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Elliot Thompson
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I don't recall saying it was a negative thing to push the boundaries in any field. This is what I stated,
As I mentioned previously, I don't recall calling a company or companies little in any shape size and form. Nor, did I say that their products are not warranted. If it is a lack of understanding on your behalf regards to my reply all you need to do is ask. The little guys or those just getting in the business push their system harder because they usually find themselves in a situation where they do not have enough Rig for the Gig. The mature guys generally do not push their systems hard for they carry enough Rig for the Gig.
The driver in question offers a Q of 0.14 so rightfully so you are going to need heavy equalisation in order to attain low frequency extension in a reflex box. If you are going to take a driver with a Q of 0.14, install it in reflex box, and place it in a corner, you will lower the chances of using a lot of equalisation. Add the room gain in the equation, it is pretty much ideal for Home Audio. However, in Professional Audio, we cannot rely on corners or room gain to help extend the bass response. We can only rely on the ground the sub cabinet resides on when we are hired to reinforce sound at various venues. The driver in question would be ideal for a horn however this is the Bass Reflex forum so my comments are solely based on Bass Reflex designs.
This is where you and differ greatly on how we would operate our sound systems. The driver in question offers a 2 ohm nominal load with a Re of 1.3 ohms. This tells me instantly that any amplifier that offers a 2 ohm load minimum in stereo mode is going to be under severe pressure driving such a load. Headroom is what many of us quest for when we select an amplifier to drive our loudspeakers. I am one out of the few that goes a step further by making sure the driver's nominal load is not the same as the amplifier's minimum load. So the only amplifier I can think of that would offer a minimum load lower than the 2 ohm load of the driver in question would be the Crown Macro-Tech configured to Parallel-Mono. Parallel-Mono on Crown Macro-Tech amplifiers offers a 1 ohm minimum load. That is the only way I can think of not running my amplifiers ragged using woofers offering a 2 ohms nominal load. As I stated in a previous post,
Best Regards, Edited by Elliot Thompson - 26 May 2017 at 11:52am |
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