Yes and terminated, That mean all the cut corners are curled to add strength, stop ringing and lower basket flex. Lower distortion!!
Get a product like black hole, SR71, or just one sided sticky dampening material. I've done a lot of VMPS drivers which are punched baskets with shark shin. A woven carbon fiber you can see through. Super strong, Super fast. You apply it to all the outside of the basket and wrap the magnet too.
You cut it to fit and make sure there is enough to just fold over the outside edge to the underside edge. THAT is the real trick to distortion, slightly over the edge and pinched it tight all the way around, every edge. It use to take me just about an hour to do 4 12" drivers. 2 subs, 2 mid bass couplers all WCF sharkskin.
You tap on driver before and after, It's night and day..
Just because it's a stamped basket doesn't make it a so so driver. It's actually one of the best sounding bass drivers I've heard. 3-500 watt drivers. 110db, clear as a bell. Very light weight super strong cones. They also use tuned/trimmed chassis mount fixed phase plugs. The sub PP is shorter and has a flat face. The MB couplers PP is 3/4" longer and has a tapered face. Now the second wave coming back can't distort the cone moving forward or backward.
Have fun..
