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GlassWolf wrote:thanks. just made it up :)
thanks for the image. looks lovely. I like these new terminals everyone uses now with posts instead of the old spade terminals.. man I used to hate those things. ugly, wires fell off half the time from resonance, no ay shy of solder to keep em fixed, and did I mention ugly?
I beg of you, have a sexy cone though. I like the simple elegant cone designs like the eclipse Ti has, and even the XXX, if any design is used at all. Nothing gay like kicker et al, with raised fancy designs and explosions etc. bling drives me up a wall, although a little tasteful chrome is always the sex :)

geolemon wrote: Anyway - with the XXX moving right up out of there into an expensive driver (it does look cool), and the Brahma becoming scarcer and scarcer, there's an opportunity I think with an already existing customer market - although we've really technically been targeting the W7 as our benchmark standard, driving a lot of the design, a lot of our modeling comparisons, if you will.

But I'm a longtime JL fan, so maybe I just gravitate that way.

geolemon wrote: Anyway - with the XXX moving right up out of there into an expensive driver (it does look cool), and the Brahma becoming scarcer and scarcer, there's an opportunity I think with an already existing customer market - although we've really technically been targeting the W7 as our benchmark standard, driving a lot of the design, a lot of our modeling comparisons, if you will.

But I'm a longtime JL fan, so maybe I just gravitate that way.

Dan Wiggins wrote:
The ripple comes from pushing excursion as far as possible, plus a few other special sauce things, but it is by no means always present with an XBL^2 driver. If we bumped the motor design a bit more to gain 15mm Xmax or more, then you'd see a ripple start to develop.

ANY nonlinearity of the BL curve will cause a rise in distortion products. Having a BL that drops approximately 2% from the "rest" value leads to around 0.3% THD. If the drop is symmetric in distance and amplitude from rest, then it's pretty much all 2nd order THD as well.

This is one of the actual benefits of XBL^2. A designer can, if desired, allow a certain amount of distortion into the system while gaining more stroke (or a shorter voice coil). In some cases, like musical instrument speakers (guitar cabs, for instance) this is actually a good thing, and you want to add quite a bit of THD (5%+). In other cases, you can allow THD below the limits of audibility, but still measurable, and gain other benefits.