Any and all feedback is appreciated.

I haven't heard this particular model from the Selah Audio line. I have spent time with earlier Seas Excel woofers/Fountek ribbon tweeters line arrays from Rick Craig and have been very impressed. The Excel drivers are special and well known for their very low distortion and should really shine in these arrays. At the Rocky Mountain Audio show in October he had the XT8 (Vifa XT woofers) and Fountek ribbons arrays for listening and I enjoyed hearing them.

As the sensitivity of these arrays in the low to mid 90's, your amp has more than enough juice to make them sing. That performance coupled with the current 15% off line array sale should be enough to seal the deal.

Jim

Jim

The question is how do you make a small fortune in the speaker building business?

First you start with a large fortune and ......

The high end loudspeaker business is very fragmented with numerous small manufacturers competing for a declining market (car audio and home theater are the biggies these days). The low and middle portion of the speaker market is controlled by the big box retailers who demand low price foreign made products. One would not wish those market directions on a new business venture.

My personal question was did I wish to screw-up my retirement from a 30+ years engineering career by going into the speaker building business?

My decision was to use develop my audio/acoustics knowledge while using some of those engineering skills after I retired from the aerospace field. Thus I do the engineering for speaker designs, develop speaker prototypes for my own usage, share my designs with others, and finally have no regrets on starting a production line. I'm my own boss.

Jim