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<blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 8166304" data-attributes="member: 560148"><p>Coil area doesn&#039;t work like that.&nbsp; You have to look at length as well as distance around and it&#039;s still not as linear a relationship as your suggesting.&nbsp; Cone area is close, but that&#039;s all thats going to be close here, unless you get&nbsp; a really overbuilt 8.&nbsp; 12&#039;s have deeper baskets allowing for more excursion, can fit bigger coils sometimes much bigger (4inches) and are generally better speakers as well as cheaper.&nbsp; It takes too much extra work to get top tier parts on a 8.&nbsp; An overbuilt 8 is going to run you the same price as a nice 12 and since you need 2x as many, you could have just gotten a sick set of 12&#039;s for a similar price.&nbsp; Unless you can&#039;t fit anything over 11inches tall in your trunk I&#039;d do the 12&#039;s every single time.&nbsp; 2 12&#039;s with a 3inch coil and 20+mm of xmax with good motor force isn&#039;t going to be beaten by 4 8&#039;s in a daily application.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="T3mpest, post: 8166304, member: 560148"] Coil area doesn't work like that. You have to look at length as well as distance around and it's still not as linear a relationship as your suggesting. Cone area is close, but that's all thats going to be close here, unless you get a really overbuilt 8. 12's have deeper baskets allowing for more excursion, can fit bigger coils sometimes much bigger (4inches) and are generally better speakers as well as cheaper. It takes too much extra work to get top tier parts on a 8. An overbuilt 8 is going to run you the same price as a nice 12 and since you need 2x as many, you could have just gotten a sick set of 12's for a similar price. Unless you can't fit anything over 11inches tall in your trunk I'd do the 12's every single time. 2 12's with a 3inch coil and 20+mm of xmax with good motor force isn't going to be beaten by 4 8's in a daily application. [/QUOTE]

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