SEAS vs SB Acoustics
SB is a Malaysian company. Revel uses SB drivers in the Performa line and I assume the Concerta though I am not 100% sure on this. Excellent quality drivers and Far East production makes them a good value. Once you put a speaker in a box, you are going to lose efficiency. The SBs are better than the SEAS excels in terms of efficiency but you aren’t going to get SET efficiency out of them. I also wouldn’t say SB driver are superior. At best it is debatable. You almost need to look to pro speakers. Eighteen Sound makes excellent high efficiency drivers and would be a good choice. You can get efficiencies in the mid to high 90s and they are very good sounding. |
Information on SB Acoustics company’s country of origin and design here: https://audioxpress.com/article/factory-tour-sinar-baja-electric-and-sb-acoustics From which I quote: ... this Indonesian company with its own dedicated design team in Denmark ... |
SB is danish designed and engineered, manufactured by their partner company based in Java. Revel, or actually Samsung, don’t use SB drivers now, they went in-house. To OP, you cant just swap out different drivers. The 9.5 Satori also needs a fairly large cab to get the best from it, around 60 litres upwards. |
@ willmacc That rules out my idea of employing the 9.5 for the 7.7 Neo SB Acoustics. I am not looking fora larger size cab. The Thor's tower is at my max size/weight. I am really looking forward to having 2 sets of speakers, will be interesting have 2 world class speakers, Keep in mind the SEAS Excel line is over 20 year old technoloy,= 20 yrs ahead of all/any competitors,, SB's neo line, not sure when introduced, but both will be near equal, depensd on the cd recording and what each listener wants from a speaker. The thing with these neo large magnets, ones needs clean, pure watts, For these drivers, class A only. That is to say if the amp has anemia, the speakers will not respond, = ~~open up/soundstage/dynamics~~~ all this and more will be curtailed. So everyone should keep in mind this requirement before purchasing either lab's speakers. Also, I would suggest using Mundorf silver/gold oil caps, or whatever one can afford , make sure has silver in the cap for superior performance of the driver. Makes no sense buying a world class driver and installing $10 tin/paper caps. I also suggest requesting Mundorf's R Resist resisitors. This way , years down the road, you do not have to upgrade the xovers. Spend a little more, get alot more. |
