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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
thansk guys.
one more question, how much does the shape of the box matter? there are a few ways i coudl build for the application, a tube would be very easy, a cube would work, a box that is deeper than wide would work. would any particular format sound better or worse over another?
right now i am jsut trying to get down the basic concepts. this is for an on again, off again project that i am supposed to do for a friend. i figure if i learn about all the stuff now and he finally decides not to do it, i cna still make the set up for myself just to see if i cna make it work.
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tubes work good for frequency response, but cylenders create reverb over distance as the sound wave folds over itself. Would be cool for tweaters, but not bass enclosures. Cubes would be bad. You'd get standing waves on all sides and the box would litterally vibrate louder than the sound wave when it hit those certain wave lengths. So if the side to side standing wave was say 20Hz and the front to back 30Hz and the top to bottom 40Hz, anytime any of those frequencies was produced by the speaker, the box would rattle louder than the music. Create something with no right angles, thats how we design all the recording studios. If you go into a big pro studio, you'll feel a little weird at first as all the walls are on angles lol Try something looking like a trapazoid laying on its side almost. Flat bottom, slightly slanted front thats shorter than the back and narrower than the sides, top that slants upward to the back, and sides that slant inwards to the front.