Seas drivers

[Balderdash]

Hello,

Seas drivers are held in very high regard. Does anybody know which manufacturers use them?

Thanks.

 

[RuudS]

I believe that Devore Fidelity use Seas drivers.

 

[bluedroog]

XTZ

 

[DocG]

I believe that Devore Fidelity use Seas drivers.

Yes they do, Ruud. Have you heard these speakers? Just this weekend, I bumped into a new hifi-store that stocks them. The Gibbon 88 sounds superb! Going back later this week for a proper audition with my own amp!

To the OP: PMC use Seas tweeters in their FACT and Twenty speakers. Harbeth uses them too, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[drummerman]

The Crescendo is used in a number of very expensive speakers and quite a few manufacturers use Seas co-developed drivers in their applications. Seas will design drivers to specification.

I guess as always, the end result is more important than the sum of its part but it all starts with a good driver.

regards

 

[hoopsontoast]

Loads of manufacturers use Seas drivers, lots of OEM too, off the top of my head:

Older Proac (Tablette etc)

Vienna Acousics (Mostly)

Spendor (Tweeters and Bass Driver OEM)

Shahinian (Mostly)

Sonus Faber (Tweeters and various in older models)

Keesonic (Rare)

Heybrook (Mostly)

Opera (Mostly)

Art

PMC (Mid-Bass and Tweeters)

ATC (Tweeters)

Diapason (mostly)

Kudos (Mostly)

 

[RuudS]

Hi Doc, never heard the Devore speakers.

I'm curious how they sound.

 

[DocG]

Hi Doc, never heard the Devore speakers.

I'm curious how they sound.

I had heard his Gibbon 3XL standmounters earlier, on the end of a Devialet D Premier. The combination didn't convince me at all (flat and congested), but neither did the Dev + Harbeth M30.1 combo I tried next. I suspected something must have been wrong with the amp (that's the drawback with a software driven amplifier: there's a lot you can screw up if you use the settings wrongly).

Last Saturday I heard the Gibbon 88s, driven by a Naim UnitiQute (that was in another store). First impressions: (very) fast and cohesive; excellent soundstage; natural. I'm gonna try them with my Devialet and my own music soon. Small as they are, they may be a tempting alternative for the bigger boys on my list...

 

[margetti]

Penaudio

 

[Balderdash]

Thanks all. No shortage of them clearly.