All items tagged with SEAS (57)

The Latest Advanced Loudspeaker Designs Are Measured in Voice Coil June 2025

May 29, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

The Latest Advanced Loudspeaker Designs Are Measured in Voice Coil June 2025

Voice Coil June 2025 offers the latest news from Klippel and Dayton Audio, and includes a complete listing of Headphone Test & Measurement Equipment, with updates on all the companies active in that space. For this issue's Test Bench, Vance Dickason prepared two extended characterizations of the TSQ2145 21" Pro Sound Subwoofer from Celestion's 10 Squared line-up, and the C16NX001/X, an advanced 5.25" metamodal TPCD coaxial driver from SEAS.

Microspeakers to High-End Tweeters in Voice Coil May 2025

April 29, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Microspeakers to High-End Tweeters in Voice Coil May 2025

Voice Coil May 2025 is now available and in this issue, Vance Dickason explores the popular miniDSP Flex HTx processor, while Mike Klasco dives into the world of microspeakers. For this issue's Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes his first driver from the new Italian brand RS Speakers, a new TW 104.28 N/Ag 1.1” tweeter, and next measures the 27TFC/T 1” Soft Dome Tweeter from the SEAS Prestige Titan Line.

SEAS Launches Toy DIY Kit With Metamodal TPCD Coaxial Driver

February 13, 2025 by Joao Martins

SEAS Launches Toy DIY Kit With Metamodal TPCD Coaxial Driver

SEAS launched a new DIY kit to highlight the qualities of its state-of-the-art Metamodal TPCD coaxial drivers, allowing everyone to build a working speaker for evaluation and enjoyment. An evolution of the popular SEAS Joy kit that the speaker manufacturer already offered with a single coaxial driver, the new Toy DIY speaker is an enjoyable design that truly highlights the benefits of state-of-the-art Metamodal TPCD technology.

Diamond Coatings for Speakers, IEMs, and Headphones

August 21, 2024 by Mike Klasco

Diamond Coatings for Speakers, IEMs, and Headphones

This article explores a fascinating topic that is recurrent in the loudspeaker industry: diamond coatings. As speaker designers look to refine their products' sound quality through diaphragm treatments, there are benefits to be explored from diamond coatings, or more specifically diamond-like-coatings (DLC), which is a process that matured over the last half-century. The industry has now reached a stage where this technology becomes available and viable, particularly for microspeakers.

Test Bench: SEAS New High-End 5.25” Metamodal TPCD Midbass Woofer

August 7, 2024 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: SEAS New High-End 5.25” Metamodal TPCD Midbass Woofer

This Test Bench explores the exciting SEAS W16NX005 5.25" Metamodal TPCD Midbass Woofer. Part of the SEAS high-end Excel line of transducers, the W16NX005 is the first commercial product available that combines the latest Composite Sound metamodal TPCD diaphragm technology with the typical SEAS high-performance Excel woofer motor design. This midbass woofer includes a metamodal diaphragm and 2" convex dustcap, along with an optimized NBR surround and black cloth flat profile spider for compliance.

Test Bench: The Excel 29mm T29X001 Home Audio Tweeter from SEAS

May 15, 2024 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: The Excel 29mm T29X001 Home Audio Tweeter from SEAS

The SEAS T29X001 tweeter, from the company's high-end Excel line of transducers, is a wide surround format type, like the original Vifa DX/XT tweeters, and combines the latest Composite Sound metamodal thin-ply carbon diaphragm (TPCD) technology with the seriously outstanding SEAS Excel radially charged Hexadym motor structure. This new tweeter makes the Norwegian manufacturer effectively the first company in the market to offer the latest metamodal TPCD diaphragm solution.

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

March 28, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

In Voice Coil April 2024, Tom James reminds us about the importance of SPL Graph Data, and Mike Klasco revisits the fundamentals of speaker lead-out wire. As scheduled, there's an updated directory of Speaker Cable and Connector Vendors. James Croft explores a patent detailing a filter that may increase and extend the bass frequency response of a speaker. And for this month's Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the Neotera Ultraflat UF 295 CBS 10" Subwoofer, followed by the SEAS W16NX005 5.25" Midbass Woofer with a metamodal TPCD diaphragm.

Ideas for Speaker Enclosures Now in Voice Coil March 2024

February 28, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ideas for Speaker Enclosures Now in Voice Coil March 2024

Voice Coil March 2024 focuses on speaker enclosures with a unique directory of innovative material ideas, followed by an always insightful patent review, where James Croft revisits the pivotal Dinaburg invention. For Test Bench, this month Vance Dickason characterizes the SIG180-4 6.5” woofer from Dayton Audio’s Signature Series, and a midbass shallow-profile 6.5” driver, the Stereo Integrity TM65 mkIV.

Test Bench: SEAS’ New L22ROY2 8” Subwoofer from Its Extreme Line

January 31, 2024 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: SEAS’ New L22ROY2 8” Subwoofer from Its Extreme Line

The new L22ROY2 8" subwoofer from Norwegian OEM manufacturer SEAS offers a well-appointed feature set that includes a proprietary cast 16-spoke (8 twin spokes) cast-aluminum frame, completely open 1" deep below the spider mounting shelf. Other features include a very stiff black anodized aluminum cone and dust cap, NBR surround, driven by a 2" voice coil. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, September 2023.

Voice Coil February 2024 Cone and Dome Issue Now Available

January 29, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Voice Coil February 2024 Cone and Dome Issue Now Available

The February 2024 issue of Voice Coil is now available, and it includes a major resource for all speaker designers and manufacturers, which is our annual Loudspeaker Cone and Dome Manufacturers Directory. In Test Bench, you can find characterizations of the new SEAS Excel T29X001 home audio tweeter, the first transducer to incorporate Composite Sounds' TPCD metamodal technology. The second driver in Test Bench is Eighteen Sound's latest 8NTLS2000 8" high-power handling woofer, for professional audio applications.

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