by FJF » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:31 am
Bwcad1 wrote:It sounds to me like your looking for the perfect drive in an imperfect world like all of us! lol
<grin> That very well may be true. A couple of drivers look OK on paper - Dayton Quatro and JBL GTO, as examples - but I haven't heard either. I've auditioned larger variants of the two with mixed results, but that doesn't tell me much about the 8s.
What type of mechanical noise are you getting, Can you explain that in some detail? I find it hard to understand that 4 good drivers produced the same noise.
I don't know if I'd say the four made an identical mechanical noise, yet each of them produced mechanical sounds other than the low frequencies they were meant to reproduce. Those anomalies, if you will, were clearly audible and unacceptable to my mind. None of them were over-excurting and of course I'd checked the tinsel leads. At this point, I wouldn't call any of them good drivers. Perhaps it's a matter of expectations. :)
The sub that I'm using now is fine, except for its weight and the box in the trunk. I'd auditioned quite a few drivers/enclosures before settling on a fairly modest choice that sounded best to me out of the bunch. It's also one of the lightest configurations, as a bonus. My posting here is really a shot in the dark. I've pretty much given up on the idea of using a 8 in the armrest, and thought that perhaps someone with a different range of experience could point me toward a driver I hadn't considered.
I would use the Dayton or the Ultra
I'll look into the Ultra.
[quote="Bwcad1"]It sounds to me like your looking for the perfect drive in an imperfect world like all of us! lol[/quote]
<grin> That very well may be true. A couple of drivers look OK on paper - Dayton Quatro and JBL GTO, as examples - but I haven't heard either. I've auditioned larger variants of the two with mixed results, but that doesn't tell me much about the 8s.
[quote]What type of mechanical noise are you getting, Can you explain that in some detail? I find it hard to understand that 4 good drivers produced the same noise.[/quote]
I don't know if I'd say the four made an identical mechanical noise, yet each of them produced mechanical sounds other than the low frequencies they were meant to reproduce. Those anomalies, if you will, were clearly audible and unacceptable to my mind. None of them were over-excurting and of course I'd checked the tinsel leads. At this point, I wouldn't call any of them good drivers. Perhaps it's a matter of expectations. :)
The sub that I'm using now is fine, except for its weight and the box in the trunk. I'd auditioned quite a few drivers/enclosures before settling on a fairly modest choice that sounded best to me out of the bunch. It's also one of the lightest configurations, as a bonus. My posting here is really a shot in the dark. I've pretty much given up on the idea of using a 8 in the armrest, and thought that perhaps someone with a different range of experience could point me toward a driver I hadn't considered.
[quote]I would use the Dayton or the Ultra[/quote]
I'll look into the Ultra.