The heart of the Conquest is its amazing American made 18 inch driver. It is the result of relentless measurements, listening tests and attention to detail. This is truly an all-out design with which we spared no expense.

The cone itself is a reliable and nearly indestructible design. It is made of paper-pulp with Kevlar fibers to help strengthen it. The result is a cone that is ridiculously strong, but still very lightweight. It is also environmentally stable and incredibly reliable.

The motor features an enormous triple stack of magnets. They provide a gargantuan amount of magnetic strength to the voice coil. In fact, using larger magnets doesn’t yield an increase in motor strength. The magnetic gap is literally saturated with motor strength.

The voice coil is a large diameter high temperature design. It is also designed to give the 18 inch driver huge excursion capabilities. Thanks to the coil design and all of the driver’s moving parts, it is capable of 3 inches of peak to peak excursion. Combine this with the large 18 inch diameter cone and you get some magnificent output potential.

Internally, the driver features a very effective cooling system. Air is swept past the voice coil and it naturally cools itself. It allows for the already extraordinarily overbuilt voice coil to handle and dissipate even more heat.

This results in a magnificent amount of dynamic capability. With its ability to easily handle its 1000 watt amplifier even without the extra cooling, this improvement makes it perform even more effortlessly without output-robbing compression. Simply put, the driver is able to handle massive amounts of power.

To reduce distortion even further, the driver is equipped with a massive and expensive quarter inch thick internal aluminum shorting ring. The ring helps with cooling as well as extending the frequency response of the driver far beyond the normal upper end of most subwoofers. This has an audible effect on several performance aspects of the driver.

Sound quality is improved because it significantly lowers the driver’s distortion characteristics. Overall efficiency is also improved by the top end extension being improved. More than anything else, the subwoofer gains a huge amount of chest-pounding “slam” because of the flat frequency response.

Unlike many other larger subwoofer drivers, the Conquest’s 18 inch driver is lightning fast. It does not sound the way most people expect it to sound. It features the best sound quality of all of our subwoofers thanks to the attention to its design and performance.