By "sonic combo", i meant a combination of gear that adds up to a specific sonic presentation. In your case, it could be possible that your gear adds to the heavy bass that you're hearing.
As far as driver size goes, a smaller driver is NOT necessarily "faster" than a larger driver. This is a very common yet completely inappropriate belief. The "speed" of a driver is determined by driver mass to motor structure ratio, several different electrical characteristics of the driver itself and the bass alignment ( cabinet tuning ) used. While a smaller driver will typically have less cone mass, that's not always the case. Factor in that some smaller drivers have very small motor structures and they could still be "slower" than a bigger cone with a much stronger motor structure.
As a side note, some of the Morel and Dynaudio drivers use HUGE motor structures for their drivers with very lightweight cones. My Brother is using Morel's for his mids and woofers for this reason. His 9" woofers have 3" voice coils, which is as big or bigger than some 12's, 15's and 18's. To top it off, the cone mass on these 9's is about 1/4 that of the typical 10" - 12" woofer. If that's not impressive, the 5" mids that he's using share the same 3" voice coils. This is equivalent to shoving a built 454 into a Vega chassis i.e. massive power to weight ratio. While this makes for potentially excellent transient response, you can't get the extension that you want out of a woofer without mass. As such, he's using subs to fill in the bottom end that these otherwise excellent drivers can't provide. Sean
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As far as driver size goes, a smaller driver is NOT necessarily "faster" than a larger driver. This is a very common yet completely inappropriate belief. The "speed" of a driver is determined by driver mass to motor structure ratio, several different electrical characteristics of the driver itself and the bass alignment ( cabinet tuning ) used. While a smaller driver will typically have less cone mass, that's not always the case. Factor in that some smaller drivers have very small motor structures and they could still be "slower" than a bigger cone with a much stronger motor structure.
As a side note, some of the Morel and Dynaudio drivers use HUGE motor structures for their drivers with very lightweight cones. My Brother is using Morel's for his mids and woofers for this reason. His 9" woofers have 3" voice coils, which is as big or bigger than some 12's, 15's and 18's. To top it off, the cone mass on these 9's is about 1/4 that of the typical 10" - 12" woofer. If that's not impressive, the 5" mids that he's using share the same 3" voice coils. This is equivalent to shoving a built 454 into a Vega chassis i.e. massive power to weight ratio. While this makes for potentially excellent transient response, you can't get the extension that you want out of a woofer without mass. As such, he's using subs to fill in the bottom end that these otherwise excellent drivers can't provide. Sean
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