Can someone guide me as to what Single driver ??

Bbchem,

Tell us a little bit about your system, your room and your musical preference. This may help with a recommendation.

FWIW, I'm currently using a single driver speaker built using the Hemp Acoustics FR8.0DIY driver. It is the first affordable single driver speaker I've ever heard that I could live with. In my room it has great bass response and the treble response is good enough that I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

My speakers were a DIY for a review in The Ultra-Fi Times webzine. You could easily reproduce them for about $600-$700. They are a very easy build. Here is a link to my speakers:

http://www.hempacoustics.com/Review.pdf

Omega makes a similar speaker that looks better on paper than mine. It is called MaxHemp. It is much more expensive, but it is factory built and looks beautiful. Mine aren't so great looking and would look out of place in a nice livingroom.

Enjoy,

TIC

The Single Driver Website:

http://melhuish.org/audio/

if you've owned 30 pairs of speakers and haven't been satisfied, the 31st pair won't get you there....no matter what design it is.....enjoy what you've got, whatever it is...or just stop for a while.

I currently own Omega speakers with my SET amp and am enjoying it. Please see my latest System in my signature below.

They're relatively new to me and am still evaluating. I can share my opinion shortly if you're interested.

Thanx

Going off on a tangent...have you ever tried AKG K1000 "Ear Speakers"?

Hammer Dynamics Super-12 kit ($650, 97dB/8ohm)

It uses a 12" fullrange single-driver for 40Hz-10k+Hz, then a coaxially mounted supertweeter is used for 10k+Hz and above. 1st order crossover to minimize phase shift and distortion. It is is mounted in simple 70L ported cabinet and produces some of the punchiest, most powerful, bass I've come across in the FR speakers I've heard. The midrange is fantastic and highs just a good.

The Fullrange Driver Forum has a whole section dedicated to simple, cheap, Super-12 mods to raise the performance to an even better level.

I've owned them for 4+ years and listened to a lot of other FR systems in that time. Some were better overall, some were equal in one way or another, many were worse.

A couple of years ago I made the jump to a $12k+ FR speaker system(Fostex double-horns + dual subwoofers) after a few years of auditioning, but I still own the Super-12's. They are that good, especially when taking cost into consideration.

I consider them to be a near-perfect first excursion into high(ish)-efficiency FR speakers. They are affordable, perform extremely well, ably demonstrate all the best and unique qualities of single drivers, and provide extremely good bass response. The last point cannot be overlooked because that is single largest caveat to FR speakers - bass.

I have easily driven them with everything from flea-powered 3-18wpc SET's, 10-40wpc PP tube amps, and solid state 20-255wpc amps.