high efficiency?

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ratso

high efficiency?
« on: 8 May 2012, 07:20 pm »
was glancing at the  devore 3xl's, kicking around in my head an idea of maybe a small system for a future reading room. they are seas 5" woofer driven, and 8 ohms/90 dB sensitivity. should be easy to drive with even small tube amps. i was wondering if jim could build something similar with a raal or what the challenges would be for something like this? (yes i know, call him - i am not currently in the market for this, just kicking it around as i said).

jsalk

Re: high efficiency?
« Reply #1 on: 8 May 2012, 08:29 pm »
I don't know what Seas woofer that would be.  I couldn't seem to locate one that was over 90db in sensitivity.  And if you incorporate baffle step compensation (which you should) you would need one a few more db's than that.

Other than that, if we have an appropriate woofer, it certainly could be done (although it probably wouldn't play very low).

- Jim