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<blockquote data-quote="Seraphim38" data-source="post: 7667656" data-attributes="member: 638571"><p>In truth this a misconception, though it is the common experience in the auto sound marketplace. In larger commercial, professional environments it proves not to be true.</p><p></p><p>The most successful, best selling, highest output commercial bass guitar amplified cabinet has eight 10" woofers, and will easily overpower a reasonable sized outdoor or indoor large wattage sound system. And I know this because I work for that brand. One might think that 2 18" woofers would out perform 8 10s, but it actually, practically, doesn't work that way.</p><p></p><p>That said, moving air can be about linear travel and cone area, along with box construction and other factors. More smaller woofers in a proper enclosure can perform as well as a larger woofer in a proper enclosure, but it all comes down to the science and a bunch of details. A larger woofer doesn't automatically result in lower resonant frequecies, but it certainly can seem to be the case in the automotive sound market.</p><p></p><p>And the mass argument sounds interesting but doesn't prove true when used to its logical ends. One of our brands includes a dual 21 inch subwoofer that takes 4,500 RMS watts continuous to each driver. They are insane. It's not because each woofer weighs a ton; it's a function of the cone area, linear excursion, enclosure design and other variables.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seraphim38, post: 7667656, member: 638571"] In truth this a misconception, though it is the common experience in the auto sound marketplace. In larger commercial, professional environments it proves not to be true. The most successful, best selling, highest output commercial bass guitar amplified cabinet has eight 10" woofers, and will easily overpower a reasonable sized outdoor or indoor large wattage sound system. And I know this because I work for that brand. One might think that 2 18" woofers would out perform 8 10s, but it actually, practically, doesn't work that way. That said, moving air can be about linear travel and cone area, along with box construction and other factors. More smaller woofers in a proper enclosure can perform as well as a larger woofer in a proper enclosure, but it all comes down to the science and a bunch of details. A larger woofer doesn't automatically result in lower resonant frequecies, but it certainly can seem to be the case in the automotive sound market. And the mass argument sounds interesting but doesn't prove true when used to its logical ends. One of our brands includes a dual 21 inch subwoofer that takes 4,500 RMS watts continuous to each driver. They are insane. It's not because each woofer weighs a ton; it's a function of the cone area, linear excursion, enclosure design and other variables. [/QUOTE]
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