X12 spec drivers: UK alternative needed please

P Audio x12 spec drivers discontinued. As a novice I wouldn't know what to replace them with. The cabinets have been built to spec and I don't want to bugger about retuning them, so your recommendations for a UK build alternative please.

(I realise that there are many threads about this already but from various builders in various countries. This thread is Uk specific.)

ta muchly.

Edited by tendril - 28 August 2009 at 1:26pm

I have said many times the original and only X12's were equiped with budget drivers. To get comparable performance there is no need to look beyond the Celestion TN1225's.

The important part is then the Comp. You can either build them as a M-T-M arrangement which allows you to use any number of 1" comps crossed as low as 1.8K or in more typical M-M-T arrangement and either use a 1-1/4" comp crossed at around 1.2K or one of the BMS 1" drivers crossed as low as 1K although this is probably not cost effective giving the budget nature of the Bass-Mid driver.

Tony



Edited by Tony Wilkes - 29 August 2009 at 10:31am

It keeps the relative path lengths for the 3 drivers as close as possible assuming listening on the comp axis. With a double bass mid arrangement there is always some anomaly because of the physical distance from the comp to the lower bass unit.
Lowering the x-over frequency also helps which is why you see a lot of 2" units used in this arrangement crossed at 800-1000hz. But these often sound sub-optimal.

No arrangement is perfect its all about managing the compromises.

Tony