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Whizzer cone drivers

According to my expirience as speaker designer , i am wondering why so  many companies  still making loudspeakers with wizzer cone drivers and  so many  guys fall in love with this products choosing small paper cone as a additonal tweeter prefering high quality tweeter made from top quality components.Yes, no crossover ( capacitor) , but still ?

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dekay
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My wife wanted me to buy the Cicada's way back when (her favorite color is Red).

 

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bache:

I have a pair of vintage Elac S-517 8" wide band drivers that sound very good in fairly  large BR cabs with no baffle step correction.

Some owners/sellers thought the whizzer was metal, but I believe it to made out of some sort of metal-ized plastic.

I've experimented with other vintage and older Coral/R&A/Fostex drivers (with whizzers) and these (the Elac) are the ones that I kept and still use.

I also use Stephens Trusonic 80FR drivers that have a metal dust cap, but no whizzer.

The Elac's I kept were private labeled by Herald Electronics (I sold the identical Elac branded pair for $300, but now wish that I had kept them as they rarely come up for sale in decent shape - mine are like new).

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0511/01/vintage-elac-s517-dameter-round_1_e4c9d3dc0612a8d54c92f8db142dee58.jpg

DeKay

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