I love how you have a Mr.Rodgers entrance with mellow musical background. It’s awesome lol especially on topic of high powered car audio equipment. Definitely makes you a whole original of your own

Well done Ed! You covered stuff that most of us don’t even consider when buying subs and you help us all make more informed decisions.

Keep the tech stuff coming, never hurts to learn more. Good job man!

Mr Lester, Thank you!! Ive watched your old Subwoofer recone video tons of times while learning how to build subs for myself and my buddies. Tons of knowledge that has helped me out tremendously.....thank you. This video was another winner in the subwoofer builder encyclopedia. Look forward to future "Woofer Wednesdays" Thanx Again

Learned some good info and I have a Sundown Xv2 so that helped understand it more.

Absolute stellar topic man! No one else describes these aspects of subwoofer design. Two thumbs up!

thanks for making these videos, there just isn't enough technical videos out there. between this channel and emf i learn so much.

SP4 V1 is one of my favorites. I got the last machined V1 motor! This series is great by the way

Orion HCCA 124, or 122 amazing excursion and power handling , keep up with the great videos, they are so good I don’t need a goodie bag

You explained very well plus the snippet with Jacob was simple to understand it all.

My two favorite woofers are TC Sounds Lms 18 and RE Audio XXX. Both are amazing!!!

My favorite subwoofer/motor is the Peerless by Tymphany STW-350F-188PR01-04 15"

My favorite motor was the T3 TSNS. It was a beast.

Great job Ed

Thanks for the info! I really enjoy these technical videos

Favorite motor for me has to be the TC sounds from the late 90s. I have an Audiomobile mass 2012 made in 1999. Still the best sounding sub I've ever heard.

Fi sp4 are my favorite LOOKING motor assemblys. I mean, c'mon. Those things are gorgeous.

Great in depth view into subwoofer motors. Keep the series going, I love information. I also love sundown audio equipment and thier whole team is awesome also. Bass on brotha and keep the vids coming!!!!

Awesome Show 👌❤️

Love the tech stuff! Another great Woofer Wednesday!

Great video. Not many like this. This is more school and I love it.

Excellent presentation 👍 Edwin couldn't have said it better !!

So my favorite motor is weird; being a fan boy of Zeds amps early in my car audio journey, I fell in love with a motor from Lanzar shortly after. In the early 2000’s before the opti’s sub line became a decent budget gem, I came across their HRWDC line. I still use the subs today, and to me, they’ve stood the test of time and have yet to disappoint in all the demos I’ve given throughout the years, and more recently, gave me solid results in the OSSPLC paired up with an old fosgate amp. But anyways, I Appreciate the time and effort you put into your content. Looking foreword to the next one!!

Keep up the great work Ed . It was really nice meeting you in person at SEMA . I really appreciate you taking time to take a picture with me and Steve Meade. If your going to CES and need a camera guy message me I’m going to be there

Thanks for sharing

My favorite motors of all time are the kicker solo x, mtx 9500 and of coarse the Orion hcca takes the cake,I also love the look of the r e audio xxx

I love the series man you have a very good way of explaining things in good detail but not too much to lose the viewer. I hope that you keep the intro the Mister Rogers theme is really cool an unique. Another great video 👌

Thanks for the knowledge!

Great video brother very well explained! It funny speaking to some of the older competitors from the 90’s, they used to glue weights under the dust caps to increase motor force. Not sure that actually worked but it was cool to hear the stories how guys tried to get more DB’s that way.

I know this is an older video and probably nothing to do with this subject, but we now have people out there running single 8" and 6 1/2 inch subs in special built enclosures hitting 160+ DBs When you see some guys dropping thousand of dollars on multiple much larger subwoofers barely hitting 150"s. But I'm aware of the mechanics more now than I did when I was younger and this subject added to my love of installs. The more you know the more you grow :)

My favorite woofer motor so far is deaf bonce dbsa4 series however I absolutely love Hutchinson car audio neo motors they look phenomenal

I had a set of 6 inch cerwin vegas speakers with 2 chrome tweeters in the middle of them and they had massive magnets on them.they were car audio speakers they sounded great but I put it much power into them when I was a kid

Great video sir very educational keep up the good work 👍 👍

Gotta agree with the DDZ as well as the RE Audio XXX and if it counts the old school PG Pysclone

The best motor I ever owned I just reconed today is a Resilient Sounds Onyx series. 80+ pounds of motor is just insane to me having grown up in the 80s and 90s I kinda got to witness the evolution of modern subwoofers. I've owned Orion HCCA subs and the Onyx is bigger. It's very impressive.

A gift? You mean other than your pretty self and vast experience and knowledge? Wow , that's a deal. My fave motor ...I like them all😎 And thank you for looking at this😘. I have a far better understanding than I did, now it's time to do some learning.

great info !! i enjoyed it keep it coming 👍👍👍

Great vid! Keep it up love your stuff ed!

Great video learned a lot keep up the great work and great videos

I love my Sundown Audio zv2'S......older motors i know. But they are BADASS and super strong.

One of my favorite motors to look at is By SMD that design is just crazy.

This video reminded me of a school lecture and almost put me to sleep. I liked it

Fi.. sp4... love the design.. looks and performance

Deafbonce sa312 has a massive motor and has no pole vent, 3in coil and 2800rms I run a single deafbonce sa312 d1 at.5ohm on my deafbonce 4k daily, takes every bit of it and I have never once smelled any coil smells... Ive been thinking of getting another one

My favorite are the DC Audio Neo Elite 4" coil Neo motors. Some honorable mentions are the M1 Level 5 3" coil motors and the Sundown Team Ferrite motors.

Great content

Hello, enjoyed your video. Really appreciated your explanations and thought they were well done. I have been looking at the trw 17 rotary subwoofer and thinking about their use of the stationary motor and “helicopter” style mechanics to move the blades. I have also been looking at various “voice coil linear motors” made for motion of things other than speakers. IMO it would be interesting to build a rotary subwoofer using a solid mounted coil on the base and “spin” the magnet on the shaft and use the air gap in place of a ball bearing “swash plate” arrangement. Hence why I found your magnetics video informative. Managing a spinning magnet and coil gap certainly presents some new challenges but some opportunities as well. It would be attractive to build a rotary subwoofer for less than 23000$. Cheers, great video. EE Duane in Canada.

I love the fi omega and the btl neos the dear bonce db subs r nice

My favorite motor atm is on my DC audio m3 8 D2.

My favorit motor is the rockford fosgate t2 12. Not the first silver one but the murdered out all black model. I honestly had no idea there was so much involved with sub motors.

I love incriminator audios subwoofer designs. All of their subs look amazing. I’ve owned a lethal injection 12” and regret selling all of the time. So much so that I’ve been thinking of ordering another lethal injection or a Death Row. I just hate waiting on custom built subs as I’m very impatient 😂. That Lethal injection LOVED the lows.

Great vid, and exactly the type of vids I want to see just getting into subwoofer reduilding/building/experiments lol :) a voice coil vid would be great, ie: difference between copper alum, winding count, flat vs round, wire gauge, etc.

Wow I just thought I knew about motors🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣this guy is on a sub-genius level very well explained sir

As far as looks go I'd have to say Soundstream xxx18, Sundown Team V1 motor, SMD double stack assembly & The Hutchinson Audio motors look amazing

Yes!! I love these tech videos. I would love for you to do this with thiel specs. That may be spelled wrong

I feel like I just watched Mr. Rogers neighborhood for bass heads. I liked it.

By fare one of the best videos 👍👍

The original Stroker motor like you mentioned, as well as another “pancake” that always stuck out to me was the PPI Flat Piston Pros. After that it was the earlier Digital Designs motors(A,B,C versions), they weren’t anything substantially out of the norm but they just looked really good to me, just clean polished ferrite and chrome. I seem to remember they used to have one supposed “SQ” orientated series, the 9100 line, that had a really unique looking motor structure as well.

How about the pros and cons of copper versus aluminum voice coil? Any other materials used for coils like platinum?

My Favorate motor design and coil design is JBL GTI MK2 subwoofers Differential Drive Design. You should do a tech time on that design. It’s actually kinda cool from photos, but not many people understand it’s design and operation and why they choose dual 6ohms for the design.

Oh, you took me back to 1994 with the Aura Neo Woofers.

I like the atomic 856 motor

I think my Favorite Motor design was the TC Sounds LMS Ultra. Favorite motor by aesthetics? Going to have to agree with you on the Z series Neo setup.

Sundown nightshade is my favorite

Elemental designs 13av.2 motor great and good to look at

My favorite motor out of any subwoofer I own would be my Soundstream SS10 (version 1) All time favorite motor assemblies I'd give credit to RE Audio. EMF Audio is on my list as well with the Ermagerd, but I favor the V1 over the V2. The square V2 motor looks like it should be on a square MTX Jackhammer.

Okay I guess my Blurb about the MR. Rodgers of Audio Caught on. :-) RIGHT ON!!!!!!

Thanks

tks

Fi BTL-neo, SP4 v2 and Huthcinson ETA. You can't mistake the SP4 for anything else that I've seen

Love this type of stuff. Great job 👏👏

I keep hearing you say that the Stroker wasnt made for high excursion. This is not right!! Back in those times, that is exactly what that woofer was made for!!! It of course may not seem like that these days, but i was installing those things back in the 90's and they were blowing our minds and our windows!!!! Im 46 years young, been in the game since the mid 80;s when i was 15 years old just so you know my background. Great video, of course!!!! I love the way your mind works, i wish i had your ability to see things the way you explain them!!!

I like the Focal Utopia 27wx

I've been a big fan of the death penalty motors throughout the years from the solid slug motors to the star motors

It's basic but the Boston acoustic g5 one of my favorite woofers(excuse me..subwoofer)...

Holees grate look

Awsome, this helped, wanting to build some subs, experimenting with a few different parts, and this helped me understand a little better, if you have a couple Xtra stroker motors lying around how much would you sell em for?

You briefly spoke about motors like 4 years ago when you made a video about voice coils, I believe you went over adire audio motor and reg motor. It’s been years ago though

What’s up can you do a video on how to recenter the pole ring on the subwoofer motor thanks

3HP... works for me 👍😎 T.I. basket preferably... eats power 🔋 and puts it out

great info ...i have a pair of 18s subs can i use the motors from my 18s and build a pair of 24 inch subs..?..

Awesome video as usual but I am curious about the difference (advantage vs disadvantage) in VC sizes like some are 2" and I've seen some in home stereos systems as big as 8"

DeafBonce sa DB4 18s. Hands down my favorite subwoofer and motor. 7k per subwoofer on music. No issues.

Super nice setup loving it keep up the good work!😍

powersoft m-force. have you seen that thing?! moving magnet! two crazy coils power a 32” driver. crazy tech. i would love more details on this monster

Fi BTL UFO motors I've always wanted a pair.

Huchinson neo looks crazy

Hi i need tu know whats the gap between pole and top plate for 4 layer coil

Dude ain't never just hit us wit tha " it's a good day in the neighborhood entrance " ..... Where to Charlie.

My two favorite motors are Orion hcca motors there amazing they handle tons of power and the design is just beefy goodness. Second are kicker motor I’m sure people like what kicker. Well kicker has some amazing tech with the cooling of the Vc with holes around the tape and hole under the cone into the former for double cooling it’s genius

mojo 15 subwoofer > made by Memphis love it !!

Hey i have a L7 12 that was in a box and fell off a truck. Well the magnet came off. Is that a repairable thing?

I really like the deaf bonce db4 motors, I think it’s a unique design. Also they’re neo motors.

So I have a question how much does motor Force play into compared to cone area let's say you have a 12-in sundown SA v1 and you have a 10-in sundown zv5 what would potentially be louder given the woofer was given the perfect enclosure per specs and power? If you could touch on that that would be fantastic

Could you do a recone on the cirwin Vega stroker? It would help me alot. I have an early 90s cirwin Vega octigon 15" car sub that I am trying to recone but I am a bit lost as far as how much depth they're supposed to be from the voice coil to the Mount Pole is it pretty much the same as that cerwin Vega you have there so I take that the voice coil just needs to be on the top surface also on this one?

The sundown audio Ns4....looks like a tall holed cylinder i just looks cool to me

My favorite motor is the Orion hcca spl Its a beast! My second is the 4" coil 600oz motor you can buy on the Lord of bass. Never heard it but it looks huge and its also under $800 to buy. I'm one day going to by one.

Do you think you could go more in-depth on the Fi Audio subs and the pros and cons to their motor structure?

7ins coil sound good

I know it's an old video but on my 200oz motor off a 15" NVX I rebuilt into a 10" how does coil winding height affect it the oem 3" coil had a 2" wide winding width and the coil I was sold is like 1 5/8ish? Both 4 layer It works fine I'm happy but just curious. I was able to bottom out the 15 a couple times with the original 2" windings so figure the shorter windings prob wouldn't as one plus? Also the original was aluminum and new coil is copper.