So the question is what can you do when your manifold for an IB sub is too big for the wall space available? In the particular situation I am looking at the wall in question has built in book shelves and cabinets over most of the area. Of course you could remove the cabinets or bookshelves but the powers that be would be unlikely to approve. So there is several inches of space below the cabinets. So one wonders if you could use that space as a snout for entry. It would kind of resemble an odd slot loading or a bandpass of sorts. I am not sure how to model it in Hornresp but perhaps something like a MLTL but only the port enters the room.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
OK, but is the chamber the one the driver is located in? If so, then the driver needs to be mounted to the back of the duct, making it a quasi-BP4.
The chamber the driver would be mounted in would be a two stall garage. The IB manifold corresponds to the front chamber and the smaller area "snout" that extends into the listening room would correspond to the port but external to the front chamber.
What it really amounts to is a standard IB manifold but instead of one whole side being open to the listening space a smaller slot port connects it to the listening room.
Actually if you have ever seen those TL subs that are a cube where the driver mounts and a long smaller line that slides under the couch from the end. However in this case the "box" would be in the garage and only the line extends into the listening space.
My gut tells me that is not going to work that well and that I need the slot into the listening space to be big enough to be a straight manifold.
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