Marine Speaker classification…how good are yours?
You will find your marine speakers categorized into 4 main categories: dual cone speakers, coaxial speakers, component speakers, and sub-woofers. Let’s talk about a dual cone marine speaker today. Just what are they? They have (guess what?) 2 cones as indicated by the name – one large cone and one small cone. They do, however, have only one driver or sound output source. You’ll get all your mid range and low frequencies from the larger cone and that leaves that smaller cone to process your higher frequencies. This kind of marine speaker will work well under most circumstances, but comes up a bit short if a person is looking for something that will give him/her a broad spectrum of sound frequencies. Why then are they so popular?? Simple answer is price. These speakers are the most inexpensive and they do the job.