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Ivan Beaver

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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2017, 05:10:35 PM »

The SDL Contra Bass used the dual 15" with dual 18" passive radiators.
Yeah, that one was the exception.

All of the others were horn loaded.

I believe the contrabass was developed to "talk to elephants" so it had to fit in the back of a jeep.

It later found favor for home listening.
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2017, 11:41:14 PM »

About the only thing is has in common with the servodrive is that the driver is round and it produces sound.  It pretty much stops there.

Both share a non-conventional method of driving the round thing that produces sound.

Every few years my client Byron Lee (RIP) would have me order belts for his SDL subs. Anything wear out on the PSoft ?
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2017, 06:32:07 AM »

Anything wear out on the PSoft ?

Shouldn't do. It operates on a similar principle to a normal speaker, except it's the magnet that's being moved. That means you can bolt the voicecoil to a big ol' heatsink and drop 10KW into it.
Not really worth doing for smaller cones (moving coils propel those just fine) up to, say, 21". Past that, moving magnet seems to be the way to do it.

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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2017, 07:28:54 AM »

Both share a non-conventional method of driving the round thing that produces sound.

Every few years my client Byron Lee (RIP) would have me order belts for his SDL subs. Anything wear out on the PSoft ?
So if we are going to go that route, I guess you could add piezo tweeters and "maybe" old (and some new) field coil speakers to the list, if "different" is the thing that makes them "common".
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2017, 03:13:16 PM »

Both share a non-conventional method of driving the round thing that produces sound.

Sorry to ruffle your feathers Ivan but I am clearly referring to alternate methods of driving the piston used for subs.
Maybe Tom could comment intelligently
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2017, 03:29:29 PM »

The SDL Contra Bass used the dual 15" with dual 18" passive radiators.
I heard one of these "back in the day" and was VERY impressed!
As for the Gravity30, I saw published specs of response and output but, once again, no frequency defined relationship  ::)
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2017, 05:09:24 PM »

Sorry to ruffle your feathers Ivan but I am clearly referring to alternate methods of driving the piston used for subs.
Maybe Tom could comment intelligently
OK, they both use a piston.

But how that piston is driven has nothing in common-other than an audio signal.

And just to be clear- you did NOT say anything about subs.  You said a round thing that produces sound.  I gave examples of that.

I'm sorry if I insulted you, but I was just answering the "question" as it was presented.

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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2017, 10:28:00 AM »

The patent for the M-FORCE https://www.google.com/patents/WO2011125083A1?cl=en
And here is the technology behind it that had allowed it to perform as it does
http://www.powersoft-audio.com/en/docman/993-us-patent-improvements-to-systems-for-acoustic-diffusion/file

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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2017, 02:25:10 PM »

hey

well, to maybe meet somewhere in the middle I'd say it's a little similar to servodrive in that as you say Ivan, they're both piston like system to move the cone.

Very different i execution though, as (again as Ivan says) servodrive were a belt motor type system, where as this would be a bit closer o a solenoid.

On a traditional speaker it is a moving voice coil inside a fixed magnet. The voice coil had to be pretty thin and lightweight to make sure the cone can move at the required speed, which of course limits how much current can be put into it before it goes pop.

On the other hand, M-force as said flips this around and its the traditional magnet that is the moving part, and the voice coil the fixed part wrapping around it.

This means it can be as big and bulky as needed, with nice big heat sinks, and LOTS more current can be thrown at it.  This then makes cone weight less of an issue as it has the current, and hence motor force, to move much heavier weights. So I'm sure there is a 24", 30" and even 40" cone available that are made from a lightweight plastic rather than paper, so they're super rigid and can push a LOT of air at very high pressure.

K
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2017, 04:43:18 PM »

hey

well, to maybe meet somewhere in the middle I'd say it's a little similar to servodrive in that as you say Ivan, they're both piston like system to move the cone.

Very different i execution though, as (again as Ivan says) servodrive were a belt motor type system, where as this would be a bit closer o a solenoid.

On a traditional speaker it is a moving voice coil inside a fixed magnet. The voice coil had to be pretty thin and lightweight to make sure the cone can move at the required speed, which of course limits how much current can be put into it before it goes pop.

On the other hand, M-force as said flips this around and its the traditional magnet that is the moving part, and the voice coil the fixed part wrapping around it.

This means it can be as big and bulky as needed, with nice big heat sinks, and LOTS more current can be thrown at it.  This then makes cone weight less of an issue as it has the current, and hence motor force, to move much heavier weights. So I'm sure there is a 24", 30" and even 40" cone available that are made from a lightweight plastic rather than paper, so they're super rigid and can push a LOT of air at very high pressure.

K

The fundamental difference is the use of a rotary servo motor and the belt linear motion transformer.

Pistonic transducers, in and of themselves, are not unique.
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Re: PK Sound Gravity 30 Subwoofer
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