Titanium itself isn't whats making it sound bad. Dont forget your dealing with cheap chinese stuff here, most of which is poor quality. If your using Waynes Pi Crossover its possible that your horn flares dont provide the right curve.

I use P.Audio PA-D45's, which are titanium diaphram devices. They sound excellant. From memory the PA-D72's are the 2" diaphram version of mine, which are 1", and both retail pretty expensive. I have not used the P.Audio 2380 horn flares, but I think thats a JBL model number and is probably a copy of theirs. I've heard some pretty good things about this flare from P.Audio though, I think, I'll check later to see if it is the one.

Have you got a link to these compression drivers on the internet? I'd like to see exactly what these Soundking comp drivers are like.

In any case, I can only say good things about the P.Audio stuff. I use the PA-D45's on JBL 2370 horn flares. Titanium diaphrams, but sound awesome!

Adrian

I dont have any experiance with the driver you mention. There a few guys out there that dont like titanium diaphagm compression drivers. Some find then harsh and metalic sounding. Altec used a lot of aluminum and JBL did on older stuff. There is still a preference by some people for phenolic diaphragms in the mid-vocal range. It's been said that titanium was used mostly to increase durability for the pro's who popped the aluminum units like party balloons, and to help bring a higher extension to the compression driver. There was no way the phenolic was happy past 10k and in the upper octave it was a stretch for most of the aluminums. There are companies making the drivers today that use berrylium, aluminum, polyester and phenolic. I switched from the titanium diaphrams myself. Your milage may vary

Bill

I checked out that Soundking website - a lot of their woofers use JBL part numbers, and look extremely similar in physical appearance. A bit of a pity they dont list any T/S specs, oh well - perhaps they arn't very good at reading english so they couldn't copy what JBL have done :P

Anyway, I couldn't find the comp drivers on the soundking website. Did you manage to find them?

I use Wayne's Pi Crossover on my horn/comp driver combo. The JBL 2370 provides the right curve needed and the D45 compression driver I use is also suitable. Below is the PA-D72 2" exit comp drivers curve:

I think that suits Waynes crossover pretty well. Below is the graph of the P.Audio 2380 horn:

It looks a bit weird, but it may be OK. Wayne should be able to answer this question better than I can. There is definitly a compensation circuit that could be used even if it had to be modified.

In any case, I think you will be happy with the PA-D72 compression drivers. They are the same series as my PA-D45's, so they are likely to sound pretty similar. And P.Audio isn't the typcial cheap crap either, it really does sound good, especially the PA and BM series if your afer a "smooth" sound that is nice. They sure do beat a lot of the typcial commercial dome tweeters and such.

Adrian