[danvprod]

Saw this yesterday in the new PE catalog. Was thinking it might be considered for Super V P-Audio replacement driver.

http://www.parts-express.com/celestion-ftx1225-12-coaxial-full-range-professional-driver--294-2098

Couple of things:
* Seems to use a smaller compression driver, and with a recommended 2k XO 12 dB/octave it may be a non-starter.
* Obviously this is a standard compression driver in not milled out like the custom P-Audio. I don't even know if it would be possible with this driver.
* Sensitivity is the same (97 dB), but frequency response graph looks very peaky - and the compression driver looks like it starts falling off rapidly below 1k.

Anyways, I thought it was interesting and passing it along...

[Danny Richie]

Unfortunately that driver really isn't in the ballpark of the P-Audio driver that we were using in the Super-V.

The only suitable replacement that I have found is this one:  http://www.usspeaker.com/beyma%2012XA30nd-1.htm

And I don't know if it will allow the back of the tweeter to be milled out and used as an open baffle driver like we did with the P-Audio BM12CX38.

[Jonathon Janusz]

I've seen this come up a couple of times.  The beyma driver looks interesting - neo magnets, polyester surround on the tweeter diaphragm.  I guess it really would just take somebody willing to throw $500 at the idea to see if it would pan out.  If I didn't have a room really too small to do OB, and the super-v wasn't basically kryptonite to me...

[danvprod]

Thanks, OK fair enough. I guess the P-Audio driver was pretty special in that regard.