What are the Problems with Tactile Transducers?
• Tactile Transducers are not very efficient. They crave power. 1W into a sub driver will create a lot more output than it will into a transducer. My tactile transducer amplifier is, without a doubt, the hardest working and hottest running amplifier in my system. It is very easy to overpower my 4 RBH transducers with a 150W amplifier. • They require their own amplifier. Because of the serious mismatch in sensitivities, don’t try to run them in parallel or in series with your subwoofer. • The RBH and Aura/Alpines have very strong resonant peaks around 45Hz. Their frequency response is far from flat and I would NOT call this quality bass. Actually such peaky high Q bass has a certain slowness or delay effect with some music. This is unnerving. Serious EQ helps here (like a -24dB cut). This problem is at its worst with rhythmic music with heavy bass, movie special effects fare better. Parametric or graphic EQ is recommended. • Transducers don’t have the dynamic range of sub woofers. If ma
