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RE: Cones...

Posted by magiccarpetride (A) on March 20, 2012 at 11:42:15

In Reply to: Cones... posted by slapshot on March 18, 2012 at 19:13:46:

I've noticed the trend toward miniaturization in the cones. Many of the relatively high-end boxed speakers I've looked into are sporting surprisingly tiny woofers. A guy I know who specializes in building his own speakers told me that it is desirable to have smaller cones (as small as possible), because less mass == less inertia, meaning easier to control. For the same reason he prefers two way speakers -- less moving parts, easier to conjure up coherent sounding reproduction.

This type of reasoning flies in the face of the Maggies architecture, which boasts an enormous surface dedicated to pushing air. How to control that beast is another can of worms, something that Magneplanar have obviously mastered beyond the scope of us mere amateurs. Which gives them huge competitive advantage.

I'm still trying to sort out why would then high-end boxed speakers be so much more expensive than Maggies. According to my tests, they don't seem to offer many advantages over Maggies (other than perhaps firmer imaging). Many claim that boxed speakers offer superior dynamics, but I'm still waiting for a demo that would convince me of that.

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