High Efficiency Speaker Asylum

Need speakers that can rock with just one watt? You found da place.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Re: What does it do to the sound?

Posted by Paul Butterfield on April 29, 2002 at 07:15:52:
In my humble experience, the advantages of the bugscreen removal result in significant reductions in turbulence in the throat area â€” which translate into in less distortion and better transient response.
We (the Central Florida Audio Society) once had a blind A/B comparison of identical TD 2001 drivers, one with, and one without the bug screen. What was significant, was not that all of the members preferred the sound of the driver without the bug screen, but, in under 30 seconds, everyone that participated in the AB listen was able to tell which driver had no bug screen.
The disadvantage to this modification is that the bugscreen is there for a reason: To keep bugs, dirt and ferrous materials from migrating to the voice coil gap. This however, is more of a concern in a pro audio where the TD 2001 is used in commercial sound reinforcement. I have found that nylon pantyhose stretched at the junction of horn throat and mouth makes an effective seasonal bug (kid and pet) screen for compression drivers that have had their bug screens removed, as well as traditional drivers (with an exposed gaps area) that have a phase plug or no dust cap.
Paul B