JL Audio 6.5-Inch 2-Way Component Woofer (Each) - 99059

JL Audio 99059 6.5-Inch 2-Way Component Woofer (Each)

Born from shared technologies used in our flagship C7 speakers, the C6-650cw component woofer benefits from vast woofer design experience and advanced modeling systems of JL Audio.

Ideal for active systems, the C6-650cw component woofer features a proprietary cast alloy frame outfitted with our Elevated Frame Cooling™ technology and a DMA-optimized motor system to generate outstanding midbass impact with ultralow distortion.

Passive crossover networks are not included with C6 drivers, as they are designed for active systems. Instead, we recommend a high-quality tuning digital signal processor, such as the JL Audio TwK® DSP, or a VXi amplifier with built-in DSP, with a dedicated amplifier channel for each C6 loudspeaker in the system. Precise setup of equalization, delay and crossover filters will ensure optimal in-vehicle performance.

Component woofers are sold individually and include a plastic grille tray, one fine steel mesh grille and one electroformed JL Audio badge logo.

Key Features

• Forged and machined motor plates with DMA-optimized geometries to create linear motor force under power, leading to outstanding midbass impact, linearity and low distortion
• Large diameter, linear profile, flat spider for linear compliance and outstanding excursion capability
• Center cap designed to optimize the high-frequency response of the woofer for seamless transition to a tweeter’s response
• Oversized voice coil for extended power handling capability, minimizing thermal compression and distortion at higher listening levels
• Cast alloy frame with our Elevated Frame Cooling feature
• Includes fine mesh grille
• Design Bandwidth
  • With 48 dB/octave filters: 55 Hz-6 kHz
  • With 24 dB/octave filters: 65 Hz-6 kHz
  • With 12 dB/octave filters: 80 Hz-6 kHz

Features

• Dynamic Motor Analysis - DMA Optimized Motor
  JL Audio's proprietary Dynamic Motor Analysis system is a powerful suite of FEA-based modeling systems, first developed by JL Audio in 1997 and refined over the years to scientifically address the issue of speaker motor linearity. This leads to vastly reduced distortion and faithfully reproduced transients... or put simply: tight, clean, articulate bass.
• Elevated Frame Cooling
  JL Audio's Elevated Frame Cooling design delivers cool air through slots directly above the top-plate to the voice coil of the speaker. This not only enhances power handling, but also sound quality by minimizing dynamic parameter shifts and power compression.
• Dr. Kurt Muller & Co.
  When the goal is superior component woofer performance, the things that truly matter are: consistency in cone mass, cone thickness and suspension compliance. This is why we turn to our partners at Germany's Dr. Kurt Müller & Co. for critical cone and suspension elements in our top-flight component woofers. Their track record of manufacturing precision and meticulous quality control is very well established in the loudspeaker industry; although most loudspeaker manufacturers prefer to avoid the premium that this quality commands.
  While it has become fashionable to use stiff, exotic materials for component speaker cones, these tend to create upper mid-range colorations that require aggressive crossover designs and/or equalization to control. By contrast, Müller's low mass, mineral-filled polypropylene cones and butyl rubber surrounds are inherently well damped to deliver an uncolored, neutral midrange without any "artificial flavoring". This keeps crossover design simple and renders a smooth, clean mid-range presentation, on and off axis.
  Dr. Kurt Muller & Co. also supplies the symmetrical-roll, hybrid-weave spiders used in the ZR woofers.
• Silk Dome Tweeter
  Silk is a natural material with inherently good characteristics as a tweeter diaphragm. In addition to being very light in weight, silk exhibits excellent damping properties, which reduces ringing and resonances in the tweeter’s passband, leading to a smooth, pleasing high-frequency character free from unnatural sibilance or exaggerated brightness. Compared to a harder material dome, a silk tweeter does not exhibit as much ultra-high frequency extension, but is preferred by many audiophiles for its overall balance.