Check out JL Audio's new W7 series subs. They're for car audio, but they're very well designed (unlike most car audio stuff), and have huge Xmax. I havn't heard the W7 series yet, but even their lowly W0 series subs sound quite good.
Check out SB acoustics 12 inch 4 ohm driver. It has a generous 14 mm excursion and excellent choice for sealed sub
Zombie post.
In 2001, 21 years ago, calling 14mm excursion "generous" would be understandable.
Not in 2022.
The SVS SB16-Ultra has 65mm Xmax.
Good call on the Date
I did not notice at first
I was thinking in my head
" Dont you know there is dual spider drivers with 60 to 70 mm Xmax these days "
I find it ridiculous ,
But hey, everyone is welcome to have fun with whatever they want to throw their wallet at
I found the 2nd post to be more sensible.
If you really need that much excursion , just use 2 drivers
I did not notice at first
I was thinking in my head
" Dont you know there is dual spider drivers with 60 to 70 mm Xmax these days "
I find it ridiculous ,
But hey, everyone is welcome to have fun with whatever they want to throw their wallet at
I found the 2nd post to be more sensible.
If you really need that much excursion , just use 2 drivers
The amount of non-linearity is insane with high excursion drivers. I have yet to hear a good example that actually can play "music" well instead of just sound effects.
You are correct.
SVS states a 13.3mm Xmax for the SB-1000 Pro, which appears to align with CEA-2010-A peak output/distortion tests from multiple sources compiled by @sweetchaos in his Subwoofer Comparison.
A bit less than half the 65mm peak to peak excursion (65/2=32.5mm seems to correlate with the SVS SB16 Ultra's CEA-2010-A "pass" at 20 Hz, around 102/103dB at 2meters ground plane when adding +6dB to make up the difference between 2meters and one:
CEA-2010 is an industry standard first published in 2006 (updated as CEA-2010-A in 2012) that specifies a method for measuring maximum SPL before distortion reaches a "fail" level at various frequencies, requiring progressively less high order distortion to "pass".
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...fyBjaxK69dkXte6ZL6anVTW2_M/edit#gid=834598950
The SVS SB16's 20 Hz output appears to be around equal to Josh Riccis Data Bass CEA-2010-A measurements of the 21" (16.5mm Xvar) B&C21D115 in a sealed box.
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