- Driver Selection -
Starting with the woofer, I was immediately intrigued by the new Morel
Hybrid series of drivers. They offer a good combination of specs and
performance, and sell at what I would consider the upper end of the
mid-priced drivers. From doing some quick modeling of the parameters,
I liked the looks on paper of the H6.1 6" driver. It has specs to make it
work well in a mid-size vented enclosure, and has a very good sensitivity
compared to other drivers of its size. Cosmetically it is very attractive
and uses a coated DPC cone, large rubber surround, and nice lowstray-
field neo/ceramic motor. I did some quick measurements of the
frequency response, which offered a clean response up to 2 kHz, and
the parameters matched Morel's specs fairly well. The H 6.1 looked like
a good choice.
Since we were using a relatively high-end woofer, I knew that I wanted
to start looking at Morel's higher-end tweeter offerings. I have used the
MDT-30 before and know that it is a very nice tweeter, so I wanted to use
something similar but perhaps a little better suited for this design. I did
not need ultra-high sensitivity or ultra-high power handling, and since the
H6.1 is essentially shielded, a neodymium tweeter would be good choice.
The MDT-39 seemed the perfect balance of cost versus performance;
with everything I needed including the shielding without too many
superfluous features.
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