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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8653115" data-attributes="member: 607015">There you go, that&#039;s a great start to narrowing down your drivers. You&#039;re not after a midrange, you&#039;re after a midbass. Sensitivity should not be very high on your list of criteria because you will be after a driver that does very well down low. Typically, those are not the most sensitive drivers. But because you also expect this driver to meet up with a tweeter at around 1kHz-3kHz, you also want a driver that stays clean while it&#039;s stroking like a mofo so it&#039;s imperative that you stick with low distortion motors with rings and sleeves. Then choose your type of character - plastic cone, paper cone, metal cone, composite cone. There&#039;s no escaping the root character of the driver&#039;s build, be it from the motor, cone, or suspension, but with low distortion motors and quality suspensions, you&#039;re left with mostly the cone material and shape as a signature. Some things can be EQ&#039;d out, some things cannot. Polar response, for instance. Do things right and you will be left with the things you like about the cone material you choose. I prefer metals and composites, myself. Plastics tend to smooth things over too much for my liking.Dude, if you want a frugal approach that really delivers, try the aluminum or ceramic drivers from SB Acoustics. They have a really clean, very well behaved character and they stroke like crazy. Very dynamic and cleeeeeean drivers for not much money at all. Right on par with the Revelator stuff. Just address the cone resonance on top (outside the passband) and you&#039;re good. Cross low enough and you won&#039;t even need to address it. The rest is crossing and EQing to your tastes. I attached an image of the 5&quot; ceramic doing some work. I ran it that way for three days for the break-in period.Otherwise, my next suggestion would be the Dayton Esoteric. Just incredible drivers and they handle a tad more power than the SBA.Both of those drivers are hard to beat from many perspectives and they have lots of copper in the motors.[ATTACH]325[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8653115, member: 607015"] There you go, that's a great start to narrowing down your drivers. You're not after a midrange, you're after a midbass. Sensitivity should not be very high on your list of criteria because you will be after a driver that does very well down low. Typically, those are not the most sensitive drivers. But because you also expect this driver to meet up with a tweeter at around 1kHz-3kHz, you also want a driver that stays clean while it's stroking like a mofo so it's imperative that you stick with low distortion motors with rings and sleeves. Then choose your type of character - plastic cone, paper cone, metal cone, composite cone. There's no escaping the root character of the driver's build, be it from the motor, cone, or suspension, but with low distortion motors and quality suspensions, you're left with mostly the cone material and shape as a signature. Some things can be EQ'd out, some things cannot. Polar response, for instance. Do things right and you will be left with the things you like about the cone material you choose. I prefer metals and composites, myself. Plastics tend to smooth things over too much for my liking. Dude, if you want a frugal approach that really delivers, try the aluminum or ceramic drivers from SB Acoustics. They have a really clean, very well behaved character and they stroke like crazy. Very dynamic and cleeeeeean drivers for not much money at all. Right on par with the Revelator stuff. Just address the cone resonance on top (outside the passband) and you're good. Cross low enough and you won't even need to address it. The rest is crossing and EQing to your tastes. I attached an image of the 5" ceramic doing some work. I ran it that way for three days for the break-in period. Otherwise, my next suggestion would be the Dayton Esoteric. Just incredible drivers and they handle a tad more power than the SBA. Both of those drivers are hard to beat from many perspectives and they have lots of copper in the motors. [ATTACH]325._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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