Dayton DC28f discrepancy?

Waste of time

A TOTAL waste of time posting this question here. First two pages are uninformed guesses as to why, and all of the following pages are consumed by unrelated posts by a troll. Find your answer over at the forum hosted by Parts Express.

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That's all fine and dandy but, this is suppose to be THE SAME TWEETER.

It's the same tweeter, but measured under different input powers. In the past, the specification was SPL per WATT, however, now specifications are made as 'SPL for an input of 2.83 VOLTS'.

For an 8 ohm load, applying 2.83 Volts causes 1 Watt to be dissipated. Because the tweeter has a 4 ohm nominal voice coil, at 2.83 V input you are actually dissipating a couple of Watts, therefore compared to the 1 Watt SPL the 2.83 V SPL will be higher. Hopefully this is what PE explained to you.
 
It's the same tweeter, but measured under different input powers. In the past, the specification was SPL per WATT, however, now specifications are made as 'SPL for an input of 2.83 VOLTS'.

For an 8 ohm load, applying 2.83 Volts causes 1 Watt to be dissipated. Because the tweeter has a 4 ohm nominal voice coil, at 2.83 V input you are actually dissipating a couple of Watts, therefore compared to the 1 Watt SPL the 2.83 V SPL will be higher. Hopefully this is what PE explained to you.

WTF??

Not even close as to why

It was a 8 ohm tweet before and an 8 ohm tweet now.
 
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So...by that thinking and by looking at the DC160-8 specs by comparison, which are accurate, they must have measured this one from inside the dust cover on the cone.

From the DC160-8 .frd file.........

Standardized FRD file, measured by OmniMic "146122014.omm" on 6/18/2014 by userID:
Equivalent to driven with 2.83V and measured at 1m
Acoustic origin is 99.23useconds behind the mounting plane.

Simply put, NO ONE has a clue and this is all speculation.

Besides, I have the new .frd file from PE so this is all academic. PE will replace the .frd file on their website soon.