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doing this myself. small company out here ran a bunch of fiber in my area. 50/month for 20/5 mb/s. I"m getting over 30/7 in my area with comcast...also a few years back I had cricket wireless that was not to bad for the price..Also head clearwire download was ok but upload was shit..But for the value you couldn't complain.. i could have gotten comcast cable but you'll never see full speed during peak hours.

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I saw no gain with changing mine to direct leads.

There is great debate on using small signal parameters for heavy damped, high xmax subwoofers, and for obvious reasons once the differences are show. For example my Ethos sample has a Fo of about 38 hertz and a vas of about 14 liters @ 2.83 volts. With this small signal the cone moves less than 1 mm. Now at 40 volts, within it's normal working range, it has a Fo of about 28 hertz and a vas of about 21 liters. Given this info we can conclude that if we were going to build an enclosure with a particular response using small signal parameters it's not going to perform as intended in the real world under normal stroke. Both Klippel and Vance Dickason recommends modeling using large signal parameters. Every driver that Vance tests and simulates he does so using 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 20, and 25 volts. You can clearly see the differences in spl vs Freq and Excursion vs Freq from small to large signal shown in his graphs. Progressive spiders do play an audible roll but I highly doubt the untrained ear would be able to tell the difference. And most would say it creates a more desirable warmer sound. Most engineers will use a spider with a slightly higher creep factor to control cone movement in ported alignments. However most companies' drivers you see are not progressive. Just because their spiders have smaller ridges by the former than the spider landing does not make it progressive. I use a progressive spider that has a sharp "v" ridge towards the outside of the spider that is a "breaking mechanism" for lack of a better term at the spiders xmax (50% cms is considered 20% distortion caused by the suspension including the edge).

Really? The small signal params are still enough for enclosure modeling. The change will not be "great" enough to affect enclosure design for anything other than extreme SPL use. Again, Really? "A heavier glue joint, slight imperfection in the spiders." Not detectable by ear, MAYBE measureable by precise measuring equipment. Not enough to affect anything.

Here we go again. IT's funny as you made the blanket statement about the Axis. Now you've been proven wrong and want to spin stuff. Nobody said enlosure dictates everything, IT is by far the largest contribution to the performance of the driver aside from the driver itself. IT's also funny as you state, "I love how everyone is saying there's so much fail yet do nothing to inform people," yet you misinform them with your OPINION, and you even state it as your OPINION. It can be measured as fact and not opinion. You're wrong, you made a mistake, worded what your meant to say incorrectly, or just had a brain fart. We all know the enclosure does not dictate everything, but you OPINION that you can change it will no ill effects is just wrong.

Myth Busted Same enclosure, same power. Axis clearly doesn't dig lower. Axis shows less than 1db more peak which isn't going to be audible. Oh, and since "you don't care about the enclosure, the Axis will dig deeper, the enclosure dictates everything is a myth"......couldn't be more wrong. Obviously not the same enclosure, but THAT'S THE POINT, THE ENCLOSURE AFFECTS THE PERFORMANCE.

This is true.If you smoke crack. So many holes in this, I don'y even know where to start filling in. Here's the problem with the internet.

SQL is an actual term. It's frowned upon because hardcore SQ guys think it's SQ or GTFO. Not true. There's actually competition format around SQL, using install, sheer loudness, blending, response ect. Absolutely one driver will sound better than another. I don't give a shit how you build the box. Put a XCON against a tc sounds axis and I guarantee the axis will dig lower. The xcon will probably offer more sheer loudness of course. This whole enclosure dictates everything simply isn't true. Just because a driver is "playing" a certain freq, doesn't mean it's doing it the right way. You can tune N3's to 30 hz and play low notes all day but that doesn't mean it's going to sound good or sound right. An SP4 will most likely sound much better, maybe not as loud on the meter but definitely sound better. Most people don't know how lows should actually sound. Most people think because it's playing a low note then it's a good driver for low end extension.

Myth Busted Same enclosure, same power. Axis clearly doesn't dig lower. Axis shows less than 1db more peak which isn't going to be audible. Oh, and since "you don't care about the enclosure, the Axis will dig deeper, the enclosure dictates everything is a myth"......couldn't be more wrong. Obviously not the same enclosure, but THAT'S THE POINT, THE ENCLOSURE AFFECTS THE PERFORMANCE. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's WinSD It knows everyyyyythingggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Based on WinSD My stock UFO's should have been .5db (at peak)more quite than the custom TC5200's I used. The UFO's were 2.1db louder @ peak freq of 44hz. 1db louder @35hz and .5db more quite @31hz. While the UFO's were louder overall, they lacked the low end extension offered by the 5200's. The frequency transition of the 5200s was much better overall but had a steep roll off around 45-47hz Even tuned low, the UFO's were still very peaky in my opinion. Plain and simple, enclosure does not dictate everything. Just because a given sub is louder at a lower frequency, doesn't mean it sounds better or plays lower. I kept my previous post simple but you guys obviously completely missed the point... WinSD is great and has its place but is far from 80% accurate in real world. Obviously each situation changes and dictates how a driver will preform. I love how everyone is saying there's so much fail yet do nothing to inform people. That in itself is fail.

If something is a myth, doesn't that mean it's not true.....which is what you said? T/S change with coil position and heat due to changes in Bl, Cms and Re. I don't see any reason to expect the Axis to perform substantially better in this arena....They both use overhung motors, aluminum coils and shorting rings. But the Xcon has much higher rated Xmax, actually twice as much, which means it's Bl is more than likely going to be just as much if not more linear at any level of excursion, becoming more linear compared to the Axis as we move closer to the Xmax of the Axis and much more linear as we exceed it. So I don't see any reason to expect the Xcon to experience more of a variance in Bl vs excursion than the Axis and a couple reasons to believe it would actually be more linear especially if we push to the 15mm+ excursion range. In regards to Cms, with the linear suspension design of the Axis Cms might measure more linear than the Xcon's progressive but many argue (such as Vance Dickason in the LSDC) a progressive spider is better suited for loudspeakers intended to be used in a ported enclosure than linear designs. Power compression...the Xcon has higher rated Rms power handling, again almost twice as much which would lead me to believe at any power level the Xcon is going to be experiencing less power compression and more linear Re vs Power, leading to less parameter shift vs input power. Overall, I don't see any reason to expect the Axis to perform significantly better than the Xcon in parameter shift vs input power and/or parameter shift vs coil position, and a couple reasons to expect the Xcon to actually perform better in this regard. So yet again, I fail to see any logic that supports your original statement where you guaranteed the Axis to "dig lower" than the Xcon, including your new found argument about large vs small signal performance. And yes, there is a variance in T/S unit-to-unit due to production differences. But when was the last time you purchased two of the exact same units and experienced an audible difference in performance due to production variance related differences in T/S? The point is, in any driver with reasonably good soft parts and a reasonable QC program in place, the differences are going to be inaudible. The specs you looked at are wrong. You must be looking at the specs on PE, which show the axis measured xmax by 100% method, not 70% method. Xcon 15 31mm, axis 34mm Had you looked up the proper specs, most of this could have been avoided. I never said myth. I said that enclosures don't dictate everything. http://tcsounds.com/product/drivers/axis-driver/ Everything armykyle1 has said on here is 100% correct.

The BTL N3 is the loudest I know of, if you know of a louder one post the specs.. SPL@1w1m is a good estimate of how loud the subwoofer is.. Spl@1w1m already factors in cone are but doesn't factor in gains from a box and cabin gain.. Also like I was saying the FS as a rule is a good indicator of how the subwoofer willl preform. A low FS subwoofer will almost always have a lower frequency then a higher FS subwoofer.. XMAX also must be looked at SPL subwoofers generally have larger XMAX then SQ subwoofers.SPL@1w1m+RMS power will give you a good idea of how loud a subwoofer can be if installed ina proper box.

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