Description

Peavey’s Low Max 18″ driver was engineered around one problem: amplifiers keep getting more powerful, and a lot of subwoofer drivers can’t keep pace. This one can. It carries a program power rating of 2,400 watts, giving it more usable headroom than most commercially available 18-inch drivers on the market.

18-inch low-frequency driver
2,400 watts program power handling
Model number 00560400

That kind of capacity matters for anyone building or rebuilding a subwoofer cabinet for live sound reinforcement — bands, PA rental stock, church systems, mobile DJ rigs — where you want the driver to be the last thing that fails, not the first. It’s equally useful in a studio or project space where you’re constructing a reference or monitoring sub and don’t want to babysit gain staging out of fear of blowing a voice coil.

Because it’s sold as a standalone driver, it drops into existing enclosures for repairs, upgrades, or custom builds. If you’re chasing tighter low end and a wider margin of safety before you hit distortion or failure, this is a straightforward way to get there without upgrading your entire amp rack to compensate for a driver that’s the weak link in the chain.