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Pioneer B20FU20-51FW 8" Full Range Driver
The Pioneer B20 has developed a following - and for good reason. It is one of the few affordable wide range drivers that can be considered for "hi-fi" use. The power handling is very good and bass response is excellent, while the mids are very smooth. The highs are a bit muted off-axis, just like the smaller 4.5" wide-range sibling, but again can be improved dramatically with some modifications done to your personal taste (equalization, phase plug, coating the cone, etc). Just search for the B20 and you'll find lots of forums withe suggestions on how to use/improve this driver. This driver has a smooth, non-fatiguing sound that is sure to please.
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Tang Band W4-1337SD 4" Titanium Driver
Amazing little driver, a little on the expensive side, but well worth the investment. Can easily be used as a full range driver with a filter to control the top end. Very versatile, can be used in many different applications. Highly recommended.
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Pioneer A11EC80-02F 4-1/2" Full Range Driver
This speaker has a nice wide response and decent power handling. It is great in a bookshelf enclosure and for those single driver purists. The high frequencies are a bit muted, but if you're adventurous, installing a phase plug and a homebrew whizzer cone can make a world of difference in terms of high frequency extension and dispersion. An awesome by at the $10 mark.
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HiVi B3N 3" Aluminum Driver Round Frame
A 3" drive with usable output in the 40 HZ range in a custom TL enclosure. Clean and composed given the price.
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Tang Band W3-1364SA 3" Bamboo Cone Driver
I tried these in a small-sealed-stuffed full-range project, and found them to be well behaved in regards to usage, and being tolerant of a certain amount of abuse. The bass was thin, and the highs seemed a little ragged. The xmax is small, and easily breached. I would think these would excell as a midrange driver for the best application. The build quality is solid, and the copper shorting cap is a plus.
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Tang Band W4-1052SD 4" Driver 4 Ohm
Great sounding full range. Can't beat the price for the sound.
Treble breakup not as bad as the graph would suggest, in fact, I don't hear a break up. Sensitivity and 4ohm work great with the $30 t-amp. Used as bedroom tunes and portable audio. Bash any portable audio system, and more with these. Vocals and interments sound great. Too many notes can sound a bit crowded, but not bad. Bass roll off is nice. No distorting of bass, or bass hitting a brick wall sound. It just rolls off smoothly and the speaker produces as much bass as it can. It has plenty of bass for the bedroom.
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HiVi B3S 3" Shielded Aluminum Driver Square Frame
One of the best 3" drivers I've used so far, especially in this price range. You could use it alone with a notch filter or with a tweeter and it has a very nice sounding midrange. Don't run full range, though. It can't handle much bass, but great with a sub. A very knowlegeable gentleman with his own website (zaphaudio.com) designed a notch filter that works very well.
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JVC 1" x 4" Full Range Neo Driver with Housing
This speaker is great. It's powered by a dayton T-amp and it is hooked up to my TV. I like it more than my polk center channel speaker. great value!
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HiVi M4N 4" Aluminum/Magnesium Midbass
I am using this driver as a midrange with a series 1st order xo at 200Hz and 4000Hz. The performance is stunning! I was amazed at the lack of a metalic coloration from this driver. I am using it along with the Hi-Vi tn28 tweeter and a pair of buyout poly cone drivers(#299-794) the midbass and tweeter blen seamlessly! and the bass drives do a good job on filling in the low end. GREAT BUY!
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Tang Band W3-593SF 3" Driver
I used these as the drivers in a pair of small satellite speakers as part of a 2.1 sub-sat configuration for my sister's college dorm room. The top end on these speakers is natural, yet very extended. Resolution isn't quite the same as you'd get using a dome tweeter, but it's better than any other full range drivers I've heard, and imaging is phenomenal. If you're looking for a great entry into single-driver loudspeakers, give this a go in a big vented enclosure or transmission line. The underhung motor is closer to an evenhung design, so even though the Xmax value is small, these things can throw their cones plenty far to belt out some solid midbass. In addition, the pincushion frame eliminates the need to flush-mount the driver.
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Tang Band W4-656SC 4" Shielded Driver
I've played around with this driver a bit and have found it to be a solid and enjoyable performer. It has a very solid chassis and a *huge* motor assembly (be sure the chamfer the back of the speaker hole).
It does not have "sparkling" highs and it will not thump you with infrasonic lows however building cheap articulate speakers that cover 55-14kHz reasonably flat is easily realizable.
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Tang Band W2-803SM 2" Driver
I was looking for an economical full range driver that was cheaper than the factory Infinity 2 3/4" driver in the dash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee (replace about 1 set a month). These are smaller, a little quieter than factory Infinity, but have a much smoother sound. A simple baffle added to these speakers and they fit into the factory location with ease. They are also about 1/3 the cost of a factory driver! Customer satisfaction with these drivers are still at 100%.
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Vifa A16CJ-21-04 6-1/2" Coaxial with Audax Tweeter 4 Ohm
Installed these in the rear door of my 99 Audi Avant, which are factory 6.5's. This driver is very similar (aesthetics and sound) to the MB Quart DSD/RSC drivers I've installed on previous cars, with multiple mounting configurations. I believe Vifa drivers are the same as many high end name brands. I ended up using a spare MBQ Reference crossover, which I believe is set at 5k 2nd order, with 0, -3, and -6dB attenuation. I used the -6dB, and the sound became very BALANCED and power handling increased. With the factory installed capacitor, the driver sounded very muddy with the tweeter very harsh and distorting. What you will get is a very WARM and accurate sound, especially on female vocals (I am a house/trance fan). For what it's worth, these make an EXCELLENT coax driver and pars up with name brand drivers costing much more. I have a set of JL Audio VR650CXi's in my other car, and I would honestly say that these Vifa's sound just as good.
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Tang Band W3-926SD 3" Driver
I bought a pair of these speakers as replacement drivers for an Altec Lansing ACS48 speaker system. These speakers really pump out the sound with no discernible distortion which was a pleasant surprise given their meager power rating. Sound is natural and clear and lacks the muddy low midrange present in many speakers.
I would like to buy about 40 of these drivers to make a pair of speaker line sources in a configuration similar to the Bose Personal Amplification System.
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Peerless 830970 2" Full Range Driver 4 Ohm
I was going to purchase Tang Band 2" drivers for a prodject when these showed up in PE's line up. I ordered 16 of these awesome little things. Put 8 of them in each line array back loaded horn that measured in at 48" Tall and 16" wide at the mouth. Hooked them up and to my amasement, just breath taking all the way down to about 50 Hz. Buy these if there are still any left! You won't be sorry. Trust me! Tang Bands are twice the cost.
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HiVi B4N 4" Aluminum Midbass Round Frame
I had this little amplified ported bass enclosure that was not doing very well, so I replaced the 4" speaker with this HiVi B4N, and now it is getting GREAT BASS!.
Very crisp, sharp bass, hard to believe it is coming from such a small speaker.
Excellent for music, won't do the deep rumbling bass of movies, of course
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Tang Band W3-881SJ 3" Shielded Neodymium Driver
On the whole I have been very pleased with this product. The materials are of good quality and the appearance isn't bad either. The ones I purchased are being put to use as full range driver in a transmission line speaker. So far they seem to fit the bill nicely.
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Vifa A13CG-21-04 5-1/4" Coaxial w/Audax Tweeter
I'm surprised Vifa would put their name on this, even at this price.
I have used some of Vifa's low cost drivers before but this one is a waste of time. The sound is like it's playing under water, muffled and muddy nothing clear about it. Plus the tweeter is about 6dB higher than the woofer with a huge drop out in the crossover zone, Plus it's harsh to top it off.
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Vifa A16CG-21-04 6-1/2" Coaxial Speaker w/Audax Tweeter
these speakers compare favorably with speakers costing much, much more. installed these in my 09 GMC regular cab pickup using the stock cd radio and an ipod. wow the highs are crisp, great midbass. they are not broken in yet, but the bass is a vast improvement from stock speakers. the highs are aven clearer than the seperate factory tweeters that are mouted on the a pillars. wish I had 2 more doors.
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Vifa A20CN-21-04 8" Coaxial w/Audax Tweeter 4 Ohm
I used 4 of these to build an attractive wide-dispersion PA system for the church auditorium. Two drivers each in 2 cu. ft. sealed boxes with triangular cross section. The 2 drivers are on adjacent faces of the triangle, "toed-out" by 30 degrees for wide dispersion. It worked rather well; the tonal balance is uniform within the room.
The bass response was well behaved down to about 50 Hz, but the highs above 1Khz are rather attenuated in the stock single-cap crossover configuration (measured both outdoors and in the room). I fixed the frequency response with the graphic equalizer in the church's mixing board and it ended up sounding rather good. There is some harshness in the upper midrange on some program material, but it probably won't be an issue for the intended application - and I'm crossing my fingers that it might diminish once the drivers are broken in.
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2" Full Range Aluminum Cone Neodymium Driver
I recently bought about 10 of these basically on a whim, with no specific use intended, but just for random projects that might come up. I never expected much, they look just like the speakers you find in cheap iPod docks. And that's about what they sound like. Not very loud, minimal bass response, and an overpowered 16-18khz range. But who cares about that? You won't be able to hear the incredibly distorted compression artifacts from your 128kbps MP3's. These ain't hi-fi, that's obvious, but certainly hold their own considering the size, price, and weight. Each unit is incredibly light. The magnet is probably rather small but I can't see it as the whole unit is enclosed in metal shielding - which is a nice feature considering the typical application. I'm going to install two of them on my bicycle along with a cheap mp3 player. If the bike flips out and busts the speakers, who cares! I've only lost $7.
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Goldwood GW-8003/8 8" Full Range Driver w/Whizzer
covers a broad spectrum of the audio range without a complicated crossover network,and does quite well with my moderate powered tube amp. some listeners may want to add a super tweeter to enhance the highest frequencies and increase the sparkle
not bad for the price. and no foam surround to rot
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Tang Band W1-1070SE 1" Full Range Driver
These things have a +15 dB peak at 2.8 KHz rendering them completely useless without extensive EQ. These are housed in an aluminum housing closed in the back. If they had been left open in the back so they could be modified like the similar Aura drivers then they might work. Sorry to disappoint, I was evaluating them for possible use in a long line but as far as I m concerned, they have no application what so ever. These make me think TB doesn t have a clue and that their better drivers were by accident. They should have never marketed these.
Monte
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HiVi B1S 1" Shielded Aluminum Mid/Tweeter
These tweeters sound great at RMS input power level, but drastically lack sensitivity. These were put into an 8pcs high line array and sounded really good, but just did not get loud at all. The second setup and installation was in the dash of a Honda Fit; 16pcs wide. In this application I was able to limit the vertical and horizontal dispersion and they turned out pretty good and is fun to demonstrate. I still give them a thumb up, because of the fun factor and the fact that they do sound good.
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Dayton ND90-8 3-1/2" Aluminum Cone Full-Range Driver 8 Ohm
The Dayton ND90-8 is an excellent full-range driver with unusually good low frequency output thanks to its long excursion capability. The driver's rated Xmax is 4mm peak with a 20mm peak-to-peak maximum excursion limit.
A single driver can deliver clean sound at moderate listening levels with a smooth (half-space) response from 70Hz to around 10 kHz. In a typical small sized enclosure with a small baffle area (my test box was 4"x7") it experiences diffraction loss (as any driver will) and would benefit from compensation. But what makes this driver stand out for me is the potential it offers for use in full-range arrays line arrays that is. Yes, I said full range. My initial analysis and measurements indicate that arrays of this driver could be corrected with moderate equalization to be flat over the range from around 38Hz to 20 kHz while providing some real SPL capability in the low end. Check out my new ND90 Full Range Line Array project details at the link below.
John L. Murphy
Physicist/Audio Engineer
www.trueaudio.com/array
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HiVi M3N 3" Aluminum/Magnesium Midbass
I used these drivers in a unique experiment to see how truly feasible "mini-drivers" are for high fidelity applications. I was very surprised to find that not only did these exceed my expectation is build quality, but had very substantial bass output, a smooth detailed midrange, and robust power handling. Fast, tight, clean and a hint of warmth (maybe honey-coated a bit due to lack of resolution) made these exceptional at their price. Highly recommended.
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Tang Band W3-315E 3" Aluminum/Magnesium Driver
I have used these in an MTM and a TM with the Audax TM025F1. They have a very strong midbass in very small ported boxes under 3 ltrs. The midrange detail is clear, including vocals, as long as you use a notch filter to tame the ringing of the metal cone. I wouldn't recommend them as a full-range driver, but I may still try it out. These are heavy, well built, and solid performing little beggars! They have great midbass in a 3" driver.
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Tang Band W3-319SF 3" Full Range Driver
A few years ago, I tried putting a Tang Band 4" driver in a little vented box to run full range. I found out (as others have) that a 4" driver (MOST 4" drivers) just can't reach high enough to be used w/o a tweeter. They also can't go low enough (even vented) to be used w/o some other larger woofer.
This time I tried a 3" (they were on sale for $9 a pop!) and put it in about a 90 cu.in. box, sealed and stuffed (Q around .7). This particular driver wasn't as "flat" as a couple other TBs, but its worst flaw (unfiltered) is a 4-5 dB peak at and just above 10 kHz. I ran one of these little gems on either side of my 42" LCD with my 12" Quatro sub in the corner for bass.
The overall effect is VERY convincing. These are great TV (HT) speakers, especially when used with a sub. They even sound good with music, but the vented sub (crossing rather high now, around 150 Hz or so) does need to be turned down a bit. When I make another batch (and I will) I'm going to put them in about 60 cu.in. cabs (5/8" PB works great) for a tad higher Q (.8). This is roughly a 5" cube! You COULD use a little notch filter on that 10k peak, but it doesn't annoy me, and you could roll off the bottom end (2nd order filter?), but these little guys seem to be doing fine.
Thanks PE (and Tang Band).
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Tang Band W3-1335SB 3" Titanium Cone Driver
I bought a pair of these to make a pair of computer speakers that I could actually listen to. It worked. The configuration is a small vented cabinet made with acrylic and an amplifier with a two pole high pass of about 85Hz with a Q high enough to get usable acoustic response to about 90Hz. The main problems with this approach are the noticeable fast bass roll-off and a certain zinginess associated with their location on a my hard surface desk. But, these play at all levels (including very reasonable room filling levels) with such a naturalness that it is hard to believe that such sound can come from such a small system. I have experienced no breakup whatsoever. They are just great for their purpose!
(Note on professional status: I'm a professional electronics engineer, but amateur audiophile.)
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Tang Band W4-1320SJ 4" Bamboo Cone Driver
I bought 2 of these last year for aprox. half the price they are now. Absolutely love these speakers, they have amazing detail. Wish I would have bought a dozen at $25 each!
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Tang Band W8-1808 8" Neodymium Full Range Driver
I had a 90 liter bass reflex cabinet I built for a hemp acoustics fr8 driver sitting in the closet gathering dust because I never could fix the ragged shoutiness in the upper mid-range of the fr8. This driver dropped into the cabinet with no modifications. It is very smooth and detailed at the same time. It may seem a little pricey but you get what you pay for as they say. I have been listening for hours now. This may be the perfect full-range driver.
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Tang Band W3-1053SC 3" Full Range Driver
I needed a driver to replace the blown one in my Tivoli Model 1. This one fit with a little manipulation of the speaker port and nothing else.
Sounds a bit clearer and more defined than the stock one plus isn't made of paper so should last longer. Overall quite happy with this cheap little driver.
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Tang Band W2-852SH 2" Shielded Driver
The front central speaker in my Chrysler 300M is out. I bought this unit to replace it. A little smaller than the original factory unit. But I fixed it on one end and duct-taped it without problem. The sound quality is superb! Like it.
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HiVi B2S 2" Shielded Aluminum Driver
I used this as a factory replacement in a car audio set up for an odd sized-dash speaker. The sound quality is much better than premium factory sound. Although the sensitivity is lower than the rest of the system, it works well with the original power.
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Tang Band W2-800SL 2" Aluminum/Mg Full Range Driver
I used this speaker to make a very small talk box, which is a guitar effect. The full range gives me a very rich sound for such a small speaker. I am pleased with the performance and volume of the tiny speaker, though, this might not be what it is typically used for.
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HiVi S1 5" Coaxial Midrange
Probably the cutest little driver available! I would keep the HP crossover above the suggest 800 Hz due to excessive 2nd harmonic above a couple watts input. About 1 KHz is ideal. At higher power through the mid-band of the midrange unit 3rd harmonic gets a little high but still a good -40 dB at low power. With 8 watts in it's getting pretty bad but that's really loud. I will suspend these below 7" ceiling mounted drivers in the master bedroom for a whole house audio system. I think they are perfect for this!
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JVC 3" x 5" Full Range Driver
This driver has surprisingly good clarity and upper range extension making for a crisp and bright sound on axis and a more neutral off axis response. Respectable bass extension as well
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Tang Band W23-1287SI 2"x3" Driver 4 Ohm
I used these to replace a set of 4x6 speakers and wish I had done it years earlier. The clarity and performance even without a seperate crossover is astounding.
Nearly seamless integration with a good set of silk dome tweeters.
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Tymphany TYPY03W06O0111 3-1/2" Full Range Driver 6 Ohm
All i can say is wow... this is an amazing full range! For the quality and materials used, it is simpely amazing. this is probably the lowest price you will EVER be able to buy a woven kevar cone speaker for. $15 is a steal! it has great clear sound and sounds absolutely great! i would recomend this for anyone who wants to make a great h-fi system on a low budget.
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Tang Band W4-1757S 4" Aluminum Cone Driver
I have worked with hundreds of drivers and this driver is perhaps the best full range driver that is available. The clarity, perfect phase and dispersion is excellent. I highly recommend these. Only concern is they are a little pricey.
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Tang Band W4-1757SB 4" Aluminum Cone Driver
I tested these in-car on the dash mounted into test enclosures of 1.25liters and aimed on axis. Crossed at 315hz -18db they played up to 20k without problems. These are extremely detailed and a smoother than many metal cone drivers I've heard, although they do still exhibit some of that "metal cone sound". For my preference, they could be smoothed on the top end slightly with eq, or crossed at 16khz -6db and really sound terrific. In listening to some recordings, I noticed small nuances that hadnt been picked up before. Very nice. These can be crossed lower as well with the additional xmax and decent power handling. Good sensitivity as well. The off axis dispersion was quite good.
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Tang Band W3-1723SA 3" Coaxial Midrange
I purchased these in hopes that it would integrate with my "home theater" system(JBL gto 5.25 car coax center.) Without years of tweeking these sound perfect for my application. The little wire hanging from the bottom is the tweeter connection, I'm still not sure if I should have them ++ or +- connected. Frequency response graph let me assume no need for crossover, though pros would probably have a great one. I may incorporate a high pass of 80-100, just to make sure nothing bad happens. mounted in an ABS cap w/pipe. They do seem a little quiet, but only have heard them as rear surrounds. Good full omni sound.
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HiVi Trinity6 Triaxial Full Range
Very few coaxial even fewer triaxial drivers out there. This could be an interesting alternative that could be time domain correct but the tweeter is lacking. Measured performance on the three separate elements showed the bass and midrange elements to be reasonably flat and well behaved, but the tweeter element is quite poor. It does not even sound like a tweeter using pink noise. I don't think the unit was defective, the tweeter is a flat polymer with a spiral conductor, and it is very close to the surface behind it. I suspect this adds to the problems. Unit was measured using Praxis for impulse, frequency response, and waterfall characteristics.
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