Have a ton of dayton bass drivers that need to be used. Hence option to go isobaric
Driver spec is 8 ohm, 85db.
For each cabinet, if I side mount two clamshell per side (4 groups, 8 bass drivers per cab) what sensitivity wd I get? Wd imagine parallel twice and series once to bring it to 4ohm.
Driver spec is 8 ohm, 85db.
For each cabinet, if I side mount two clamshell per side (4 groups, 8 bass drivers per cab) what sensitivity wd I get? Wd imagine parallel twice and series once to bring it to 4ohm.
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Came up with that too but not sure.. Wd first parallel keep sensitivity the same as single driver? Then theres baffle step loss to consider
Indeed. 😉 Sensitivity is usually for half space.
So if each clamshell is considered to be the same sensitivity as 1 driver, 0dB (also half efficiency but let's not go there). Then the top half here will be +6dB (half space). Then with half the drive Voltage it's additionally -6dB. After this, add the bottom half.
Which makes +6dB half space. At low frequencies that's 0dB.
You'll also have a box twice the volume of a single driver, and four times (+12dB) the excursion.