[Empeg-ice] Re: Install pics updated

[Douglas Burnside]

Hmmm...  5.25" and calling it a subwoofer.  

Sally, what are some of the specs on those speakers?  Particularly frequency response.  Will they give you what you want in the 20-50Hz range?

On my new install, I went from a single 10" sub to a pair of 10" subs installed in a common enclosure, just so I could get my cone area up to around 160 square inches in order to drop my lowest attainable frequencies down to the 20-30 Hz range.  It wasn't a matter of power, or volume, or punch or anything like that.  It's just that, as a general rule, small cone area means loss of low frequency response.  When that pipe organ in the Albinoni Adagio starts rumbling, you want speakers that can go almost subsonic.  I would go with 10" subs in undersized boxes before I went so small as 5.25".  But, I haven't seen nor heard your speakers, and it's quite possible they are working some technical magic I am unaware of.  The only thing that counts is this:  Are you happy with them?

tanstaafl.

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