I wasn’t sure where to ask so i figured i’d reach out on here.
I have a 200w rated 400w peak 8ohm HF compression driver. I built a rinkadink talkbox using the thing and finding indeed it is a bit airy sounding. I guess ideally you would want a full range compression driver for this task but yeah i’m going to work with what i got. impulse buys and all.
Running these HF drivers without a “passive highpass” i.e capacitor will cause them to burn out from what i gather. I could definitely see that happening at the full rated power, but if i am only putting lets say max 1/10th the rated power, would i be alright to omit the capacitor? I’ve tried it briefly without and it sounds wayyy better…
Also i should mention it’s a cheapo driver, name brand is ds18 which i guess is kinda flea-market grade stuff so i’m not gonna be too upset if i somebodys advice ends up melting it. But just curious if anyone is familiar with how touchy these HF compression drivers are?
Also i can post some pics later and or maybe even STL files there is interest. But in it’s current form it’s definitely rinkadink. I’m hoping that i can make it sound less so without frying the compression driver. The amp module is like 8 watts and i have a 15 watt amp one i want to try as well but both of those should be reasonable to power the driver ‘directly’ safely or am i just better off sticking with the cap to filter out the low freq?