Stuart Polansky wrote:
I really do appreciate this input and have ordered a couple of pairs of the Dayton drivers, one with the aluminum cone and one with paper. Pete and David, are you saying that the sonic effects of paper vs aluminum or plastic are audible (and positive with respect to paper) with a driver in the 60Hz to 2kHz range? I'll be cutting off that driver at 2kHz MAXIMUM, maybe as low as 1kHz. TBD with listening, measuring and the DC X2496.
The interest here is clean, low distortion, articulate and well defined sound. But yes, we are hoping for a natural sound.
This is step two in replacement of the Maggies, and I want to get it right. Just can't afford the high priced spread.
Stuart, in general paper will be more articulate and natural sounding, but there is a lot of variability in drivers and not knowing the specific drivers cannot say anything more. However, as I pointed out, you can modify a paper cone driver to deal with a variety of issues, whereas this is harder to do with a metal of plastic cone.