Identical Survace Area ≠ Identical Sonic Performance
Difference in excursions, materials, execution, etc make a difference.
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This post misses the biggest point in the argument of woofer size, and that’s the room. I had a speaker that sounded great in a 27’ dedicated room, but over powered my new 16’ room. My new speakers have multiple 6.5” woofers which provided almost all the clean bass I wanted, but adding a couple of Rel subs using an 8” driver with a 10” passive radiator provides the bass that I used to have in the larger room. If I would ever build another large dedicated room, my speaker would have many 6.5” woofers or a few 8” woofers with multiple rel subs, maybe even using Rels line array of subwoofers. |
The two 6.75 woofers in my B&W 803 D3 in my room did not produce enough bass to sound satisfying. Adding a pair of JL Audio powered subs took care of that, delivering clean, quick, natural-sounding lower octaves that blend seamlessly with the higher octaves. Careful integration with adjustments of X-over frequency, phase, polarity, and level yielded excellent results. |
Submitted ’cuz the doors are left open around here, and yet another ’girth truth or dare’ expo... *L* pi x ( .5 + 2.5 ) x 7.25 = 68.33 ; it’s the way the cone gets excited that makes a Walsh work its’ magic with a 6.5 basket. The trick is to xover to a sub when the cone goes pistonic, bass requiring sheer air movement to create those lower and naturally omni frequencies in nature. Vertical alignment with a tweet based on the Infinity 'ice cream cone', a pair of which I used to own with the towers it lived atop. Had it's moments, but still sounded 'restrained' to my earlier ears... It does require a magnet structure matched to a really robust voice coil that can shrug off heat.... But they’re out there. 👍 Quixotic perhaps, but beats windmills. Reverb bathing.... 😏 Love it or leave it. ;) Appropo for tomorrow. Go hang with your neighbors and make some noise. |
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