SEAS TOK
(total/tweeter overkill)

SEAS CA18RNX + SEAS T29CF002


Most often we will balance cost of components going into a speaker construction. If we pick a midbass at 100 US $, we won't buy silver capacitors and state of the tweeters at 4 times the cost of the bass. But what if we choose to totally spoil very good semi-priced midbass drivers with super tweeters, super caps and super coils? Proper cabinet and damping too, obviously. Could it be we might reveal qualities from these mid-priced mid-drivers, we otherwise wouldn't? I think I've seen a commercial construction somewhere with the same drivers seen here - and with too high tweeter level according to the reviewer. When reviewers have to warn about proper matching of associated equipment, it often means that a resistor at 1 $ should have been replaced by another one. Instead buyers may have to change cables, amps, etc., to proper balance something being flawed in the first place.

I am a little serious about this construction although I never expect getting any feedback on the design. I have set it up and used proper wound and baked copper wire coils, Superior Z-caps and 10W MOX resistors. And does it sound good? You bet it does. Someone might even pick this one in a blind-test compared to the CNO-mkII.
No, it's not as neutral as the CNO mkII, but these light-weight, light-coated paper cones have a responsive and vivid presentation that may suit your musical taste well. The large voice coil allows serious power handling and sensitivity will be slightly above CNO-mkII.



TOK set-up in test cabs.


Cabinets

- similar to CNO-mkII -


Crossover


Tweeter section is almost identical to CNO-mkII, where most components for the bass section are different.


Measurements


Left: Response of drivers on cabinet baffle. Right: Impedance of drivers in cabinet.


Left: SPL/1m/2.8V. System sensitivity = 86 dB. Right: Driver response driven from crossover and summed response (red).
Point of crossover = ~3 kHz.


Left: Final system impedance. Minimum is 6.8 ohms (!) Easy speaker on e.g. 30 wpc (min.) PP valve amps.
Right: Impact on response from notch-filter. This makes quite a difference. Without mid equalisation too much "right-in-your-face".


Left: Vertical dispersion at 1 meter distance:
Red: 10 cm above tweeter, blue = at tweeter height, green = between T and B, yellow = B height, purple = 5 cm below bass perimeter.
Right: Horizontal dispersion at 0, 10, 20 and 30 deg. (red/blue/green/purple).
Overall this speaker has excellent power response.


Left: CSD, 20 dB. Right: CSD, 40 dB.