Whats x-max?

Question

when reading about a car subwoofer,what does xmax mean?? does it mean how much air it pushes? so the HIGHER(more) the xmax number(mm) is, the louder the bass will be, heard??

Answer 1

The Xmax is like spaky says , it is the maxmium amount of distance the voice coil can travel in the motor gap, alot of company's try to use this to hype there subs , always remember it is the sum of all the parts, not just one thing or spec. that make a quality driver,if the motor can't control the voice coil at 3"of Xmax, it really doesn't matter if it can move that far.

Answer 2

XMAX is the travel of the cone in one direction.

The bigger the number, the higher the SPL.