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<blockquote data-quote="squeak9798" data-source="post: 1345249" data-attributes="member: 555320"><p>Depends. Hoffman's Iron Law....you can only have <em>two</em> of the following three:</p><p></p><p>1) Low frequency extension</p><p></p><p>2) Small enclosure</p><p></p><p>3) High efficiency</p><p></p><p>So, you can see that, by default, as you increase sensitivity you must either increase enclosure size or decrease your low frequency extension. No way around it.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully you can see why most car audio subwoofers have such low efficiency figures. For car audio, we want good low frequency extension out of a small package....and therefore, efficiency must inherently suffer.</p><p></p><p>So, higher sensitivity isn't <em>necessarily</em> or <em>inherently</em> always a good thing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Depends on your goals and application</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squeak9798, post: 1345249, member: 555320"] Depends. Hoffman's Iron Law....you can only have [I]two[/I] of the following three: 1) Low frequency extension 2) Small enclosure 3) High efficiency So, you can see that, by default, as you increase sensitivity you must either increase enclosure size or decrease your low frequency extension. No way around it. Hopefully you can see why most car audio subwoofers have such low efficiency figures. For car audio, we want good low frequency extension out of a small package....and therefore, efficiency must inherently suffer. So, higher sensitivity isn't [I]necessarily[/I] or [I]inherently[/I] always a good thing [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] Depends on your goals and application [/QUOTE]
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