BOFU with and w/o whizzer cone ?

even the original BOFU was nothing to write home about other than being cool for around $15 - here's one NOS in a Druid type pipe vs a Fostex FE206EN (both ~on-axis) At least the old BOFU didn't have a 2K6 spike like my 206 :^)

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"nothing to write home about", posted on July 25, 2012 at 15:52:05
badman Reviewer Posts: 8801 Location: Tustin, CA (Orange County) Joined: March 10, 2001	Certainly not your taste- but it's a milder sounding fullranger that can actually do some real bass- that's a nice combo, you get some of the fullrange clarity/"speed", but without the limited output/bass, or the shrieking high end. Bass is supposed to sound big. 6.5" is not a woofer size.

no but.............., posted on July 15, 2012 at 04:40:47

Norman Bates
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I played with it for a while.

Using a 10 band eq on a stock driver, I had a squeek of boost at 8khz and a little at 16khz. I also had cotton batten between whizzer and cone down by the voice coil.

I trimmed maybe 1/8 off the whizzer (a little) and I needed a bit more boost at 8khz and more at 16khz, but the honkyness improved a little also. It was better overall.

I then cut off all the whizzer, and the honky ness was gone !!!! But I couldn't eq in the high end. 8khz and 16khz sliders made no difference in the high end.

If I measured it after cutting the whizzer off, I'm sure that I'd have seen more of a climb from 1khz to 5khz then it roll off very steeply past that. Whizzers usually put out the really high stuff (like 5khz plus) and they also act out of phase for an octave, maybe 2 under it. By acting out of phase, it lowers the freq response of the driver there compared to the same driver without a whizzer.

This guy cut the whizzer off his coral flat 8 and made measurements. Removing his whizzer also narrowed his dispersion from 2khz to 4khz also.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/full-range/185012-whizzer-intelligibility.html

Interesting read.

Norman

RE: BOFU with and w/o whizzer cone ?, posted on July 14, 2012 at 17:23:07

Don M
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You may find the article linked below on the BOFU interesting.

Jeff Poth has written some excellent articles for the DIY community.

Enjoy the music

Oooh I hope so, posted on July 14, 2012 at 16:41:48
badman Reviewer Posts: 8801 Location: Tustin, CA (Orange County) Joined: March 10, 2001	Would love to see it since I use a supertweeter with my BOFUs anyway. Bass is supposed to sound big. 6.5" is not a woofer size.

RE: Measurements, posted on July 14, 2012 at 17:06:17
Don M Audiophile Posts: 193 Joined: July 17, 2000	Did you take any measurements of your BOFU tl project after you added the tweeter?

No , posted on July 16, 2012 at 10:51:12
badman Reviewer Posts: 8801 Location: Tustin, CA (Orange County) Joined: March 10, 2001	Though I should have. In my case it's a pretty straightforward design. Bass is supposed to sound big. 6.5" is not a woofer size.

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