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 ManualDayton 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 | -- |

