Or at least accurate enough to use what it says for anything real world?
I've seen this discussed before, but am not sure if the answers were more peoples opinions, than real world experience.
Basically, I'm wanting to keep a woofer within safe limits, when exceeding its power rating, and want to know if I can trust WinISD enough.
Thanks!
I've seen this discussed before, but am not sure if the answers were more peoples opinions, than real world experience.
Basically, I'm wanting to keep a woofer within safe limits, when exceeding its power rating, and want to know if I can trust WinISD enough.
Thanks!
It is as accurate as the driver model is. If the driver model doesn't represent real life very well, neither will the results. Woofers are pretty trivial to model, for chambered midranges, tweeters and such, it can get iffy.
If you want it to be dead accurate then you should measure the Thiele/Small parameters of the driver you have rather than rely on the manufacturers T/S model.
If you want it to be dead accurate then you should measure the Thiele/Small parameters of the driver you have rather than rely on the manufacturers T/S model.
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