Bought funktion-one 8" drivers. Advice on usage

Just scooped pair of funktion-one ax88 drivers 8" at low price from well know hire firm with only half day research to decide. Hope i have not made mistake, Although i have strange vintage Hifi... these are somewhat exotic PA drivers for me, so i thought i would need to ask about them in advanced section.

In principle they sound great , hi frequency PA volumes with a hifi leaning. No idea what the reality of them is.

Are these high mids a big player in the almost loud hifi of the Funktion-One gear ? Apparently its that they made this high mid 8" paper driver to go up to 7k with a massive sensitivity so no CD required except a hi super tweeter.

I will use them in a 2.5k small club rig trying to get a nice hifi sound in top frequencies anyway (ok i know hifi means quality in entire range). Using two 18xb for sub (running at 600rms)and undecided on kick and supertweet. Have two 15" eminence LF and two APT80 or Behringer CD's to do for now.


1. The Funktion-one 8" drivers have a screw in middle for phase plug, so i am guessing knocking one together is essential for function, or can they operate without a phase plug, but limit the high cross to say 5k. I can only try but do now want to blow these ?

2. The horn loading aspect i presume i can do without that unless worried over coverage or not ?

3. How many watts should i put into these ? Info varies that their RMS is 160 to 200. But what is optimal if was cranking the rest of PA system to match ?

4. seeing as their final figure of a pair in an Ax88 with hi cone is 6 ohm I am guessing they are 16 ohm each ?

5. what freq range would you cross them at, in a non horn enclosure, purely on their own merits as a speaker ?

Any other info, precautions regarding these ? Yes its newbie question, but i presume advanced driver.


Thanks


RH

I'm inclined to agree with smithers.

There's a chance you could build/design a box that they would work in, but they're really specifically for one product.

I mite take them off your hands if you don't get the results your looking for

I would guess it has a very light moving assembly, and a comparatively strong motor. I would expect to find a copper cap or ring on the pole piece for the purpose of reducing distortion. You'd also want a low inductance coil to allow more HF to be reproduced though I'm not sure specifically how that would be achieved.

thanks for last two replies.. I was wondering about the driver vs waveguide aspect.. Well maybe picked up a massively loud hifi type driver, but ill tell you when i test. At least the plug aspect isnt much of a big deal.

What was that about fibreglass moulds...?

Oh BTW. so has anybody got an AX88 i can borrow for a day. Just want to listen to it of course. 

Of course, the curious wouldn't mind seeing some photos of this, as well as measured T/S parameters .....