Hello,
I'm planning to build my first set of speakers and after quite a bit of research I decided to start the DIY journey with the Classic Golden Ratio dMar-Ken7.3.
Now the question is: what should be taken into consideration when choosing between the wide or slim version (where the latter is essentially a wide version vertically rotated by 90 degrees)? Do they have different characteristics, especially in the bass and imaging department? Or is it speaker placement/room characteristics dependent? Or the whole question is a matter of aesthetics?
Thanks for helping me to make an educated decision!
I'm planning to build my first set of speakers and after quite a bit of research I decided to start the DIY journey with the Classic Golden Ratio dMar-Ken7.3.
Now the question is: what should be taken into consideration when choosing between the wide or slim version (where the latter is essentially a wide version vertically rotated by 90 degrees)? Do they have different characteristics, especially in the bass and imaging department? Or is it speaker placement/room characteristics dependent? Or the whole question is a matter of aesthetics?
Thanks for helping me to make an educated decision!
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Laszlo,
The primary difference between wide & narrow is where baffle-step loss happens. The wide will be a bit over an octave lower, and if placed near the wall, that will reduce the need for baffle-step compensation (note that we rarely use any).
The CGRs are all wide and shallow as a default.
dave
The primary difference between wide & narrow is where baffle-step loss happens. The wide will be a bit over an octave lower, and if placed near the wall, that will reduce the need for baffle-step compensation (note that we rarely use any).
The CGRs are all wide and shallow as a default.
dave
Thanks Dave! I much prefer the wide baffle aesthetically and based on my readings about baffle-step loss I supposed it can go lower -- very nice to get confirmation for you, that it actually does.
"if placed near the wall, that will reduce the need for baffle-step compensation" -- Does the placement of port/slot opening has any relevance here?
"if placed near the wall, that will reduce the need for baffle-step compensation" -- Does the placement of port/slot opening has any relevance here?
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Does the placement of port/slot opening has any relevance here?
You don't want to block it. If close to a boundary you might get a little lift at the tuning frequencies.
dave
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