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post #16 of 20
3/8/10 at 12:15am
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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich View Post
If a Kevlar driver weighed as much as a Kevlar bulletproof vest then it would be a very poor speaker driver. Kevlar speaker cones are thin. Kevlar bulletproof vests are thick.

A good question for Mythbusters. How many Kevlar speaker cones would it take to be bulletproof? Line up 100 of them back to back and see if a bullet can make it through all of them.
It's also a matter of the weave and construction of the Kevlar, though. It would take a hell of a lot of drivers to stop a bullet.
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post #17 of 20
3/8/10 at 12:38am
We're forgetting the primary benefit of Kevlar as a driver material. It looks cool and high tech. That's better than bulletproof to the marketing departments.

My M-Audio BX8a speakers have a kevlar driver. Looks cool and carbon fiber weavey. I wonder if M-Audio would be able to sell a similar speaker that used a treated paper cone instead of the kevlar. I doubt it, even if the paper cone version sounds better. It wouldn't sell sitting in the showrooms next to the KRK monitors with their yellow aramid composite weave drivers.
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post #18 of 20
3/8/10 at 11:21pm
I would try wiring a voice coil/magnet to a Kevlar vest and see how it sounds.
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post #19 of 20
3/10/10 at 8:05pm
The glass in a bank teller window is bullet proof, a plate glass window in my house is not. The same holds true for kevlar, it is a strong material, but it does not have supernatural properties. Same materials, different applications.
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post #20 of 20
3/12/10 at 7:53pm
bullet proof vests consist of over 50 layers of kevlar. not sure if the same applies to my KRK RP6..
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