HDN-8 Weatherproof Sound Exciter Transducer

Quick Overview

Compact and extremely versatile, the HDN-8 Sound Exciter Transducer lets you create high-quality ‘hidden speakers’ in walls, ceilings, and floors, or add tactile excitement to furniture and seating.

Product Highlights

  • Rugged plastic housing with black matte finish
  • Coarse-threaded mounting stud for single-point mounting into almost any material
  • Hermetically-sealed design for installation in wet or humid environments

Product Manuals / Spec Sheets / Downloads

Dayton Audio HDN-8 User Manual
Dayton Audio HDN-8 Application Guide
Dayton Audio HDN-8 Specification Sheet

Buying Options

Unlike a tactile transducer that delivers shake effects to your listening experience, the HDN-8 Sound Exciter Transducer is a full range, versatile, compact transducer that can excite a surface or structure over a wide bandwidth, enabling the creation of completely hidden audio systems in walls, ceilings, and floors. Its high power handling allows it to produce useful sound levels with a small number of transducers, and its hermetically-sealed design permits indoor or outdoor installation, even in wet or humid environments such as outside decking or an inside bath/shower installations. It features a single, coarse-threaded mounting stud that easily installs into wood, fiberglass, or plastic, and the 8-ohm impedance allows integration with conventional audio amplifiers.

Dimensions: 4" W x 1.75" H

Dayton Audios HDN-8 exciters have even be used in audio enabled art installations:

See these exciters in action – Watch SHIMMER by Dan Fox

To understand more about exciter technology, here is a link to the Exciters Buyers Guide .

Speaker Series Exciters
Model Number HDN-8
Color Black
Unit of Measure Each
UPC 848791000041
Warranty - Parts 5 Years
Warranty - Labor 5 Years
Product Shipping Weight (lbs.) 2.3
Speaker Type Exciter
Power Handling (RMS) 50 watts
Power Handling (max) 100 watts
Continuous Program Power --
Impedance 8 ohms
Sensitivity --
Frequency Response

40 - 15

000 Hz

Voice Coil Diameter 50 mm
Magnet Weight --
DC Resistance (Re) 7.46 ohms
Voice Coil Inductance (Le) 0.86 mH @ 1 kHz
Resonant Frequency (Fs) 695 Hz
Mechanical Q (Qms) --
Electromagnetic Q (Qes) --
Total Q (Qts) 1.52
Diaphragm Mass Inc. Airload (Mms) 38.2 g
Moving Mass Of Diaphragm (Mmd) --
Mechanical Compliance of Suspension (Cms) --
Surface Area Of Cone (Sd) --
Volume of Displacement (Vd) --
BL Product (BL) 18.2 Tm
Compliance Equivalent Volume (Vas) --
Maximum Linear Excursion (Xmax) --
Drivers Mechanical Losses (Rms) --
Entry / Exit Diameter --
Surround Material --
Voice Coil Wire Material --
Voice Coil Former --
Basket/Frame Material --
Magnet Material --
Overall Outside Diameter --
Overall Depth --
Baffle Cutout Diameter --
Mounting Hole Diameter --
Bolt Circle Diameter --
Product Weight --
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