Are Seas Reference comps really that good?

[georobu 10+ year member]

I run the seas lotus reference upfront and the boston z6 for rear fill. The bostons sound like Bose compared to seas, it's like it's missing a chunk of midrange inbetween tweeter and woofer. I blame it mostly on the tweeter, I don't like it at all. The woofer is amazing, with a decent phase plug I would say they are very comparable with the seas. I ran both the boston and seas active so I can't tell you how it's going to sound with the suplied xover, probably a lot different.

Power wise, I ran 125Watts to the boston woofer and made it bottom out really easy with 80hz high pass. The Seas reference woofer is running over 250 watts same xover point and I can hardly make it bottom out, the coil overheats with continuous play however. I'd say 200 watts daily no problem though. I never ran the boston woofers with more power to test coil heat resistence but the suspension bottoms out before that.

With all this in mind, ran active the Seas are in a higher class, with the Boston woofer giving it a good run.

Instalation wise the Bostons have better options than any speaker set I've tried, it's virtually unbeatable for a clean install.

 

[3.5Max6spd 10+ year member]

wow this is easy..Seas Reference

The other two sets just dont tickle my pickle, nothing well rounded about them at all.

For another set to consider that will give you that type of performance and midrange clarity check Rainbow Profi Phase plugs.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

I would have no problems running any of those 3 mentioned above

Seas is my first choice

 

[slain93gsr 10+ year member]

the seas mids are awesome very natural sounding. matched with am amazing tweet.

the z6 set up didnt do it for me. the mids were nice but something was lacking in the tweeter department.

both set ups used active xovers