midbass for horns

[dreamer 10+ year member]

I recently won an auction for a pair of ID cd2 comp horns for $331 after shipping. I'm pumped and hope they are not busted and actually arrive! But, in the meantime I'm looking for midbass drivers that will hopefully attempt to keep up with the horns.

I plan on getting 4 midbass drivers mounted in kicks, or kicks doors. I know that is an imaging nightmare, but I look foward to the install challenge.

I was looking at the CDT 6.5" midbass/midrange driver with "controlled" dispersion and it looks really intriguing. It looks like it might fit the bill for me. The rave reviews say that it's flat, neutral and has excellent imaging -- everything I'm looking for. Anyone have any experience with the CDT 6.5" midbass - 2kHz capabilities? $400 bucks for 2 pair

I also looked into scanspeak, vifa and morel drivers. The problem is that a lot of the drivers that look good to me are weird ohms, like 5.7 or 5.5 or something like that.

for these drivers, you can find info and specs on them at http://www.madisound.com in their catalog and pdf files within the catalog

I like the vifa:

PL18WO09-04 a 7" driver. if this is truly 4ohms, this is nice and has a good price tag too at $65 bucks each. $260 for 4 of them -- it's priced right

scanspeak:

18W/5535A a 7" driver. these are 4 ohms, but more pricey than all the other things I'm looking at. They also seem to have killer midbass response and have the longest excursion that I know of, 5.5 mm but at a price of around $120 each, the total is $480

morel:

H6.1 is a 6" driver. Seem to have very good midbass response and priced decently at $80 each and have decent sensitivity of 91 dB 1w/m. The only thing I really don't like about these is that they have a dc resistance of 5.6 ohms and xmax of 3.5mm.

Could you guys steer me in the right direction? I'm having such trouble deciding and I just don't know enough about what really matters in midbass/midrange to make a solid decision. I thought that I could use 6 in total, 3 a side of the H6.1 morels to get roughly a 2 ohm load, but, talk about install problems and imaging hell... I'd have to mount a pair in the doors and 2 pairs in the kicks... yikes... my frontstage would look cool though!

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[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

i would try 1 set first..i used an idq 8 with awesome results the vifa is a good driver as well..just remember this..the simplier the better less problems in imaging......... i wouldnt put a cdt driver to them maybe a morel and the seas drivers look pretty sweet

 

[dreamer 10+ year member]

Originally posted by audiolife ......... i wouldnt put a cdt driver to them maybe a morel and the seas drivers look pretty sweet

Uhh, which seas driver? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

and, why wouldn't you put a cdt to them?

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

hmm its sorta hard to put a finger on it..have you heard your type of horn? have you heard the cdt? now mix it

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

You pay for scan-speak, but what you get is top of the line...

The vifa option has been noted to have an awesome natural rolloff...

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

where do you get scan speak? gimme some info i hear about them from time to time...also what is the deal with the new line from japan ampman audio is bringing in? they just a cdt knockoff or the actuall makers or are they somethin else?

 

[dreamer 10+ year member]

Originally posted by jlaine You pay for scan-speak, but what you get is top of the line...

 

The vifa option has been noted to have an awesome natural rolloff...

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by an awesome natural rolloff. Does that mean as the frequency response gets lower and lower, it keeps up with the rest of the spectrum?

and, the scan speak driver, the one that is meant for autosound that I picked out is a nice driver?

thanks for all the help, guys.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

i owed 2 sets of vifa speakers as midbasses for a horn set ... very nice.. came in the car and it took second in the world

 

[dreamer 10+ year member]

Originally posted by audiolife i owed 2 sets of vifa speakers as midbasses for a horn set ... very nice.. came in the car and it took second in the world

would you happen to know which particular model? =)

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

off hand no lol ..yellow cone with a bullet dust cap

 

[dreamer 10+ year member]

do you know if they are 4ohms or 8 ohms each?

I see one called MG18WK09-08(04) and it's a fiberglass cone woofer with a kind of shiny domed dust cap, not really pointy shaped like phase plugs usually are. Are these 7" speakers?

anyway, if this is the case, they're only like 52 bucks each! doesn't make it bad though, all the better...

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

actually if memory serves was 6 ohms i do believe now if im wrong its an 8 that measured 6