Posted by theNoid [ 68.157.46.247 ] on September 13, 2005 at 04:41:40:

In Reply to: Re: Driver Size Thoughts posted by Wayne Parham on September 13, 2005 at 02:09:29:

> I'll bet the situation is really extreme for car sound woofers
> and other high excursion designs. As excursion limits go up,
> surround size does too. So once you get past that monster surround,
> there's a lot of meat taken out of the potential radiating area.

This, and an evenbigger problem is that many companies are using those fat surrounds on drivers that simply aren't needed. Thus, you end up with a low Xmax driver to begin with, then you take up much of the Sd via that big old "phat" surround. But hey, it looks kewl and regardless of what the eduactaed folks think, the buying masses base most of their decisions on looks it seems.

Noidster

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