I wanted good speakers, but couldn't find any that fit exactly what I wanted. So I started looking up today how to make my own. This led to me trying to discover what method of cabinet would give me the best quality audio for my driver. This in turn led to me finding this video: World's Second Best Speakers! - YouTube
This vid taught me a lot: wavelengths, construction and deconstruction, porting transmission and horns. From there, I decided to keep reading, which is how I discovered BIB, folded horn, backloaded horns, and a few others.
The main things I took from the video:
- having your two soundwaves exist together at matching wavelengths by measuring the deconstruction and construction of your driver and designing a "tube" at a certain length for it to pass through.
- Using curved aluminum sealed with DB dampening glue to plywood helps increase the quality of the sound as it travels through the "tube"
- What materials should be used in constrained layer damping (in the vid he outlines how to make it better than just MDF)
Here are my questions:
- I have seen people state that the open fiber-filled top design of the Voigt is not necessary. After researching a lot of contemporary designs this seems to be true, as nearly none of them have included it, but I'm unsure why. I believe the BIB does not use an open top design. Could someone help explain?
- I read that the human ear picks up the most discrepancies between 20 and 300hz. Is this true?
- If so, I have also read the the Voigt lessens quality in low frequency sounds because of how it exits through the bottom.
- I have read that many drivers are not designed for a Voigt cabinet style, but I am unsure of what I should be looking for under specs of a driver to determine what cabinet type would best suit it.
All of this is the basis of my understanding so far. I have done around 7 hours of research today, and I just started on this project. I was considering using a design with the voigt or BIB, but using curved aluminum in a pattern similar to that of a turbo for a car (or the golden ratio) to amplify the sound as it leaves negating the decrease in quality of frequencies between 20 and 300 hz.
You guys are the kick *** dudes that I've been reading from the past 7 hours, so I made an account to hopefully have you guys help me in my quest to create a kick-*** audio cabinet system!
(PS GM you are a legend.)
This vid taught me a lot: wavelengths, construction and deconstruction, porting transmission and horns. From there, I decided to keep reading, which is how I discovered BIB, folded horn, backloaded horns, and a few others.
The main things I took from the video:
- having your two soundwaves exist together at matching wavelengths by measuring the deconstruction and construction of your driver and designing a "tube" at a certain length for it to pass through.
- Using curved aluminum sealed with DB dampening glue to plywood helps increase the quality of the sound as it travels through the "tube"
- What materials should be used in constrained layer damping (in the vid he outlines how to make it better than just MDF)
Here are my questions:
- I have seen people state that the open fiber-filled top design of the Voigt is not necessary. After researching a lot of contemporary designs this seems to be true, as nearly none of them have included it, but I'm unsure why. I believe the BIB does not use an open top design. Could someone help explain?
- I read that the human ear picks up the most discrepancies between 20 and 300hz. Is this true?
- If so, I have also read the the Voigt lessens quality in low frequency sounds because of how it exits through the bottom.
- I have read that many drivers are not designed for a Voigt cabinet style, but I am unsure of what I should be looking for under specs of a driver to determine what cabinet type would best suit it.
All of this is the basis of my understanding so far. I have done around 7 hours of research today, and I just started on this project. I was considering using a design with the voigt or BIB, but using curved aluminum in a pattern similar to that of a turbo for a car (or the golden ratio) to amplify the sound as it leaves negating the decrease in quality of frequencies between 20 and 300 hz.
You guys are the kick *** dudes that I've been reading from the past 7 hours, so I made an account to hopefully have you guys help me in my quest to create a kick-*** audio cabinet system!
(PS GM you are a legend.)