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Knightcrawler wrote:

The 1808 in a vented box produces some of the best bass I've ever heard. I know some have a beef with vented enclosures but when designed right the sound can be brilliant. I've heard plenty of sealed, vented, bandpass and horn loaded designs. The 1808 is pretty tremendous in a well design enclsure and a powerful amp. A neighbor has two Wilson XS and loves them, they sound great for classical music and movies. The ports are to small for the design but the sound quality didn't seem to suffer from it.

Knightcrawler, well we basically agree that the 1808 was a wonderful driver. Let keep our views about the cones and pros of the ported enclosure out of the thread. It was the “best bass you've ever heard” but you did not hear the 1808 identically well implemented in appropriate sealed enclosure, didn’t you? Also, I have to give to the Wilson XS some credit as the ported enclosure if you cross them very low (25Hz for instance) do not manifest many negative characteristic as there is not sound in there anymore but juts pressure. BTW, do you know that Wilson use the 1808 on few reiterations of their Whow subwoofer.  I believe they have 4 versions and one of them was made with 1808. Do I have to say that it sounded way more interesting then Whow usually did?

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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