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In the Thread: Exceptional loudspeakers drivers
Post Subject: I would disagree.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/6/2006
 Knightcrawler wrote: |
| The 1808 was designed for a large vented enclosure. Just looking at the TS numbers would indicate a large vented box to be best. It also worked well in horn loaded designs as well. |
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I did not says what it was designed for I said that “required enormous sealed enclosure”. I disagree with entire concept of recognition of T/S recognition in order the driver “to be best vented box”. How a driver could be at ”it’s best” if the ported enclosures do not produce acceptable sound? Also, Knightcrawler, the 18” throat with 2.5” max-to-max excursion? What link of horn you have in your mind? The only place where the 1808 was use were the shallow pro horns where the speakers “looked like horn” but essentially acted as direct radiators at lower frequency. Anyhow, I would personally never put the 1808 in a horn, regardless the side of the room (stadium).
| Knightcrawler wrote: |
| PS: The wilson Audio XS was a great subwoofer just completely overpriced. |
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Hm, I have to disagree with everything? Right? It was not necessarily overprized. It cost $18.000. A pair of drivers is $2.000, a well made <30 x <30 x >80 enclosure is ~$3.000, making it $5.000 all together. 50-60% of the dealer mark up is 10.000 and $14.000 -$15.000 all together. Add here the marketing expenses, transpiration cost, replacement and warranty cervices and it would not look like a lot of money left. Of course it is expansive from a different perspective (a person need 2 subwoofers) but those type of objective must be expensive. My major beef with Audio XS that if person do go for this level of demands and pays such a huge amount of money for subwoofers, dedicated amplification and space on his/her room then the person deserve to have more interesting result then a ported enclosure of XS is cable to deliver. So, I would not call the EX overpriced but rather unreasonably designed.
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
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