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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bass_lover1" data-source="post: 3110449" data-attributes="member: 555256">There's trade offs between Neo and your basic Ferrite mags.Neo comparatively speaking size wise, is one of the strongest magnets known to man.  But it also has it's draw backs, it's a bit more rare thus making it slightly more costly.  Every magnet has a curie point, that when heated past this, loses some of it's magnetic properties, Neodymium has a much lower curie point than regular ferrite, and since we're talking speakers here 80c probably isn't hard to achieve inside the gap.  Also, Neo is extremely fragile, it chips easy, and believe it or not the pieces that have been chipped off neo magnets have been known to pierce skin.</blockquote>

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