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Post Subject: Aura 1808 most overrated 18in driver on the planetPosted by msaudio on: 5/11/2010

Back in the 90's i bought a pair of Aura 1808 woofers and made a set of 24 cubic foot corner enclosures 1 1/2 thick, crossover at 100hz, close to 300 pounds, way over built enclosure with a baffle on the face of the enclosure that i could remove. I Thought it sounded real good and matched the rest of the system ok. Then i was doing a lot of horse trading back then and i came across a pair of hartley 218hz, and a set of jbl 2245. So i deside to do a taste test with the 3 to find out witch set i was going to keep and trade the rest and move on to bigger things. The jbl fit right on the same baffle they were about the same output as the aura and sounded better and lower and not as much distortion, so i was already happy with them to keep. Then i was looking at the hartley woofers and how they were built, they looked real cheap so i did not want to make a differant baffle so i put it off for a few months then i tryed them the first thing i noticed is how clean they sound effortless bass, i could not believe my ears, you could not compare to either the jbl or the aura. couple more months go buy then i thought i would change crossover to altec 500hz that has a pad on it 8 or 16 ohm and put a altec 511 horn with 802D driver on top of enclosure, That was the day i removed my mid horns out of my system because the Hartley had less distortion. Everyone that i played that system for was in shock and could not believe there ears and that was in the 90's. Why the aura woofers donot sound good is because of that heavy cone witch is backward technoligy, aura, jbl and all the rest that have these heavy cones and need more then 600 watts are the A-HOLES of the audio field. Back in the 50's They had already perfected all the woofers and they have gone down hill ever since with a lot of bullshit, it is almost as bad as are government. When will they realize more heavy more power more distortion, it is all about the money, greed form the audio hasbeens. I am back using horns again but i still have my hartley woofers and a few more in a second system. Preaching Horn Religion MSAUDIO

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