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In Reply to: How to get the midrange right ? posted by beppe61 on March 27, 2015 at 02:29:23:
A driver that does the following is key from my experience:
Covers the range from 200-300Hz to at least 5Khz and maintain uniform or controlled dispersion.
Does not have any significant resonances or breakup modes outside that range, which usually limits the materials chosen.
In addition:
No crossovers in that region or they must be shallow slope (i.e. 1st order).
You want to hear amazing midrange? Listen to a full range electrostat or an Apogee ribbon speaker. Listen to a speaker with a wide range (but not full range) driver, like reference 3a or Horning hybrid. Most horns have too narrow bandwidths for their drivers and integration is difficult to perfect.
The ONLY full range drivers I have heard that can really deliver a balanced sound are full-range electrostats.
I did have an exception to these heuristics once: I had a pair of Genesis VI speakers that had a 6 1/2 inch aluminum cone and a 4 inch Titanium/Silicon Carbide dome to cover the mid-range (from 100 to about 7Khz). That made extremely good sounding mids and I think this dome was the main reason...a superb driver.
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Follow Ups
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - morricab 14:45:17 03/28/15 (5)
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - beppe61 02:09:54 03/29/15 (4)
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - morricab 07:36:17 03/30/15 (3)
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - beppe61 09:21:27 03/30/15 (2)
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - morricab 16:08:49 03/30/15 (1)
- RE: How to get the midrange right ? - beppe61 23:30:53 03/30/15 (0)
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