Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
One of my favorite speakers is the Focus Audio FS-788. It uses the Scan-Speak Revelator tweeter and an excellent 7" Eton woofer.
The Scan-Speak driver costs $179.00 and the 7" Etons go for around $130 or more. At least that's the price I paid on the four Eton's I have in my garage right now. I was using them for a DIY 2-way project but gave up because the Eton's die like a shot duck below 130hz. Not sure how you got them to work in a two way because of this problem...{shrug}.

Anyways, Scan-Speak build drivers that are amongst the best in the world, Eton isn't exactly Walmart either, while the Diva uses a $12 tweeter. I don't care if you put the Scan-Speak drivers in a styrofoam cooler and secure them with duct tape - they'll sound light-years better than a $12 tweeter, and that's my point. Hi-Vi builds low to barely mid-fi gear, and one of the dominant rules of speaker engineering is that you can save money with labor in China building cabinets, and maybe using a lower end woofer or mid woofer, but tweeters and vocal mid-ranges are purely the result of their build and determine the main character of the speaker. So let me repeat; the Diva 6.1 is using a $12 tweeter and $45 midrange. *If*, and I repeat *IF* they can hold a candle to the B&W's let alone be in the same room with them, then Hi-Vi is selling world class drivers at cost or well below cost, and Scan-Speak is ripping us off.



As the "proprietary drivers'....I'm quite skeptical about this approach.
I'm not, and lets please stop comparing Paradigm to B&W.

I have no arguement with DIY'ers building killer speakers that rival if not surpass the big guys. *But*, those really good DIY designs I've heard *all* use Scan-Speak level drivers, or better. They don't use $12 tweeters, and that's my point.