Just how big is that driver?

Unsound
Good point.

Truth in advertising is important too... "Whose truth" looks more and more like the real question.

it's always refreshing to have exacting standards being employed in such an esoteric and affluent market, huh?

Spec sheets should only contain info on color, weight, size, and perhaps price. Everthing else is subjective apparently.

Unsound
Well, yes, and no.

I'm serious as to the figures a maker uses for the products they sell which have other makers drivers in them.... Why should a given driver's specified dimensions then differ from those of the provider of the driver being used in the first place?

For example, If I go about building speaker systems... and am able to buy for instance, drivers from Vortex for ex., and Vortex says the drivers I want to use are 9inch, 5inch, and 1 inch drivers, should I be then compelled to say the Drivers in my speaker system are 10 inch, 6 inch and 1 inch?

Or merely pass along the orig drivers specs? this latter approach seems prudent and wise.

Gawdbless

Is this a 'never mind the quality, feel the width' sort of question?

No.

I’m in fact wondering where the truth is for one, and why such disparity exists in this ‘plain to see’ facet of the audio industry.

One can argue much about claimed parameters of just about any audio component. Are tube watts indeed superior to solid state watts? What’s the true maximum output of a 300B tube? How was that SPL number arrived at? …. And likewise, impedances, and sensitivity?

But how on earth can any despairity, difference, in critical or even subjective terms, alter a simple ruled result? It’s misleading and undermines consumer confidences. IMO

On one hand, I feel the driver has to be considered the whole of the active sound producing unit. The cage, voice coil, surround, magnet, vibrating element or diaphragm… the whole enchilada… the part that fills the hole in the cabinet.

On the other though, with such often made references to the type of cone materials being used, paper, reinforced this & that’s, Kevlar, titainium, aluminum, coated such & such alloys; it’s only that portion moving the air itself. In short, the part we can actually see working.

Years ago, when one speaker maker said they used a six inch midrange driver, you could count on it being six inches across the paper cone itself. I see that no longer being so much the standard and simply wondered “how come dat is?”

I must have missed that memo.