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[chrisb]

Originally Posted by thetubeguy1954

Actually if I were most guys I'd show that photo to my wife FIRST and then I'd ask her isn't she happy how little I've kept my audio system for her?

Thetubeguy1954 (Tom Scata)

"see Honey, I told you small can be good"

[nuconz]

Originally Posted by chrisb

Sorry, I guess I consider some of these designs way over-engineered /built - this isn't the Space Shuttle -

And I'm yet to be convinced that no matter how achieved a "dead" cabinet is essential. The most "dead" speaker enclosure I've ever (not?) heard was one diamond cored from a basalt rock pillar - actually a very pretty piece of work. Of course this was a DIY/artisan project, but perhaps due as much to use of SEAS Excel series drivers and less than stellar XO design as to the enclosure materials, it was as musically moribund as it was acoustically inert - it made sound, but there was just no synergy.

what about this?


over engineered?

dead?

[planet10]

Not in the sense that Chris means. And from the picture, likely under engineered for the energy it needs to contend with.

Does give you an idea of how big a bass horn needs to be. If one assumes free-air use, extension limit on the bottom estimated at 35 Hz (if the female is 5')

Will require digital delay.

dave

[nuconz]

Originally Posted by planet10

Not in the sense that Chris means. And from the picture, likely under engineered for the energy it needs to contend with.

Does give you an idea of how big a bass horn needs to be. If one assumes free-air use, extension limit on the bottom estimated at 35 Hz (if the female is 5')

Will require digital delay.

dave

maybe we need to use some concrete to make it truly inert?

[doorman]

Concrete's been done too, by at least one (short lived) commercial venture.
OTOH, anyone remember the various Rogers speakers?-- they were the furthest thing from inert, but they made music!
don

[chrisb]

Originally Posted by nuconz

what about this?


over engineered?

dead?

certainly an extreme performance concept - over-engineered to the specific goal? who knows

"dead"? - quite possibly not -
does that matter? - sorta my point - were is the threshold at which striving for that becomes a diminishing return?

Originally Posted by doorman

Concrete's been done too, by at least one (short lived) commercial venture.
OTOH, anyone remember the various Rogers speakers?-- they were the furthest thing from inert, but they made music!
don

or DCM Time Windows / Spica SC50 - essentially sectioned Sonotube with particle board baffles and solid wood end caps -

or British Tangent speakers circa 80s - thin and strategically braced

[vinylkid58]

Originally Posted by nuconz

maybe we need to use some concrete to make it truly inert?

LOL! Must be a b**ch on the hills.

jeff

[Cal Weldon]

It would be if it were made of concrete. I think I see a seam in the wood on the top.

[nuconz]

Originally Posted by chrisb

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"dead"? - quite possibly not -
does that matter? - sorta my point - were is the threshold at which striving for that becomes a diminishing return?

dead as inert or dead as in frivolous attempt?

it seemed the original statement indicated inertness of the enclosure.

[FRUGIVO]

lowther ex4 in hedlund horn