Does anyone have a recommendation on a high quality 8" woofer for an Ewave?
I've built a few ewaves thus far, the most recent being a pair of NLA's. I'd like to put something together that gets the acoustic centers as close together as possible, a little higher up and with improved efficiency(over the NLA anyway).
I'm thinking a 90db (or so) 8" ewave with the 8 or 6" waveguide might be the ticket. I'd like something that has reasonably good bass without a sub(I don't expect 2235 bass!
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Any suggestions?
not quite 8", more like 9", but I remember Zilch having a very soft spot for the Smaller Advent woofer, to the point where he joked about buying every one that came up on fleabay.....my stock smaller advents dig very, very low in a relatively compact package.....I thought somewhere he had a plan for an Ewave based off of some SA's...
another used 8" driver to check out would be an 8" AR woofer. my AR18's have pretty satisfying bass for such a small package, have a nice natural upper roll off ~ 2khz (stock crossover is a 6uf cap)....I've seen some NOS ones from the TSW series for cheap on fleabay, too....IIRC the free air resonance on these are rediculously low for an 8" woof, something like 25hz. I KNOW Zilch did a lot of development of mini Ewaves based off the AR4x...
anecdotally, I have some home build speakers I did in college 15 years ago, and the woofer was a 6 1/2" buyout from parts express. they are AR woofers, and the part number crosses to the M4 (IIRC) holographic series, which used a ~3000-3500hz crossover. doing the calcs based on the published T/S params at parts express, in the cabinets I built (ported, size is about the same footprint as my smaller advents, but 4-5" shorter) the speakers should have a -3db cutoff in the 35-40 hz range, and A/B'ing them with my smaller advents, I don't doubt it, they go almost as low as the advents. finding the 8" version (I think it was the M2?) probably would get you down in the low 30's...
New, I'd look at the EPI replacement woofers offered by humanspeakers...EPI's are known for their good bass response, and smooth roll off, as the EPI 100's use basically the same crossover as my AR18's--woofer runs full range, tweet has a single cap for a high pass....
