Thiele & Small Parameters Thiele & Small Parameters (before Break-in) Ported Box=15 liters • Fb=50Hz • Q=0.61 (Manufacturer’s T/S) Ported Box=15 liters • Fb=50Hz • Q=0.58 (DATS T/S) Recommended Ported… Read more >
michael chua
November 2, 2023
Drivers Thiele & Small, HIFI DRIVERS6-1/2", Dayton, GF180, Glass Fiber, Thiele&Small, Woofer
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Harrier Dayton MB1025-8 with LaVoce DF10.172K + XT1086 Passive Crossover In this post, I’ll show how the Harrier can be designed as a passive speaker. This is what the majority… Read more >
michael chua
September 22, 2023
Drivers Evaluation, PRO DRIVERSDayton, DF10.172K, LaVoce, MB1025, XT1086
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Harrier Dayton MB1025-8 with LaVoce DF10.172K + XT1086 Active Bi-amped The Harrier is a 2-way speaker based on the 10″ Dayton MB1025-8 Midbass driver. In this design, I mated her… Read more >
michael chua
September 17, 2023
Drivers Evaluation, PRO DRIVERSDayton, DF10.172K, LaVoce, MB1025, XT1086
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Dayton MB1025-8 Review Dayton MB1025-8 Frequency Response (manufacturer) The plot above is from Dayton’s datasheet. It shows the MB1025-8 is good to about 2.5kHz, beyond which she suffers from cone… Read more >
michael chua
September 5, 2023
PRO DRIVERS10", Dayton, MB1025
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Dayton PC83-8 Review Dayton PC83-8 Frequency Response (manufacturer) The plot above is from Dayton. It shows a flat response from 1kHz~10kHz. After that, the cone breakup extends the super highs… Read more >
michael chua
August 31, 2023
HIFI DRIVERSDayton, Evolve, Full Range, PC83
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Dayton PC83-8 Thiele/Small This Dayton PC83-8 is another Full-Range driver that I’m considering for the Evolve clone. At $12.98 each, she cost slightly more than the HiVi C3N-III ($9.49 each)…. Read more >
michael chua
August 30, 2023
Drivers Thiele & Small, HIFI DRIVERSDayton, Evolve, Full Range, PC83
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Chickadee Crossover Revision Fig 1 – Dayton CX120 Woofer Low Pass and Tweeter High Pass • Baffle Width = 8″ The first response (Fig 1) has been bugging me. The… Read more >
michael chua
June 30, 2023
HIFI DRIVERS, ProjectsCoaxial, CX120, Dayton
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Chickadee Fig 1 – Dayton CX120 RAW Frq Response In my previous post, the Dayton CX120 RAW responses of the woofer and the tweeter are in Fig 1. There are… Read more >
michael chua
June 27, 2023
HIFI DRIVERS, ProjectsCoaxial, CX120, Dayton
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Dayton CX120-8 Review For this review, I loaded the CX120 into a 7 liters sealed box. This is the same box that I used for the Swallow-BC. My intention is… Read more >
michael chua
June 25, 2023
Drivers Thiele & Small, HIFI DRIVERSCoaxial, CX120, Dayton
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Dayton DA215-8 Continuing my evaluation of 8″ woofers with the Swallow-BC is a Dayton DA215-8. This woofer has a beefy magnet like the Thruster THW835 but the cone is aluminum… Read more >
michael chua
June 17, 2023
Drivers Evaluation, HIFI DRIVERSDA215, Dayton, Swallow-BC
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