Test Bench - Dayton Audio ES180Ti-8 7” High-End Midbass Woofer

In this test, Vance Dickason characterizes a 7” midwoofer from Dayton Audio’s Esoteric Series of home-audio oriented drivers. The ES180TI-8 is a very good-looking driver with a well thought out neodymium magnet motor design, FEA designed. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, December 2014.

This Test Bench analysis discusses Celestion CF1840JD pro sound 18” woofer. The CF1840JD is a fairly high power handling woofer rated at 1,000 WRMS (AES standard), featuring a substantial ferrite finite element analysis (FEA) optimized motor assembly, an 18” Kevlar-loaded paper cone and large 5.5” diameter paper dust cap. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, December 2014.

In the December 2014 edition of Voice Coil Vance Dickason’s Test Bench discusses two very different woofers — the 18” Celestion CF1840JD pro sound subwoofer and Dayton Audio’s 7” ES180Ti-8 home audio woofer. In Acoustic Patents, James Croft reviews two loudspeaker-related patents filed by Dolby Lab Licensing Corp. (US) and comments on its own Transducer With Improved Electro-Magnetic Circuit patent.

The December 2014 issue of audioXpress signals the start of a new fascinating article series by Ron Tipton, which traces the evolution from mono to present-day binaural recording with practical experiments and examples. We review Universal Audio’s Apollo Twin Thunderbolt-based audio interface and conclude George Adamidis’ “Build Your Own Audio Mixer” project and discuss “Correct Tube Amplification for Headphones Operation.”