The Dipole12 was designed specifically for open baffle/dipole use. In open baffle applications, drivers are required to operate at much higher excursions than in typical boxed woofer applications to make up for the rolloff of the baffle. When a woofer is pushed to high excursions, Bl and Le linearity are very critical. To achieve this linearity, the Dipole woofers were designed with a large underhung motor and full copper sleeve covering the entire pole. This combination allows the most possible linearity and low distortion during high excursion use. The high Q and low Fs allow the Dipole woofers to be very efficient at low frequencies and have a very flat response. While EQ is always needed to correct for the baffle rolloff itself, no additional EQ is required to flatten the response of the driver.

As with all of the TD drivers the Dipole12 has extremely low and linear inductance. Power requirements for the Dipole woofers are very low to push these drivers to high excursions. The low power requirements and non-reactive load make the Dipole woofers ideal for use with tube amplifiers. The Dipole woofers have some of the best midrange performance of any TD woofers, playing flat up to 2KHz or more. Available in dual 8ohm coils only. Can be wired to 4ohm(parallel) or 16ohm(series) nominal.

Dipole12 (8ohm coils in parallel)
Fs: 25.9Hz
Qms: 11
Vas: 273 L
Cms: 0.7mm/N
Mms: 55 g
Rms: 0.81kg/s
Xmax: 12mm
Sd: 530cm2
Qes: .73
Re: 3.1ohm
Le: 0.04mH
Z: 4ohm
Bl: 6.1T/m
Pe: 200Watts
Qts: 0.68
1WSpl: 90.1dB
2.83V: 94.3dB

Dipole12 Highlights:
Designed specifically for open baffle/dipole use
Underhung motor for extreme BL linearity
Incredibly low inductance
Non-reactive load ideal for use with tube amplifiers