Any one here anything about the New 22in MTX sub? I forgot my Mag that had everything about it I was going to post all the details here but the think looked Massive... Some like 22in Tall and 22in Cone Dia... Looks like a w7 style cone 10,000W power handling. it is massive
i have some pictures of it saved on my computer but i dont know how to attach them?? ive heard a few things about them but im not sure if theyre true or not so id rather not spread rumors. but id be glad to load these pictures of it from ces if i knew how... -Cody
I saw it at CES... They had it sitting on a stand, actually running at like 1hz. It was impressive at first glance, because it was so massive... It looked about exactly like if you took a 13W7, and scaled it up so that it was about 150% larger. But I did note that it was significantly warm, running on what shouldn't have been much power going to it, since it was not really reaching that huge of an excursion level. And the first thing that popped into MY mind was: "What is it designed for?" ...and I couldn't come up with any answers. Not that it wouldn't be cool to simply own the most massive subwoofer on the market... but Audiobahn actually has that - a 34" subwoofer is definitely more impressive than a 22" subwoofer... ...and if you didn't like that, you could hunt down the old Clarion Thunderdome (32" subwoofer)... If they wanted to build the biggest - they certainly could have - so I am thinking that wasn't the goal here. I can't imagine it's built for maximum SPL, because of the monsterous moving mass involved... Typically, when you get to larger and larger cone size drivers, you find them drifting to being less and less suited to ported enclosures... not that you can't design a huge sub for ported box use, but you have so much cone mass, and also/therefore so much suspension stiffness, that you'd need the most powerful motor on the planet to give you enough BL and a low enough Qes that would make an ideal ported box candidate... ...and even if you overcame these, it would be tough to get the resonant frequency high enough with such a large driver to make it really ideal for SPL competition. For a daily driver, the price tag seemed to be ludicrous regardless of what it's good for... as far as "bang for the buck", it certainly isn't that. I seriously am still wondering... why did they build that?
I just don't see that, because there's more "wow" factor with an Audiobahn AWT34 34" sub... or even a 32" Clarion Thunderdome, even though these don't have the squared-off proportions, they are ultimately more capable... And it brings you back to those squared off proportions - why? Is it more suitable to ported applications than the two subs I mention? Lord knows they aren't in the slightest. If so... why? Who cares, in the scope of a sub like this? If you had a 34" sub.. or a 32" sub... or even a 22" sub like this one - wouldn't enclosure size certainly be a factor, particularly since you are talking about car audio here? Since sealed boxes are more compact than ported, given practical goals, and since the big advantage of having such a large coned sub is more cone area - more of an advantage to a subwoofer in a sealed box than to one in a ported box - it seems to make more sense that way anyway. So it just brings me back to the design question... ...what the heck is it designed for?
I think your over analizing this Neither Audiobahn or Clarion are Direct Competitors IMO with MTX's demographics first off Next it does not matter if it was 32, 42, 22, what ever there whole point is to get people to stop and say "look at that big ass sub lets take a closer look" they probally have no intentions of selling many of them, it is a PR boost, nothing more.
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IMO, the jackhammer is pretty whoop-ass! I've seen some video clips, and the excursion is unreal. It takes a crapload of power to push, though.. something like 6000 watts, not very effiecient (for the wallet, either.) I have seen it advertised for $4500, and the best price I've seen is $2200 (but there's a great big wating list). I actually was going to put one in my truck (I had some money to play with!), Glad reality check came by for a visit, now I'm thinking about tumults! They did an episode of pimp my ride where they took this really geeky kids (late eighties-early nineties) Buick century - what a terd! But, they Put a jackhammer into it, and it thumped to beat all hell. I bet that the welds on that auto don't last long. In fact, you can see the video at www.realmofexcursion.com .. - jeff
