Eric Coulter....
"one of the motors had loosened up while in my application and it was ****ed to the side effecting the travel of the assembly! As you can imagine this kills the output of the driver, yet it was still capcable of tieing my old Sigs"
Now explain to me how the neo and 04 sig are the same... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smash.gif.499e08a4a35ffaf54f4c8194fb8fe8ed.gif
A motor being loose wont affect travel, it still moves the same amount. However, if the motor moved he woulda had baked coils from where they rubbed. There isn't more than a 1-2mm gap between the coil and motor. If I remember correctly, Eric Coulter was not using sigs, he was using Death Penalties or MT's (can't remember which).
They are the same in that if you take the specs of the motor in terms of flux strenth, location, and saturation, they are identical. As was stated in that link, the neo motor is no more stronger than the strontium (I think is what that uses). Neo has simply got more magnetic strenth for a given size.
Anywho, if your theory is correct, explain this: At SBN, Steve Nelson swapped his DD 9915's for DP15's and gained 1.5 dB. Right after SBN, Justin Thornton swapped his DD 9515's for DP15's and LOST 2 dB. That is 3.5 dB difference, both were in midsize SUV's, both had similar boxes, both had about the same power. Still not a believer? Dave Jennings at dB Drag finals swapped his WGTI12's (yes, JBL) for TRF12's (Team RF 12's) using a JBL 6000GTI on each sub (definitely ample power) and he lost 5 dB. The TRF's SHOULD be a better sub, why'd he lose so much? The box was setup for the JBL's, not the TRF's. Oh wait, thats the INSTALL.