Shane Gosling wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 06:29 |
Interesting Pics, I had 4x Kappa Pro in peavey DTH concert subs (we got the cabs unloaded) years ago all the edges cracked around the cone one by one.
I put it down to not being able to withstand coming out the van in cold weather then being powered up. I also thought at first it was over excursion but we only put 1000w a side to them and nothing under 40hz with steep roll-of. To Be honest i never thought of eminence being all that reliable, but that was prob due to what happened with the concert subs. Have you guys considered what a lab sub would sound like if JBL/RCF etc were to make the special driver? My thoughts it would be tighter and more reliable?
Thanks
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In general I have to disagree.
Eminence has a "cheap" reputation from selling people millions of inexpensive drivers over the years. It does not mean they can't build as good a driver as anyone else.
As to failure rates ALL the speaker manufacturers go through this. If I remember correctly the "K" series for JBL was fragile. They sounded wonderful for the 2 minutes they worked and then self-destructed. Beyond that line they have had factory defect based failures in other lines.
EV has gone through the same thing. I never kept track of RCF, but I would bet the same.
There is nothing wrong with EV or JBL. This is something that happens when you make a large number of anything.
The key is if they stand behind it and change the product if there is an inherent flaw.
As for the statement that a JBL or RCF would sound "tighter" that is obvious brand loyalty with no basis in fact. They can only sound "tighter" if you find a better set of T/S values to put in the box that Tom Danley designed and good luck on that.
All that being said there we should keep Eminence's feet to the fire on any factory defects.
We should continue to communicate on any failures.
And lastly we need to keep in mind that this design is NOT bullet-proof or magic and that we will break it on a regular basis if we don't learn its limits.
These boxes are like a lot of other good sounding boxes. You can push them into dangerous output and they still sound good. It makes it impossible to tell by ear how much they can take.
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