Stamped steel or cast basket?

[Decado2 10+ year member]

Whats the difference between the two, or, pro's and con's . I am building some cheap beaters out of a couple of TC 7 motors, I am wondering if it will matter which basket I use for them.

The subs will go into my sorry excuse of a HT //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif , I will likely have to get some boxes built for them.

So I am wondering what all the baskets have to do with the performance of the sub (if at all), I want to go ahead with a couple of stamped baskets because they are cheaper and easier to mount, I almost lost a finger installing the hybrid Konaki's I built a while back thanks to those 12 spoke baskets //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif .

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[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Cast frames tend to be stronger, more rigid. Stamped steel will bend, the cast tend to take more to break... but they do not bend, they break. The cast also tend to be aluminum, which helps dissipate heat (put some heat transfer goo between motor and frame when assembling... same stuff used on computer CPU's + cooling heatsink). Lastly, usually the cast frames have greater excursion clearance, as most manufacturers dont go with stamped frames for long excursion drivers.

 

[Decado2 10+ year member]

Hey, thanks for your detailed response man, exactly the info I was looking for. These subs will not be seeing that much power, for now, about 100 rms each.

They will not be high excursion either, so , for what I am going to use these subs for the steel will do.

Thanks again Audioholic //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif