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Right NWBasser. I have heard about long excursion speakers and their ability to push more air and handle bass better. However, I don't think that a long excursion speaker can increase the amplitude of the wavelength. It can reproduce a longer wavelength better possibly and definitely give you more "thump", but I don't think it can increase the amplitude and give you as deep of a bass tone as a fifteen or eighteen inch speaker of the same ratio long excursion speaker.
It is confusing though, because my Klipsch eight inch subwoofer I added to my home theater system sounds really good. Better than the bigger subwoofers I tried that were within my price range. I paid more for the Klipsch but it has more controls and switches on it than any of the other ones and it is a down firing one. A down firing one might use the floor to create a larger "sounding board" for the sound waves to get attenuated by and then re-radiated by, causing it to sound like a larger speaker. Plus, for a bass speaker wavelength to really sound correct I have heard that the room you are in has to be pretty big in order for the bass wavelength to fully reach the actual measuremed wavelength.
Duffy Bolduc
South Williamsport, Pa.
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