driver to 300Hz now without i feel that i crosso to high. I even used it for test to about 900Hz (with a CD in a horn and a higher order dsp crossover) and even there it was still good. How high you can use it depends a lot on the filters you use, and for a 1st or second order i would not go above 500Hz with this driver. Idem with the SB34.

The Faital has a wider flat frequency range and a higer clean volume than both the SB and the SS. But it's not fit for sealed maybe. If sealed is needed, then depending on what you want to do with it both the SS and the SB, both have their strengths and weaknesses. The SS allows a smaller cabinet without the need for a lot of eq, while the SB3NRX75-6 goes clean louder, but need a bigger cabinet. Sound quality wise they are very close to each other.

Hi waxx,
Which Faital model you talking about?

 

[Kwesi]

And that's peak. Music level will be 20dB lower without compression. Room gain is not going to help.

I have a pair of 26W8534G00 with bucking magnets in 60l CB per speaker here running, EQed with DSP to -6dB@30Hz Q=0,7.
They have classic "Hifi Woofer" parameters, and for this they do their job very well. Of course they are no "long-strokers". An advantage is the high efficiency of these drivers, they need not much power. Low mass, stiff cone, very low mechanical losses, demodulation ring. And they play very clean and clear until near xlim without hearable distortion and observable offset jumping/pumping - from the bass quality I perceive them as quite perfect within their stroke/SPL limits. I feel no need for "better" woofers, until I might want more headroom from the same package size with more air displacement capability.

Value of theses drivers unfortuately has become much worse, I got them for around 100.-€ per piece some years ago. Today prices I can find are about 170-180€, don't know If I would buy them again for this amount today. There are other nice options out there when you would pay just a bit more.

 

[waxx]

Hi waxx,
Which Faital model you talking about?

10FE330 or 12FE330 depending on how loud you want it. I would use the 10FE330 for my home setup.

 

[diyiggy]

Yeah Scan Speak became too much expensive, go Faital or the few best of SB Acoustic that have a better Q/P than SS.