Abstract: --A motor for an electrodynamic loudspeaker and an electrodynamic loudspeaker including the motor. The motor includes a magnetic circuit assembly arranged about a motor axis. The motor includes: a magnetically permeable top plate, a magnetically permeable bottom plate, a magnetically permeable member disposed between, and magnetically coupled to, the magnetically permeable top and bottom plates, a center pole piece and an air gap for receipt of a voice coil. The motor also includes an outwardly projecting magnetically permeable member, or hat, arranged above a top of the air gap. The center pole piece includes a permanent magnet, such as a Neodymium magnet or a Ferrite magnet, extending axially from at least the bottom of the air gap to a magnetically permeable bottom member or to the magnetically permeable bottom plate.