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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RAM_Designs" data-source="post: 6147332" data-attributes="member: 566575">Produce 140db+ below 40hz with a 50 watt amp and I'll be impressed.  Sensitive speakers are no new deal for anyone on here.  We get that home audio is filled with very high sensitivity drivers(like you stated, 100db at 1w/1m is not uncommon).  That's just not how car audio works.  We don't have the room for a tapered horn box for our subs, nor do we have room for waveguides/horns for our tweets(in most cases).Just try and move the kind of air that you see in the high powered setups with the kind of speakers you home audio guys normally use.  And when you do strive for authoritative bass in an ebs type of alignment, most of them run to 18" subs and 1000's of watts(from what I've seen).</blockquote>

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