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- THE MOST COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT BUILDING ENCLOSURES
-
- Many JBL users build their own loudspeaker enclosures. Their audio
- skills range widely from novice to expert. From the thousands of
- letters and calls we have received addressing the subject of
- loudspeaker enclosure construction, we have determined the most common
- questions and present the following Questions and Answers. The
- particular questions listed attempt to answer as many questions as we
- feel are necessary to provide enough information to build an enclosure
- which will allow your JBL loudspeaker to operate to its potential. The
- questions selected here concentrate on vented "bass reflex" enclosures,
- since low frequency horns are fairly complex, and many good tested
- designs exist. Also, it is often more econonomical to buy a bass horn
- enclosure than to build one. Vented box enclosures are by far the most
- popular enclosure type. Vented boxes are finding increasing use by
- touring sound companies, displacing existing horn enclosure designs
- because of the greater low frequency power output and extended low
- frequency capability they offer when used in arrays. In addition to
- their simple design requirements, vented loudspeaker enclosures offer
- flexibility of design in shape, weight and component complement, and
- usually produce the best results obtainable from modern loudspeaker
- drivers at the lowest cost.
-
- [1]
- Q: What makes a good vented enclosure?
-
- A: Basically, an enclosure serves to partition the front and rear of
- the driver's cone, preventing the opposing air pressure changes
- produced by cone motion from cancelling, and allowing the radiation of
- sound from the front of the driver only. In addition, vented
- enclosures allow the compressibility of the air inside the enclosure to
- work as a more active part of the "system" consisting of driver and
- enclosure. Beyond these two basic functions, a low frequency
- loudspeaker enclosure should do absolutely nothing, that is, it should
- add no effects of its own--no vibration, no tonality, no motion--
- nothing to interfere with or absorb acoustic energy produced by the
- driver.
-
- [2]
- Q: Is it possible to get low, punchy bass from a small enclosure?
-
- A: Yes, if the driver in the enclosure is designed for low bass
- operation in a small enclosure. Unfortunately, it's usually a small
- driver that can work properly in a small enclosure, and that dictates
- that lower sound levels will result from the small amount of air such a
- small driver can move. Larger boxes (with larger bass drivers) produce
- more bass, smaller boxes produce less bass. It's a fact of life, like
- the fact that it takes a bass viol, a tuba, longer piano strings, or
- very large organ pipes to produce bass energy in the air. Low bass
- requires that more air move, and bigger boxes contain more air that can
- be put to work making low bass.
-
- [3]
- Q: Can I get more bass from my enclosure by installing a bigger driver?
-
- A: A given enclosure will not automatically produce more bass when a
- larger driver is installed, in fact the opposite is often the result.
-
- [4]
- Q: What about putting two drivers in the enclosure to increase bass?
-
- A: Placing two bass drivers in an enclosure designed for one will
- usually produce less bass and more midrange output, and will upset the
- operation of the driver-enclosure system because each driver will
- behave as though it is installed in an enclosure which has only half
- the internal volume of the original enclosure (with one driver).
-
- [5]
- Q: What should I do to use two drivers (for more bass)?
-
- A: There are two alternative possibilities. When using two identical
- drivers, you can build an enclosure with twice the internal volume of
- the original enclosure that contained one driver, or you can duplicate
- the original enclosure and stack the two. As the latter alternative
- suggests, when building the double enclosure, it's necessary to treat
- the enclosure as if it were two enclosures--you must double the porting
- used on the single smaller enclosure--although it is not necessary to
- divide the volume of the double enclosure unless two different driver
- models (e.g. E130 and E155) are used and their interaction would be
- undesirable. A usable example of this might be a 227 liter (8 cubic
- foot) enclosure divided into two chambers so that the E130 occupies 57
- liters (2 cubic feet) and the E155 occupies 170 liters (6 cubic feet).
- In this case, the ports tuning either chamber to the same desired
- frequency will be quite different.
-
- [6]
- Q: What does port or enclosure "tuning" mean?
-
- A: In exactly the same way the resonant note from a bottle can be
- raised and lowered by adding or pouring out liquid to change the
- bottle's air volume, enclosure tuning is affected by the ratio of air
- volumes in the port (the bottleneck) with its attendant flow
- resistance, and the enclosure interior volume. Tuning of loudspeaker
- enclosures is a result of manipulating the differences in effective air
- mass between the enclosure interior and the air in the port. The
- bottle-like nature of a vented enclosure is known as a "Helmholtz
- resonator." The ports or ducts in a vented enclosure work only over a
- narrow band of frequencies near the chosen tuned frequency, producing
- the same effect noted when blowing across a bottleneck--a single
- distinct pitch.
-
- [7]
- Q: Is it always necessary to use a port for good bass?
-
- A: JBL uses vented enclosure designs because they are superior to
- sealed enclosure designs in several important ways--as long as it is
- possible to tightly control the loudspeaker driver parameters in
- manufacturing as JBL does. Vented designs produce lower distortion at
- the lowest operating frequencies, afford the driver protection against
- mechanically destructive large cone excursion, and better enable the
- driver to absorb and utilize its full power rating from an amplifier
- when operating at low frequencies. It is important to keep in mind
- that porting and tuning an enclosure provides air loading for the bass
- driver down to frequencies just below the Helmholtz frequency, but does
- not provide any loading for the driver at frequencies below that, such
- as subsonic turntable rumble, record warp or microphone wind pickup.
- If you intend to operate a sound system at high power levels, we highly
- recommend an electronic high-pass filter to eliminate subsonic input to
- the power amplifier(s). This will substantially increase the available
- useful power from the amplifier which will then only operate in the
- audible frequency range. Such a filter is the UREI model 501 Sub Sonic
- Processor, or the built-in sub-sonic switches of the JBL Electronic
- Frequency Dividing Network model 5234A.
-
- [8]
- Q: Where should I locate the port(s) with respect to the woofer?
-
- A: Bass reflex enclosures are usually designed to tune from about 100
- hertz and down. The length of sound waves at these low frequencies is
- over 11 feet, so port placement is not critical. Ports may be located
- anywhere on the baffle with no change in bass performance; some designs
- even locate ports on the back of the enclosure which works well as long
- as the enclosure is not close to a wall (a couple of port diameters
- away) and there is an unobstructed air path between the woofer and the
- port. Overall, it's safest to locate the port somewhere on the baffle
- with the woofer(s) far enough away from side walls to avoid interaction
- between port and enclosure wall or the fiberglass insulation on the
- wall.
-
- [9]
- Q: What should the ducts be made of? Is round better than rectangular?
-
- A: Port ducts may be made of anything rigid, such as paper cardboard
- with about a 1.5 mm (1/16") or larger wall thickness. They can be any
- shape, square or rectangular (such that port area remains constant) and
- made of wood or other suitable material. It is not necessary to use
- PVC pipe for port tubing, particularly when most carpet stores throw
- away large amounts of heavy carboard tubing of between 3 and 4-1/2
- inches inside diameter.
-
- [10]
- Q: What is the relationship of duct length to port area?
-
- A: When port area is increased, independently of other factors,
- enclosure tuning is raised. If duct length is increased, independently
- of other factors, enclosure tuning is lowered. To keep the same tuning
- (Helmholtz frequency) you will need to increase duct length as you
- increase port area.
-
- [11]
- Q: How big should the port be?
-
- A: The bigger, the better. Any port causes some resistance to air
- movement, and so introduces unavoidable losses in output to the system
- as a whole. The ratios of port area and length and enclosure volume
- determine the Helmholtz frequency tuning. Mechanical reactance
- elements, stiffness and air mass, control the effective air mass
- ratios. At very low operating levels, where air in the port does not
- move very fast, a small short port will behave the same as a large
- longer port as far as enclosure tuning is concerned. At high power
- levels however, the restricted air flow of the smaller port will
- produce output level losses, some de-tuning and at high enough levels a
- small port will cause the enclosure to behave like a sealed enclosure
- with little or no contribution from the port. To minimize resistive
- losses, the largest practical port should be used. Computer listings
- of port choices calculated to limit air velocity inside the port duct
- will list duct sizes which are normally impractical. A 380 mm (15 in)
- diameter port is not an unreasonable choice for a 380 mm bass driver,
- however the necessary length would dictate that such a port might
- itself have a volume of many cubic feet, sometimes equal to or larger
- than the original enclosure. A good rule of thumb would be to avoid
- ports whose circular area is smaller than at least 1/3 the diameter of
- the driver such as a 127 mm (5 in) diameter port for a 380 mm (15 in)
- driver. This will usually provide sufficient port area so that the
- port will not "whistle" when the system is operated at high power
- levels near the helmholtz frequency--a sure indication of severe system
- losses and potential power compression and low-frequency output
- limiting.
-
- [12]
- Q: Can I use several smaller ports instead of one big one?
-
- A: Yes, however there is a phenomenon associated with air resistance
- resulting from air drag on the internal surfaces of port ducts and
- turbulence at the ends of the ports that requires a duct length
- correction when several ports are used. For example, when using four
- 100 mm (4 in) tubes instead of one 200 mm (8 in) tube (which has the
- same port area but one-quarter the internal surface area), the length
- needed will be slightly less than that needed for the single 200 mm
- tube, perhaps 5% to 10% less, depending on overall enclosure volume.
- These effects exhibited by port ducts is exaggerated by proximity of
- the duct to enclosure interior surfaces or any other type of boundary
- that may cause air turbulence near the end of the duct, therefore it's
- important to keep duct ends away from the rear of the cabinet or other
- obstructions by an amount at least equivalent to or larger than the
- dimension across the port. If you are using a rectangular port that
- has as one of its sides, an enclosure wall, you might have to use some
- correction.
-
- [13]
- Q: Is there a simple mathematical way of designing proper enclosures?
-
- A: Yes, a JBL scientist, D.B. Keele Jr., simplified the work of A.
- Neville Thiele and Dr. Richard Small so that anyone with a pocket
- calculator and a ruler or straight edge can design the right enclosure
- volume and choose the right port or duct for a given loudspeaker
- driver. JBL offers, at no cost, a four-page "kit" containing detailed
- step by step instructions, written specifically for non-mathematicians,
- showing how to use published Thiele-Small driver parameters in
- enclosure design. Examples are shown with their results graphically
- represented. An enclosure design flow chart and enclosure venting
- nomograph are included.
-
- [14]
- Q: Should the enclosure's baffle be removable?
-
- A: This is a question of mechanical strength and rigidity. All
- enclosures, particularly those intended for rough portable use, should
- be constructed with all sides permanently fixed by glue and screws, and
- sealed air-tight by virtue of well cut and glued joints. It is
- preferable to mount loudspeakers from the front of the baffle board to
- eliminate the possiblity of reflections from the inside of the
- loudspeaker mounting hole, thus it becomes unnecessary to provide for
- removing the baffle. Woofer openings are usually large enough to reach
- through in order to work inside the box, for example, to install other
- components.
-
- [15]
- Q: Is there a preferred shape for loudspeaker enclosures?
-
- A: There are a number of shapes that improve performance and some that
- cause distinct degradation in performance. For single, full-range
- drivers (e.g. JBL's LE8T) a sphere is the ideal shape for an enclosure
- because the curved surfaces avoid the diffraction effects of cabinet
- edges, which bend sound waves in a manner dependent on frequency. For
- multi-way loudspeaker systems, spheres are usually impractical because
- of the large size needed and because of the precise orientation
- required for optimal listening. Conventional enclosures work best
- mounted flush into a wall where diffraction is controlled by virtue of
- the wall surface, and for free-standing enclosures, tilting, angled and
- curving surfaces may be employed to help reduce or control edge
- diffraction. The overall shape of the enclosure is relatively
- unimportant except where the shape makes it difficult to build a rigid
- enclosure. It is best to avoid enclosure dimensions that are multiples
- of each other, such as 1 X 2 X 4 ratios, and strive to use dimensions
- that have somewhat unrelated ratios such as 1 X 1.23 X 1.41.
-
- [16]
- Q: What is the best material to use for building enclosures?
-
- A: For home and permanent installation use, high density particle wood
- is the most cost-effective material for general enclosure construction.
- The best wood to use for portable enclosure construction is 14 to 20
- ply per inch Finland birch type. Birch plywood is very expensive
- however, and a carefully braced enclosure made of high grade void-free
- fir plywood can do the job just as well in most cases. The thicker you
- can make the cabinet walls, the better the results will be because of
- reduced wall vibration and resonance, but the tradeoff is cost and
- weight. Enclosure walls should be cut so that edges form an air-tight
- seal when glued together. Cleats and caulking can also be used if
- needed to insure a good fit and tight air seal.
-
- [17]
- Q: Is bracing necessary? How much should be used?
-
- A: Bracing should be added to the enclosure interior to minimize
- enclosure wall vibration. Enclosure walls simply cannot be stiff
- enough since wall vibration indicates that energy is being wasted to
- move enclosure panels rather than moving air. 25 X 76 mm (1 X 3 in)
- pine bracing fixed on edge with glue and screws to the enclosure walls
- will help provide the minimum necessary stiffening without affecting
- the internal volume significantly. If you are building large subwoofer
- enclosures, bracing with two-by-fours works better, though you should
- take the bracing volume into account since a 3 m (10-foot) length takes
- up 12.9 liters (0.36 cubic foot) of enclosure volume.
-
- [18]
- Q: How should I mount drivers on the baffle?
-
- A: Mount drivers on the front of the baffle whenever possible to avoid
- the reflections from inside the mounting hole. Heavy drivers should
- normally be front-mounted using Tee-nuts and machine screws or JBL's
- MA15 clamps. If Tee-nuts are used, apply a bit of Bostic or Pliobond
- type rubber glue to the inside of the nut flange to help avoid losing
- the Tee-nut inside the enclosure when installing the driver. Baffle
- board construction is much easier if all baffle parts are assembled
- prior to final box assembly.
-
- [19]
- Q: Do I need fiberglass inside the enclosure?
-
- A: JBL uses a 25 mm (1 in) padding of 1/2-pound density fiberglass
- stapled to the enclosure interior on all surfaces except the baffle.
- You should use 100 mm (4 in) thick dacron or 25 mm (1 in) fiberglass on
- at least three of the surfaces of parallel interior walls. Keep sound
- absorbing materials away from the port(s) as the air velocity inside
- the port can be sufficient to tear off bits of the material and squirt
- them out of the enclosure. It is not necessary to cover the inside of
- the baffle, but doing so will rarely degrade system performance. The
- enclosure exterior may be covered with your choice of any suitable
- finish or decoration; this will not affect bass performance and in some
- cases (as with Formica) may help stiffen the enclosure walls.
-
- [20]
- Q: Does Fiberglass significantly affect enclosure tuning?
-
- A: No, not unless the enclosure is stuffed full of fiberglass, in which
- case the apparent volume of the enclosure increases by 12% to 20% as
- seen from the point of view of the bass driver. Stuffing the enclosure
- full with fiberglass is not recommended because it introduces system
- losses, is expensive and interferes with port operation. The exception
- to this would be a sealed "air suspension" type system enclosure where
- more virtual volume is needed and actual volume is not available,
- and/or where box dimensions which are multiples of each other can't be
- avoided and the fiberglass stuffing will help absorb the internal sound
- reflections.
-
- [21]
- Q: What is needed to mount a midrange on the baffle with the woofer?
-
- A: For cone-type midrange drivers, a sealed sub-chamber should be used
- to prevent interaction with the enclosure's bass driver. JBL drivers
- suitable for sealed-chamber midrange use require only 10 to 40 liters
- (.3 to 1.0 cubic foot) of chamber volume to operate at typical midrange
- frequencies, above 200 hertz. Subchambers should be constructed
- solidly and liberally lined with fiberglass. As in the case of
- enclosure shapes, avoiding multiples of dimensions, subchambers should
- be built so as to avoid square and cube shapes in favor of non-related
- numerical ratios.
-
- [22]
- Q: Is there any special procedure for mounting a horn in an enclosure?
-
- A: Use of a horn/compression driver does not require any subchamber
- since these devices form their own air-tight seal. JBL horns such as
- the 2344, 2370, MI-291 and 2380 horn family also seal their own cutout
- opening in the enclosure when properly mounted on the baffle. Better
- compression drivers are quite heavy, so a brace should be provided to
- cradle the driver to prevent driver movement during shipping. In
- combination with the length of a horn as a lever, driver mass can cause
- the assembly to tear off the baffle or break the horn if the enclosure
- is handled roughly or dropped. Driver mass can also tear off the horn
- throat if cabinets are dropped on their backs.
-
-
- CONVERSION CONSTANTS and USEFUL DATA
- ____________________________________
-
-
- LITERS FEET^3 INCHES^3 METERS^3 MILLIMETERS INCHES METERS
- ___________________________________ _____________________________
- 1.00 = .03531 = 61.0 = .001 1.00 = .039 = .001
- 28.32 = 1.00 = 1,728 = .02832 25.40 = 1.000 = .0254
- 1000.00 = 35.31 = 61,016 = 1.00 1000.00 = 39.370 = 1.000
-
- TO FIND SOUND WAVE LENGTH: divide velocity of sound by frequency (Hz)
- (SOUND VELOCITY = 344 m/s, 1130 ft/s or 13,560 in/s)
-
- AREA OF CIRCLE = 3.14 x (radius squared) Note: radius = 1/2 diameter
-
- TO FIND THE DIAMETER OF A CIRCLE WITH EQUIVALENT AREA:
- 2 x square-root of (area divided by 3.14)
- example: area of 9" tube = area of 8" square duct calculated:
- (area) 64/3.14=20.37, square root = 4.51 x 2 = 9.03 (diameter)
-
- VOLUME OF CYLINDRICAL DUCT = circular area x length
-
- VOLUME DISPLACED BY JBL LOUDSPEAKERS: 8" = .05 cu ft, 10" = .1 cu ft,
- 12" = .15 cu ft, 15" = .2 cu ft, 18" = .3 cu ft.
-
- JBL LOUDSPEAKER MOUNTING HOLE AND BOLT CIRCLE DIMENSIONS:
- mounting holes:
- 8" = 7-1/16" 10" = 9" 12" = 11-1/16" 15" = 13-31/32"
- 18" = 16-13/16"
-
- bolt circles:
- 8" = 7-5/8" 10" = 9-3/4" 12" = 11-9/16" 15" = 14-9/16"
- 18" = 17-3/8"
-
-
- BIBLIOGRAPHY of RECOMMENDED AUDIO REFERENCES
- ____________________________________________
-
- FOR AUDIO NOVICES:
-
- BOOKS:
-
- David B. Weems, "Building Speaker Enclosures," Radio Shack
- publication, stock# 62-2309
-
- "The CAMEO Dictionary of Creative Audio Terms," Creative Audio & Music
- Electronics Organization, 10 Delmar Avenue, Framingham, MA 01701
-
- F. Alton Everest, "The Complete Handbook of Public Address Sound
- Systems," Tab Books #966, Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214
-
- David B. Weems, "Designing, Building & Testing Your Own Speaker
- System," Tab Books #1364 (this is the same as the Weems book above)
-
- Abraham B. Cohen, "Hi-Fi Loudspeakers and Enclosures," Hayden Book Co.,
- 0721
-
- Alex Badmaieff and Don Davis, "How to Build Speaker Enclosures," Howard
- W. Sams & Co., Inc., 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46268
-
- Bob Heil, "Practical Guide for Concert Sound," Sound Publishing Co.,
- 156 East 37th Street, New York, NY 10016
-
- PAPERS:
-
- Drew Daniels, "The Most Commonly Asked Questions About Building
- Enclosures," JBL Professional, 8500 Balboa Blvd., Northridge CA, 91329
-
- Drew Daniels, "Using the enclosure design flow chart," JBL
- Professional, 8500 Balboa Blvd., Northridge, CA 91329
-
- FOR EXPERIENCED AUDIO PRACTITIONERS AND HOBBYISTS:
-
- BOOKS:
-
- Jens Trampe Broch, "Acoustic Noise Measurement," Bruel & Kjaer
- Instruments, Inc., 185 Forest Street, Marlborough, MA 01752 (617) 481-
- 7000
-
- Howard M. Tremaine, "The Audio Cyclopedia," 2nd Edition 1969, Howard W.
- Sams & Co., Inc., 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46268
-
- Arnold P. Peterson and Ervin E. Gross, Jr., "Handbook of Noise
- Measurement," General Radio, 300 Baker Avenue, Concord, MA 01742
-
- Martin Colloms, "High Performance Loudspeakers," A Halstead Press Book,
- 1978 John Wiley and Sons, New York and Toronto.
-
- Harry F. Olson, "Modern Sound Reproduction," 1972, Van Nostrand
- Reinhold Co., New York.
-
- Harry F. Olson, "Music Physics and Engineering," Dover Publications,
- 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014
-
- Don and Carolyn Davis, "Sound System Engineering," Howard W. Sams &
- Co., Inc., 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46268
-
- F. Alton Everest, "Successful Sound System Operation," Tab Books #2606,
- Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214
-
- PAPERS:
-
- Drew Daniels, "Notes on 70-volt and distributed system presentation,"
- for the National Sound Contractors Association Convention, September
- 10, 1985, JBL Professional, 8500 Balboa Blvd., Northridge, CA 91329
-
- Drew Daniels, "Thiele-Small Nuts and Bolts with Painless Math,"
- presented at the 70th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society,
- November 1981 AES preprint number 1802(C8).
-
- FOR ENGINEERS:
-
- BOOKS:
-
- Harry F. Olson, "Acoustical Engineering," D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.,
- 250 4th Street, New York 3, NY 1957 (out of print)
-
- Leo L. Beranek, "Acoustics," Mc Graw-Hill Book Co., New York 1954.
-
- Harry F. Olson, "Elements of Acoustical Engineering," D. Van Nostrand
- Co., Inc., 250 4th Street, New York 3, NY (1st ed., 1940, 2nd ed., 1947
- both out of print)
-
- Lawrence E. Kinsler and Austin R. Frey, "Fundamentals of Acoustics,"
- John Wiley and Sons, New York and Toronto.
-
- N.W. McLachlan, "Loudspeakers: Theory Performance, Testing and Design,
- Oxford Engineering Science Series, Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1934,
- Corrected Edition, Dover Publications 1960.
-
- PAPERS:
-
- Don B. Keele, Jr., "AWASP: An Acoustic Wave Analysis and Simulation
- Program," presented at the 60th AES Convention in Los Angeles, May
- 1978.
-
- Fancher M. Murray, "An Application of Bob Smith's Phasing Plug,"
- presented at the 61st AES Convention in New York, November 1978.
-
- Don B. Keele Jr., "Automated Loudspeaker Polar Response Measurements
- Under Microcomputer Control," presented at the 65th AES Convention in
- London, February 1980.
-
- R.H. Small, "Direct-Radiator Loudspeaker System Analysis," Journal of
- the Audio Engineering Society (JAES), Vol. 20, p. 383, June 1972.
-
- Mark R. Gander, "Ground Plane Acoustic Measurement of Loudspeaker
- Systems," presented at the 66th AES Convention in Los Angeles, May
- 1980.
-
- "Loudspeakers," An anthology of articles on loudspeakers from the pages
- of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 1 through Vol. 25
- (1953-1977). Available from the Audio Engineering Society, 60 East
- 42nd Street, New York, NY 10165 Telephone (212) 661-8528
-
- A.N. Thiele, "Loudspeakers in Vented Boxes," Proceedings of the IREE
- Australia, Vol. 22, p. 487 August 1961; republished in the JAES, vol.
- 19, p. 382 May 1971 and p. 471 June 1971.
-
- Fancher M. Murray, "The Motional Impedance of an Electro-Dynamic
- Loudspeaker," presented at the 98th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
- of America, November 19, 1979.
-
- Mark R. Gander, "Moving-Coil Loudspeaker Topology As An Indicator of
- Linear Excursion Capability," presented at the 64th AES Convention in
- New York, November 1979.
-
- Garry Margolis and John C. Young, "A Personal Calculator Program for
- Low Frequency Horn Design Using Thiele-Small Driver Parameters,"
- presented at the 62nd AES Convention in Brussels, March 1979.
-
- Garry Margolis and Richard H. Small, "Personal Calculator Programs for
- Approximate Vented-Box and Closed-Box Loudspeaker System Design,"
- presented at the 66th AES Convention in Los Angeles, May 1980.
-
- Fancher M. Murray and Howard M. Durbin, "Three Dimensional Diaphragm
- Suspensions for Compression Drivers," presented at the 63rd AES
- Convention in Los Angeles, March 1979.
-
- R.H. Small, "Vented-Box Loudspeaker Systems," Journal of the Audio
- Engineering Society, Vol. 21, p. 363 June 1973, p. 438 July/August
- 1973, p. 549 September 1973, and p. 635 October 1973.
-
- JBL TECHNICAL NOTES:
-
- The following are available at no cost from JBL Professional:
-
- Vol. 1, No. 1 - "Performance Parameters of JBL Low-Frequency Systems"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 2 - "70-Volt Distribution Systems Using JBL Industrial
- Series Loudspeakers"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 3 - "Choosing JBL Low-Frequency Transducers"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 4 - "Constant Directivity Horns"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 5 - "Field Network Modifications for Flat Power Response
- Applications"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 6 - "JBL High-frequency Directional Data in Isobar Form"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 7 - "In-Line Stacked Arrays of Flat-front Bi-Radial Horns"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 8 - "Characteristics of High-Frequency Compression Drivers"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 9 - "Distortion and Power Compression in Low-frequency
- Transducers"
-
- Vol. 1, No. 10- "Use Of The 4612OK, 4671OK, And 4660 Systems In Fixed
- Installation Sound Reinforcement"
-
- Vol. 2, No. 2 - "JBL/UREI Power Amplifier Design Philosophy"
-
- Instruction Manual - "Motion Picture Loudspeaker Systems: A Guide to
- Proper Selection And Installation"
-
- "JBL Sound System Design Reference Manual" ($15)