Benefits:
Motor Assembly
The motor assembly includes a bumped back plate and extended pole to
provide maximum excursion and minimal bottoming
Spider
The Orion Cobalt 12" Subwoofer uses Conex for the spider material.
This material significantly prolongs the life of the subwoofer and maintains
its performance.
Many other materials deteriorate and begin to "dish" which cause the voice
coil to no longer
be centered in the magnetic gap and negatively affects the performance of
the driver
and ultimately results in a voice coil failure.
Tinsel End
Tinsel leads are the number one failure mode of subwoofers. There
are various ways to attach
the tinsel leads, the first is just to arc them from the terminal to the
cone, the leads have the
potential to either break or short together. Another is to weave them into
the spider, this method
prevents them from shorting together, but causes the leads to stretch as the
spider moves,
resulting in breakage.
The Orion Cobalt 12" Subwoofer features a loop-stitch method that loops
the lead over the rolls in the spider and then secures the lead in the
valleys of spider with a stitch.
This keeps the leads free of tension, but secure during peak performance.
X-Venting
To relieve as much heat as possible, the Orion Cobalt 12" Subwoofer features
X-venting on the voice
coil former and the neck of the cone underneath the dust cap. Both of these
vent areas aid in removing
heat from the motor assembly of the driver. This improves both the peak
power handling
and extends the overall life of the driver.
Features:
Reversible top gasket
Large copper wound Kapton voice coil
Autotension push terminals
Flat convex spider with loop stitched tinsel leads
Specifications:
500 Watts peak performance
200 Watts RMS
12" Subwoofers
Fs (Hz): 38
Qts: 0.49
Vas (cu ft): 4.017
Sensitivity: 87.2 dB
Mounting hole dia: 10.91"
Mounting depth: 5.51"