how much can a recone do?

[Maxipads 10+ year member]

I just wondering how much does a recone actually do.... comparing a recone from fi or let's say gettiing a custom recone frfom psi with more spiders and what not..would one offer more power hanlding?

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[rosrock 10+ year member]

talk to robot underground, 100 shipped for recones.

 

[Maxipads 10+ year member]

I've heard to many bad sgtories about robot... and that doesn't any where help my question

 

[ahole-ic]

Assuming the coil fits, the spider fits, and the cone is the right size, the t/s parameters can be drastically different. For instance if you put a fully loaded BTL recone in a RE SE, it will fit but it won't perform as desired because the soft parts are made for a stronger motor. Usually people that are able to take different parts and build up a different woofer understand how each part affects the others and they are able to compensate to make a workable woofer. It's very easy to build a woofer that is all wrong. It could have an extremely high fs and not have much low end at all. It could have very low fs which usually means high moving mass and not enough motor force to compensate. If you don't know what does what, sending it to PSI will be a good although costly choice.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

It just depends on your application and what your goals are. PSi can give you more options that standard Fi stuff, but there isn't anything inherently wrong with either one of them.

 

[Maxipads 10+ year member]

Thanks e crack. Would different recones cause higher power handling? Or does it all depends on motor strength

 

[ahole-ic]

Thanks e crack. Would different recones cause higher power handling? Or does it all depends on motor strength

Changing the recone can cause higher power handling and probably a loss of efficiency over stock in almost every case.

 

[SPLaudio 5,000+ posts]

depends the woofer. if your taking a daily woofer and wanting it more geared towards spl you sure can make it louder. i took a se 10" and made it 1.9dbs louder on the same power and reconed it to the same impedence. of course the stock sub didnt like 3000rms much,lol.