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Keith G wrote:
problem due to the large excursion that the cone makes at it's centre
and so some more modern designs have dispensed entirely with the
spider and relied on the cone-surround alone to perform both these
functions.


That's funny, I'm sure I saw "No moving coil speaker ever has had a
'major redesign'" somewhere...??

A major redesign would involve finding a replacement for magnet coil or
diaphragm. Anything else is just tinkering.

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