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- From: tonyb@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Tony Berke )
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: AC Sub-1 Design queries (was Re: Amplified SubWoofer )
- Message-ID: <TONYB.92Nov18193232@oberon.juliet.ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:32:32 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: wkb@cbnews.cb.att.com's message of 18 Nov 92 03:24:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.032446.6570@cbnews.cb.att.com> wkb@cbnews.cb.att.com (wm.keith.brummett) writes:
-
- In article <TONYB.92Nov17165451@oberon.juliet.ll.mit.edu>,
- tonyb@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Tony Berke ) writes:
- >
- > Isn't the AC Sub-1 the "synthesized bandpass" (Floor-firing, funky
- > crossover) thingy?
-
- Yup. AC has all sorts of marketing appellations scattered throughout
- the Sub-1's literature. From what I gather, the "Synthesized Bandpass"
- (tm) stuff is a combination of the crossover, and six of what AC calls
- "aperiodic vents" (I call them 3/8" holes) in the cabinet. And, BTW,
- they don't *have* to be floor-firing, though mine are for convenience.
-
- > I thought the passive crossover had more to do than just low-pass
- > filtering the output.
-
- The Sub-1 crossover has a low-pass section for the sub driver, a high-
- pass section for a satellite ("main") speaker, and a terminal that can
- be strapped to the input terminal for "upper bass adjustment"...
-
- Now an interesting thing is that AC cautions us in the plans to *not*
- defeat the passive crossover in favor of an active crossover box...
-
- My guess is that the "synthesized bandpass" aspect of the AC system
- means that the low-pass filter kicks in a bit early relative to the HP
- section for the satellites. That would cost a bit of efficiency, and
- make the bass response appear to extend a bit further. I read the
- Speaker Builder article as well, and nothing I saw there explained to
- me why one couldn't duplicate this sort of filter behavior (or just
- about any other passive filter behavior, for that matter) using an
- active box. Unless the crossover has a really high series resistance
- on purpose to change the system Q, what's left that you couldn't copy?
-
- I'm curious to know if it really is a matter of convenience that the
- SB-1's are floor-firing. I would think it would change the woofer's
- loading a bit, and the size of the slot made between the floor and the
- bottom of the cabinet might make a low-pass filter that at the very
- least ought to filter out some of the woofer's higher-order distortion
- products.
-
- Yo, where's Dick Pierce when you need him? Off making money or
- something? What a nerve!
-
-
- Tony
-