Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

[PWR RYD]

Mr. UPS just rang the door bell. These are the mid bass drivers Jeff B. used in his design seminar a few weeks ago. I would like to measure their T/S parameters, but they just came off the UPS truck and I swear they are -2 degrees F.

Visual inspection indicates extremely good construction and no shipping damage because they were well packaged. I'll follow up with some before and after break in T/S parameters. If the T/S parameters measure close to what was presented in the seminar thread I have a some what different box alignment in mind.

Edit: here are the measurements all taken on my 4' x 4' baffle:

First up, far field frequency response. Mic 20" from tip of dust cap. Gating 5 ms. 1/24th smoothing.



Second, distortion measurents. Same 20" mic distance, volume adjusted:



Here is the off axis measurements. Still at 20", same gating and smoothing. 0, 15, 30, and 45 deg:



Next up is frequency response near field (~0.25") volume adjusted:



Finally, here is the near field distortion measurement:



These were all taken in the last hour. Kid's playing and banging upstairs, furnace kicking on and off. Still I think they are valid measurement.

[johnnyrichards]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

I have a pair on the way, as well. Debating a tweeter at the moment.

[Thezeek]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Were can a person buy them? Any pictures of the drivers you all may want to share?

[PWR RYD]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Based on what I heard in Kokomo I don't think you will be disappointed!

[Jim Griffin]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

For what it is worth, I posted a MLTL enclosure design a few days ago in the "Decere" thread at:

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...hlight=Griffin

The enclosure is in message #67 and the design is discussed earlier in this thread.

Jim

[Paul K.]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

And, I described a slightly smaller-volume, but otherwise identical version of Jim's ML-TL design with the line folded once so it could be used in a stand-mount or "bookshelf" cabinet.
Paul

For what it is worth, I posted a MLTL enclosure design a few days ago in the "Decere" thread at:

http://techtalk.parts-express.com/sh...hlight=Griffin

The enclosure is in message #67 and the design is discussed earlier in this thread.

Jim

[johngalt47]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

I just got four and measured them before being broken in. Have any of you measured yours yet?

W6520R-4

T/S Param #1 #2 #3 #4
Re 3.859 3.7393 3.7619 3.8405
Fs 39.03 39.03 38.36 39.03
Qts 0.44 0.439 0.422 0.428
Qes 0.506 0.498 0.484 0.49
Qms 3.407 3.719 3.333 3.391
Le 0.939 0.882 0.894 0.951
SPL 84.26 84.33 85.4 85.27
Vas 0.5179 0.5179 0.6784 0.633
Vb (Qtc = 0.64) 0.44 0.43 0.49 0.48

[PWR RYD]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

I did a quick measurement of my two, no break in, and I haven't measure Vas yet. From memory mine measured very close to yours with Fs right at 39-40Hz and Qts right around 0.43. My WT3 also reported the Le right around 0.9 mH but I don't believe that number at all. Looking at the impedance plot the rise due to inductance was one of the lowest I've ever seen. I remember Jeff saying how low his measure Le was as well.

[critofur]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Mr. UPS just rang the door bell. These are the mid bass drivers Jeff B. used in his design seminar a few weeks ago. I would like to measure their T/S parameters, but they just came off the UPS truck and I swear they are -2 degrees F.

Visual inspection indicates extremely good construction and no shipping damage because they were well packaged. I'll follow up with some before and after break in T/S parameters. If the T/S parameters measure close to what was presented in the seminar thread I have a some what different box alignment in mind.

Could you post a link to the product, or pictures please?

[isaeagle4031]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Craig, I just checked the files we got from Jeff and he is showing a .16 for Le. What is your DATS set at for the sweep? 1k or 10K? I should have mine hopefully within the week. Then to find tweets to go with them...

[Thezeek]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

This is all I could find for a link.
http://meniscusaudio.com/kokomo-p-1406.html
Not much there yet, but soon from the way it sounds.

[[email protected]]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Did all attendees get a pair or just special people?

[isaeagle4031]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

All attendees received the option of a prebuy

[craigk]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Did all attendees get a pair or just special people?

all of us that attended are special people, just some are more special than others.

[mzisserson]

Re: Received my W6520R-4 drivers!

Did all attendees get a pair or just special people?

Yeah, I thought it was a classy move too. :rolleyes:

With the price of it, it has some stiff competition...... I am sure it will live up to the hype. So will many other drivers at ~$60-$70 for a 6.5". If it ever becomes available...Prelims do not look good if they were advertising a Le of .19 and it's around .9 Typos and such happen though.... Inefficient too. Class D watts come cheap though.

Before I get booed off stage by the usual few: The upside is it does appear to be a well-built alternative to what is out there. We'll see. Unless someone can shed some light on why this is the next driver to beat ? Anyone? Bueler?

The one speaker playing through the youtube video did sound exceptional...I must say :P.....