I'm confused, the Seas Thor uses 2 x W18E001 (7")
WEll what i mean to say is although it is described as a 7 inch midwoofer,, if you measure the acutal foam edge to edge , it comes to 5 1/2 inches,, thats tiny, but does the job nicely..
sure as stated above depends on rm size,, my room is like 10 X12, 8 ft ceiling, small, but it is what it is.
I am about 8 ft from speakers, ,I have gain low, not even 1/4 turn on Jadis DPL. Never in my 40 yrs as audiophile , care for/enjoy *loudness*. There is a point where i am comfortable after that gain,,whats the point of having more db level???
= I am not a true audiophile, Loud to me is pointless/meaningless.
@oldhvybelow a 7/5.5 midwoofer, , as in your 4 inch,,thats too tiny, the bass will not be sufficient.
~~NOTE~~~ when i used the descript **SLAMMMM* above,, I was of course exaggerating, just trying to draw attention to the observation that **really** in a normal size listening enviornment, a 7 inch/5.5 actual midwoofer offers more than enough bass to satisfy the criterion of a audiophiles demand for bass slam.
Slam as in true hi fidelity(tight, subtle, clean, gorgeous...,,not slam as in hiphop , R&R, Grunge genre, which is just like bombs going off.
It might be true though the SEAS EXCEL W22 or even W26 , may offer a bass which is even more luxuorious , sublime than the W18, , Thing is , how to xover the W22/26 to a midtweet successfully.
This is where the SEAS engineers came across isues, The W22/26 offered too much bass, and so overwhelmed the balances of lower midrage/midrage/uppermidrange fq's.
Things were not balanced. So the perfect match could only be the W18, 5 1/2 inch cone. = Done Deal = Case closed.
W18 King of all bass/low midrange fq's for regular/normal size listening enviornments and the most ideally perfect driver to meet the xover to a midtweet.
WEll what i mean to say is although it is described as a 7 inch midwoofer,, if you measure the acutal foam edge to edge , it comes to 5 1/2 inches,, thats tiny, but does the job nicely..
sure as stated above depends on rm size,, my room is like 10 X12, 8 ft ceiling, small, but it is what it is.
I am about 8 ft from speakers, ,I have gain low, not even 1/4 turn on Jadis DPL. Never in my 40 yrs as audiophile , care for/enjoy *loudness*. There is a point where i am comfortable after that gain,,whats the point of having more db level???
= I am not a true audiophile, Loud to me is pointless/meaningless.
@oldhvybelow a 7/5.5 midwoofer, , as in your 4 inch,,thats too tiny, the bass will not be sufficient.
~~NOTE~~~ when i used the descript **SLAMMMM* above,, I was of course exaggerating, just trying to draw attention to the observation that **really** in a normal size listening enviornment, a 7 inch/5.5 actual midwoofer offers more than enough bass to satisfy the criterion of a audiophiles demand for bass slam.
Slam as in true hi fidelity(tight, subtle, clean, gorgeous...,,not slam as in hiphop , R&R, Grunge genre, which is just like bombs going off.
It might be true though the SEAS EXCEL W22 or even W26 , may offer a bass which is even more luxuorious , sublime than the W18, , Thing is , how to xover the W22/26 to a midtweet successfully.
This is where the SEAS engineers came across isues, The W22/26 offered too much bass, and so overwhelmed the balances of lower midrage/midrage/uppermidrange fq's.
Things were not balanced. So the perfect match could only be the W18, 5 1/2 inch cone. = Done Deal = Case closed.
W18 King of all bass/low midrange fq's for regular/normal size listening enviornments and the most ideally perfect driver to meet the xover to a midtweet.