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<blockquote data-quote="geolemon" data-source="post: 1599323" data-attributes="member: 547749">Those are very similar to the 3&quot; fullrange TB drivers that I bought for my line array project, actually.I had started by trying to find 2&quot; fullrange drivers, and I auditioned a bunch (Aura, HiVi, TangBand, and a couple more), but none of them really sounded accurate enough.I auditioned some 3&quot; guys as well, and the TangBand ones that I bought were really quite decent:<a href="http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?cart_id=7561169.21&amp;amp;pid=1757" target="_blank">http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?cart_id=7561169.21&amp;amp;pid=1757</a>I needed things small, because my line array is an in-car line array (OK, it&#039;s more accurate in my application to say a &quot;phase aligned array&quot; //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif).I&#039;m currently running mine without tweeters, and the response is liveable.&nbsp; They are good up to 18K, and I&#039;d say it sounds comparable to your average decent &quot;soft dome tweeter&quot; component set in that respect.I&#039;m planning to augment mine with a 6dB/octave slope crossover way up in the 10Khz or 12Khz territory, with my Focal TN52&#039;s in my factory A-pillar locations eventually, but it&#039;s quite livable without.&nbsp; Just would add a hair more detail and sharpness that I prefer (I&#039;m admittedly a &quot;hard dome&quot; guy).As far as the low end goes - the answer is sort of a function of physics:The lower you ask a speaker to play, the more displacement it must produce to yield the same dB output.Naturally, a speaker normally accomplishes this by increasing it&#039;s excursion level as frequencies decrease (and it&#039;s easy to understand how - same amount of power from your amp at all frequencies, but the cycles are slower at lower frequencies-&nbsp; so roughly speaking, the duration of the &quot;push&quot; in one direction&nbsp; lasts longer, so the speaker is driven out farther in each direction before the signal reverses it&#039;s direction for the other half of the waveform).These are little speakers - you are going to reach your limits.I&#039;ve got mine running down to 250hz (naturally the response chart shows them able to extend down to 200hz), and they show no signs of strain... and I&#039;ve got them on a lot of power... three of them on over 100w on each side.I&#039;m running a separate midbass driver to go from 75hz to 250hz.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="geolemon, post: 1599323, member: 547749"] Those are very similar to the 3" fullrange TB drivers that I bought for my line array project, actually. I had started by trying to find 2" fullrange drivers, and I auditioned a bunch (Aura, HiVi, TangBand, and a couple more), but none of them really sounded accurate enough. I auditioned some 3" guys as well, and the TangBand ones that I bought were really quite decent: [URL="http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?cart_id=7561169.21&pid=1757"]http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?cart_id=7561169.21&pid=1757[/URL] I needed things small, because my line array is an in-car line array (OK, it's more accurate in my application to say a "phase aligned array" [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG]). I'm currently running mine without tweeters, and the response is liveable. They are good up to 18K, and I'd say it sounds comparable to your average decent "soft dome tweeter" component set in that respect. I'm planning to augment mine with a 6dB/octave slope crossover way up in the 10Khz or 12Khz territory, with my Focal TN52's in my factory A-pillar locations eventually, but it's quite livable without. Just would add a hair more detail and sharpness that I prefer (I'm admittedly a "hard dome" guy). As far as the low end goes - the answer is sort of a function of physics: The lower you ask a speaker to play, the more displacement it must produce to yield the same dB output. Naturally, a speaker normally accomplishes this by increasing it's excursion level as frequencies decrease (and it's easy to understand how - same amount of power from your amp at all frequencies, but the cycles are slower at lower frequencies- so roughly speaking, the duration of the "push" in one direction lasts longer, so the speaker is driven out farther in each direction before the signal reverses it's direction for the other half of the waveform). These are little speakers - you are going to reach your limits. I've got mine running down to 250hz (naturally the response chart shows them able to extend down to 200hz), and they show no signs of strain... and I've got them on a lot of power... three of them on over 100w on each side. I'm running a separate midbass driver to go from 75hz to 250hz. [/QUOTE]

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