by geolemon » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:13 pm
Yes, that's the TangBand 3" I used.
And I DID do a line-array in my Pathfinder... an extension of this old project I did in an old Nissan pickup I used to own:
http://www.betteraudio.com/geolemon/Lin ... source.htm
With my Pathfinder, I'm using those same 5.25" drivers for midbass (since I still owned them), and instead wanted to try a line array of "fullrange" drivers, since the winder the range of frequencies I can accurately get phase-aligned, the greater the benefit.
So, I have two midbass drivers (which unfortunately end up a bit too far back on the door - right at the leading edge of my seat), and three of the TB W3-871's - both sets of drivers on phase-aligned arcs such as I did with the old Nissan Mini project I had experimented with here.
I wanted to use small drivers, because I could get a line of three of them farther forward on my door...
If you look at my very last picture on that page, where my two Peerless tweeters are on that door panel, is about where I have my three 3" fullrange speakers in a line, and my 5.25"s are about where those ones are, but lower down to the bottom of the door.
I'm currently running the W3-871's without any tweeters whatsoever, if that says anything about their abilities, and clarity.
They simply blew all the 2" speakers I tested right out of the water.
But of the 2" speakers, the Aura ones were the best of those, that size - just a bit tricky to mount, with their tiny little flanges... you'll be using sealant, like I did (rope caulk to the rescue!
).
(just as an FYI - sub from 70hz down, 5.25's from 80hz to 250hz, 3's from 250hz all the way up to 18Khz! If I get time, I may be adding tweeters in my factory locations, just to catch from 10khz up, see if I can crisp it up a little. Oh yeah, it's all on a 2 channel amp via a custom passive Xover - and I'd have to add another component to add tweets, hence my hesitation...
)
Yes, that's the TangBand 3" I used.
And I DID do a line-array in my Pathfinder... an extension of this old project I did in an old Nissan pickup I used to own:
[url]http://www.betteraudio.com/geolemon/Linesource/Linesource.htm[/url]
With my Pathfinder, I'm using those same 5.25" drivers for midbass (since I still owned them), and instead wanted to try a line array of "fullrange" drivers, since the winder the range of frequencies I can accurately get phase-aligned, the greater the benefit. :cool:
So, I have two midbass drivers (which unfortunately end up a bit too far back on the door - right at the leading edge of my seat), and three of the TB W3-871's - both sets of drivers on phase-aligned arcs such as I did with the old Nissan Mini project I had experimented with here.
I wanted to use small drivers, because I could get a line of three of them farther forward on my door...
If you look at my very last picture on that page, where my two Peerless tweeters are on that door panel, is about where I have my three 3" fullrange speakers in a line, and my 5.25"s are about where those ones are, but lower down to the bottom of the door.
I'm currently running the W3-871's without any tweeters whatsoever, if that says anything about their abilities, and clarity.
They simply blew all the 2" speakers I tested right out of the water.
But of the 2" speakers, the Aura ones were the best of those, that size - just a bit tricky to mount, with their tiny little flanges... you'll be using sealant, like I did (rope caulk to the rescue! :p ).
(just as an FYI - sub from 70hz down, 5.25's from 80hz to 250hz, 3's from 250hz all the way up to 18Khz! If I get time, I may be adding tweeters in my factory locations, just to catch from 10khz up, see if I can crisp it up a little. Oh yeah, it's all on a 2 channel amp via a custom passive Xover - and I'd have to add another component to add tweets, hence my hesitation... :( )