I have experienced with a 12" Ahuja woofer with a published sensitivity of 97db(fake). Also my 12" Alnico woofer with original cone was only 93dB sensitive. I reconed the Alnico with foam surround and no dustcap to reduce moving mass and that improved the sensitivity to a meager 95dB.
My monoblocks are just a 3+ 3 watts power output. My field coil driver is a 103+dB SPL and compression driver is 108+dB SPL sensitivity wise. Very nice and very easy to drive with my tube amplifier with zero stress and enough headroom. But the issue happens at the bottom end as my woofer is almost -10dB lower in level compared to my mids and highs causing imbalance in sound stage.
To reduce this effect, i have now biamped my 12" woofer with my Denon AVR which has levelled the response from 40Hz till 500Hz and it sounds very nice. But, I am looking for woofers that can be as sensitive as my field coil and compression driver for me to avoid any biamping.
I could only find GPA drivers (104+dB and way way outside my budget) and eminence woofers(100dB and can be thought of) to somewhat fit my requirements. Any thing else is not known to me. Suggestions please.
My monoblocks are just a 3+ 3 watts power output. My field coil driver is a 103+dB SPL and compression driver is 108+dB SPL sensitivity wise. Very nice and very easy to drive with my tube amplifier with zero stress and enough headroom. But the issue happens at the bottom end as my woofer is almost -10dB lower in level compared to my mids and highs causing imbalance in sound stage.
To reduce this effect, i have now biamped my 12" woofer with my Denon AVR which has levelled the response from 40Hz till 500Hz and it sounds very nice. But, I am looking for woofers that can be as sensitive as my field coil and compression driver for me to avoid any biamping.
I could only find GPA drivers (104+dB and way way outside my budget) and eminence woofers(100dB and can be thought of) to somewhat fit my requirements. Any thing else is not known to me. Suggestions please.