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Adrian,

This it truly complicated question. The Titans’ upperbass (the better one, curved, with 12” driver) is not realty HF capable and it makes a MF driver need to go all the way down to probably 500Hz (I do not know what Bruce dies in the crossovers and how he arranges the Titans).

Before I discovered the S2 driver I ran over many-many drivers but I always looked at them from 800-1000Hz and up. It was too many of them, I was buying them, trying them and pretty much with a couple weeks I was selling them… I do not remember that the 5A540 impressed me a lot but so I did not like the 2441. I feel that 2440 was way more interesting driver. Still, all of those compressions drivers (including my S2) are pretty much junk and not just junk but 30-50 years old junk. In order to get any more or less civilized sound from then you need to have a bunch of those drivers, open them up and tune them in order to do what they might do. It is known that Bruce stick into Titans the most economical drivers but his drivers-man does tune the drivers up. This MAKES ALL DIFFERENCE from my point of view and I did heard the Titans’, even with 2441, to sound very well. Furthermore, Bruce used in Titans the Fane tweeter that I used and found it  absolutely horrible but I do admit that in Titans that I head 3 years ago at CES (before Bruce demoded hi straight upperbass horns) had no problems with Fane tweeter...

So, it is necessary to know how everything to organized in the Titans in order to see how it might be revised when you use another MF driver. I would defiantly try there 2440/375 or the large Altecs or something more exotic… You have to understand that Bruce never cared about better drivers for Titans as he looks for a steady flow of inexpensive and easily obtainable drivers. BTW, do not forget that different drivers might use different diaphragms that also change sound quite dramatically…

In the end I do not think that anyone would tell you how this or other compression driver will do. In my past buying and to selling the driver I was loosing $50-100 per driver and I figured out that it was a reasonable price to pay for the experience. I just wish I had at that time (2000) I had as much understanding and familiarity with compression drivers as I have now that would perhaps allowed me at that time to use the tried drivers in more sophisticated manner…

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