Could I get custom drivers made by anyone?

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Lots of companies will make custom drivers (almost every company that supplies raw drivers to the diy market, for example), but to get them interested you have to purchase a large volume. Alternatively you could offer to pay for any engineering time and tooling required, but just for example if you wanted a custom cone made, the tooling for that could be $1k or so. When you make 100,000 copies of the speaker using it, it costs a miniscule amount even if you need to make several iterations of the tool, but for just a few parts, obviously it would be pricey.
 
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