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In the Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers

Post Subject: One good 10" midwoofer driverPosted by noviygera on: 10/21/2011

I would like to add this driver to a good driver list:

HiVi D10G 10" Kevlar/Paper Woofer, it is sold at parts-express.com and it was one of a few drivers that I ordered for a personal shoot-out. Ignoring the fact that it is yellow and that it makes huffing noises thought the back voice coil ventilation opening during high excursion, fast transients, this 10" driver with no cone treatment or coating has a great tone for bass and midbass compared to other 10" and 12" paper and carbon fiber drivers. It is not even necessary to compare this driver to anything to realize that it sounds very good.

It has medium efficiency and I have tried it as a woofer, with a lowpass 12db/oct @ 125 Hz filter.

What strikes me interesting is that it has no "dual" personality that plagues coated/treated cone drivers. The tone it produces is solid, coherent and monumental with no lurking of other subtones that suggest any smearing of the fundamental driver's tone. Nothing creeps out from the main tone.

I think using this driver as the bottom range or midbass range with a top of 150Hz with shallow crossover slopes will be quite rewarding, in a sealed box.

Herman

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