
Originally Posted by
dgage
Chithead, if you mean round vs say the kicker square cones then the issue is boundaries. A round sub has one boundary to keep on the same plane for smooth waves to develop from. If you look at Kicker’s square cones, they have to keep excursion down since it is harder to keep the square cone in the same plane, which would develop the cleanest waves. Plus a square potentially has 4 boundaries corners with each having the opportunity to be slightly out of sync if not perfectly in the same plane, which means a less clean audio wave since it isn’t one clean wave but potentially 4 waves slightly distorted from each other (corners). That’s the audio enthusiast answer and I’d be interested in how Justin can correct me, not that correction is the point. But that is a good question and I’d be interested to know how much further down the deep audio hole Justin could take it.