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Five or six inches of excursion?
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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8140150" data-attributes="member: 655960"><p>I'd really have to audition one of those subs in a box, with music playing, in person before I could make a sound judgement. But... the mere fact that none of those videos show one of those woofers in a box playing music tells us a lot. It looks cool in free air but on the descending slope tone it also looks like it's unloading pretty bad toward the end.</p><p></p><p>My thoughts initially are that these things don't perform well on music and if they do, they'd just about have to be dedicated to very low frequencies only. I'm not saying it can't work but I am saying that nothing they've offered leads me to believe this is anything more than a novelty product with no practical use.</p><p></p><p>In the end, loudspeaker manufacturers (like any other manufacturer) have pretty much reached the "sweet spot" between performance and economics with what we have today. Sure, you can have more excursion but to get it the cost rises much more quickly than performance. Especially when you consider the amount of headroom an amplifier needs to keep tabs on that much movement.</p><p></p><p>But hey, ten years from now two inches of xmax might be considered child's play...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8140150, member: 655960"] I'd really have to audition one of those subs in a box, with music playing, in person before I could make a sound judgement. But... the mere fact that none of those videos show one of those woofers in a box playing music tells us a lot. It looks cool in free air but on the descending slope tone it also looks like it's unloading pretty bad toward the end. My thoughts initially are that these things don't perform well on music and if they do, they'd just about have to be dedicated to very low frequencies only. I'm not saying it can't work but I am saying that nothing they've offered leads me to believe this is anything more than a novelty product with no practical use. In the end, loudspeaker manufacturers (like any other manufacturer) have pretty much reached the "sweet spot" between performance and economics with what we have today. Sure, you can have more excursion but to get it the cost rises much more quickly than performance. Especially when you consider the amount of headroom an amplifier needs to keep tabs on that much movement. But hey, ten years from now two inches of xmax might be considered child's play... [/QUOTE]
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