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<blockquote data-quote="Immacomputer" data-source="post: 5123876" data-attributes="member: 570419"><p>Yea, but for an all out SPL setup, you want as much motor force as possible to get the most acceleration as possible. To get the most motor force, you need a strong motor with a high (BL)^2/Re product and tons of current. Current is directly related to power and the more power a driver can sustain without going into power compression, the more current through the coil, the more motor force, the more acceleration and the more peak pressure generated.</p><p></p><p>For a daily setup, all this power isn't needed to get "loud" as loud is a relative term and loud for an SPL setup is different than loud for a street setup.</p><p></p><p>The problem isn't with the manufacturers but with the people that buy the equipment. People want to use the same equipment for street use that competitors are using for SPL use and end up running tons of power. Those same people could get similar performance out of a more efficient setup but then they wouldn't have the same gear that their competitor heroes use and so their ego would shrink. It used to be the same way in NASCAR back in the 60s where all the common people wanted to drive the same cars that their racing heroes drove and that shot up sales in the sports car industry.</p><p></p><p>Now, we have the same thing going on with buying SPL equipment and the industry knows that's where the money is so they build bigger drivers able to handle more power and market that to the common daily user and now we all think we need that kind of power to get loud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Immacomputer, post: 5123876, member: 570419"] Yea, but for an all out SPL setup, you want as much motor force as possible to get the most acceleration as possible. To get the most motor force, you need a strong motor with a high (BL)^2/Re product and tons of current. Current is directly related to power and the more power a driver can sustain without going into power compression, the more current through the coil, the more motor force, the more acceleration and the more peak pressure generated. For a daily setup, all this power isn't needed to get "loud" as loud is a relative term and loud for an SPL setup is different than loud for a street setup. The problem isn't with the manufacturers but with the people that buy the equipment. People want to use the same equipment for street use that competitors are using for SPL use and end up running tons of power. Those same people could get similar performance out of a more efficient setup but then they wouldn't have the same gear that their competitor heroes use and so their ego would shrink. It used to be the same way in NASCAR back in the 60s where all the common people wanted to drive the same cars that their racing heroes drove and that shot up sales in the sports car industry. Now, we have the same thing going on with buying SPL equipment and the industry knows that's where the money is so they build bigger drivers able to handle more power and market that to the common daily user and now we all think we need that kind of power to get loud. [/QUOTE]
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