Jack Gilvey
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Good question. What is it that we'd change about the Blueprint -03 series, for example?
How much Xmax you want? Our new XBL2 motor technology can pretty much give you as much linear Xmag as you want... How about a 15" driver with 30+mm of linear Xmax, and an Fs down around 20 Hz?
I don't have to think all that long about that one, Dan...OK. Got any preliminary specs we can play with?
Im not Jack Gilvey, but....
Lucky man...
Aww, shucks... That's what running a few hundred thousand models and fully spec'ing out the driver goals before it's designed will do. I think we nailed it pretty good, too, to create a "generic" driver that works well in most applications.Quote:
So, a Tempest/Shiva with 30+mm of Xmax? That can be done without any real effort - it's trivial to get Xmax any more. But what else would you (or anyone else) want to see?
Well, since my professed "holy grail" has been granted in the course of one morning, I'm at something of a loss.
I mean, I love the way those drivers model. If I were going to change something, I'd like smaller boxes for given alignments (almost certainly using PR's) and more output/Vd/Pe, without losing much sensitivity. It'd be nice to have a driver that just can't be bottomed, even when at Xsus/Xmech. Some kind of "soft-bottoming" arrangement.
A driver optimised for IB use might be fun, if limited in market. Although, as I've stated before, a Tempest or Shiva (possibly incorporating RDO) comes pretty damn close to ideal, more excursion always being nice.
While we're at it, I'd also like a true full-range driver, flat from 80Hz-20kHz, kind of an improved Diatone, with lots of sensitivity. A nice,flat 8-ohm impedance would be in order, of course.