Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

I don't think your premise is correct.

A bass drum is a tight membrane designed to flex easily, whereas a speaker cone is designed to be a rigid as possible for the frequencies where it will be used. That's the key- these woofers don't experience cone break-up and reduction until they're pushed up into the midrange. At bass frequencies you can consider them to be an almost perfect piston.

There are formulas for how much a given size speaker with a given cabinet alignment must extend to produce the desired SPL. Ported speakers can move quite a bit below port resonance. Some speakers roll off before they get to frequencies requiring large excursions. I'm sure your old speakers can be analyzed as to why they didn't appear to move much, but there are many small woofers which move large volumes of air with minimal distortion.



Edits: 04/20/15

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  • I don't think your premise is correct. - Bry 19:41:10 04/20/15 (0)

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