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Goldwood GW-204/8S 4" Shielded Poly Woofer 8 Ohm
i bought this and i was disappointed with the perfromance of this woofer, it woukd work better as a mid not a woofer.
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Dayton RS100-4 4" Reference Full-Range Driver 4 Ohm
For fun, we built two mini line arrays with four of these per side. No crossover, no protection circuit, nothin' fancy; just slender light-weight boxes with four of these each wired at 8 ohms. The sonic results are astounding!
We tried placing them together, slightly canted outward at various angles. We also placed them as far as 20 feet apart in the large warehouse space of our shop. We tested them with several amplifiers, from a little T-amp to a QSC GX3 with 300 watts per side. No matter how you place them, off-axis response is superb! Stereo imaging is beautiful no matter where you stand.
Off course, these are not stand-alone speakers for "bass-freaks." You'd need to add a sub for that. But as they are, the bass response is impressive for music listening at reasonable volumes.
There is a bit of high-end "splatter" or "smearing" at high volumes. It is most noticeable during string-instrument passages of orchestral pieces. We attributed that to irregular "spikey" freq-response above 5kHz or so. Inserting a 1/3 octave EQ helped us find and subdue those artifacts.
With a little more careful design and some other components, (protection, pro-connections, cosmetic stuff) these would make a wonderful mini line array for speech, acoustic instruments and vocals, maybe even some quiet Jazz guitar!
You can get 4 of 'em for less than $100 bucks and discover for yourself what they can do.
One thing: I wish Dayton or PE would supply response graphs for these. Other Dayton drivers have the graphs on this site. These should be no exception. That simple expedient would have saved us some tweaking and made the design / build process much easier.
Other than that, no complaints. These are solid little drivers. I love the cast frames and heavy six-hole flange. They mount securely and look great. When aligned vertically in gangs of four, they eat Bose Pan-arrays for lunch at 1/5th the cost.
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Dayton RS100S-8 4" Reference Shielded Full-Range Driver
Now, I knew these things were small. Rationally, I knew that their flanges weren't even 4" and the cones were likely 3" at best given the specs listed on their product pages, but it didn't really settle in just how tiny these buggers are until I was holding them in my hands.
Straight out of the box, raw on the desk, they were a disappointing. Thin, really hot up top, but what was I expecting? Cobbled them into some cut and folded box flap baffles, they transformed. Hyper clear top to bottom. Had the presence of a 6"-8" driver, but imaging and soundstage like I've never heard.
Then I started testing the frequency response. First thing that got me, and this is running flat, no EQ, was that I'm pretty sure I was actually hearing the 20kHz fundamental for the first time since I've had the capacity to generate exact tones at will, and this is including using a pair of B&G Neo3PDR planar tweets that are currently hooked up right next to these drivers in the same test rig, so I was forced to cable swap back and forth a few times until I could doubtlessly confirm that I was actually hearing that. That means that the upper extension is fine as I had been led to believe that the upper limit of my hearing was about 16kHz by every other driver I've listened to. Second, also without EQ, I got solid output down into the upper 70s with useable down into the upper 60s. Third, once I built up a fairly optimized EQ stack (including making a drastic cut below 50Hz to keep the drivers from distorting), I was getting very good response down into the mid/low 50s.
Long story short, clear, solid, incredibly wide frequency response, great for OB and likely good for various sorts of enclosures (probably need to get the 4ohm version for a more traditional fit into the more common alignments). I'm enjoying these so much that I've not really been able to devote any time to experimentation or even building more permanent baffles for them. I can't recommend them highly enough.
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Goldwood GW-204/4S 4" Shielded Poly Woofer 4 Ohm
This driver is a great value and it fit like the original out of a pair of Realistic minimus 7s that i rebuilt. I already knew on the specs and the FS that bass would not be present, so if your ok with that and a sub will be employed midrange is adequate and should do well for most surround applications just not great for audio reproduction.
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Goldwood GW-4028/S 4" Woofer Shielded
To Bad This Small Woofer Does Not Come In A 4 Ohm Version. This Unit Has Pretty Good Mid Bass And Performance For A Center Speaker Project. Also Makes A Nice 2 Way Speaker For The Budget Minded. Nice Woofer For The Price!
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Tang Band W4-1720 4" Underhung Midbass Driver
I'm using these in my car as midranges, excellent sounding and alot of output.
Low distortion and a very natural sound.
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Dayton RS100T-8 4" Reference Woofer Truncated Frame
So i bought this little speaker for a replacment midrange for my Cambridge Sound Works M80s which had blown one years ago. After a lot of searching i found this to fit into the slightly horn loaded midrange section. Well i was blown away with how much better they sounded then the OE speakers. Much better sound and image. plus they look great.
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Morel CAW 428 4" Cast Frame Woofer
This has been part of my first step into speaker building. I could not be happier with the end result.
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Peerless 830871 4" HDS Nomex Woofer
Use two each as midranges in a 3 way center channel and two towers. Nice midrange clarity and sensitive enough with two in parallel. One star off features as no response plots are available from PE or manufacturer.
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