Modified Scintilla - MRTW in front of Bass Ribbon

[narkotic]

Hi all - curious what you think of this weird idea I had: The Apogee Scintilla's are known for being very wide. I was curious if it would make sense to build an apparatus (no idea how to tackle this yet) that places the MRTW array in "front" of the woofer and making the crossover external?

I don't think the pressure generated from the woofer ribbon will cause the MRTW array to move too much.

Thoughts? I'm not a speaker designer to curious to hear from the experts how it would affect the sound in a negative / positive way and also want to hear from the fabricators on how I could even accomplish something (chassis-wise).

Thanks!

 

[Groove T]

I think, the effect of woofer pressure is the same like on the side, since the fRes of the MT is lower than 50 Hz.

But if you make the body smaller, there will be some loss in deep bass efficiency, since open baffle is smaller.

And imho it would look ugly.

X-over external is not wrong. Makes sense if you make one with parts of bigger size.
Otherwise just make the wires longer.

 

[DeltaStar]

I don't think it's a good idea, the bass panel has enuf output to blow the ribbons around on low bass notes, I read it like you want to move the mrt in front of the bass panel, I agree with T, it would look ugly 🙂

 

[Davey]

Your objective is to make the horizontal polar response symmetrical?

Dave.

 

[Groove T]

I forgot to mention, if done this way, the di and bipole effect of the MRTW Array will be almost away. Imho a clear trade off, since the spatial sound of the Apogees is in a class of its own, at least for my taste.

 

[narkotic]

Thanks guys!