Skunk wrote: > Why do people design subs with the driver pointed down? Wouldn't it > make them slower to return from driver excursions, again I suppose it > doesn't matter if you're reproducing explosions mostly. I'm not saying > you think it's the ideal situation Pat, I just noticed you brought it > up.
I really don't know, I just buy them, not design them. But the cone material is very light. Light and stiff is the goal. Nearly all the weight in any driver is the big honking magnet. And with any signal, the electro magnet is pulling the voice coil (and cone with it) up. I would expect (again pure speculation) that the impact of gravity is pretty modest. Several vendors talk about 'servo control' which I take to mean some formal feedback control that applies corrective power to the voicecoil to make it have better control. I think they point down because that keeps the driver away from little kids and dogs pushing on it. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
