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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Speaker vent placement question
- Message-ID: <C19zHJ.BMI@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <C19v5p.IzJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:53:42 GMT
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- In article <C19v5p.IzJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> wakeland@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ray s wakeland) writes:
- >Recently someone asked how the placement of a speaker port affected its
- >performance. Dick Pierce wrote that the placement of the port has little
- >effect, and also that it is a bad idea to put the port on the back of a
- >bookshelf speaker which will probably be put against a wall. (I hope I got
- >that right! I've seen what happens to people who mis-quote Pierce.) I can
- >also see why a designer of a larger floor-standing speaker would put the
- >port in back. For example, the drivers of my B&W DM640's cover most of the
- >front surface of the speaker, so it is probably just easier to put the port
- >in back. This speaker is not meant to go near the wall.
- >
- >I am mistified, however, by the Energy 22.3's. These speakers have TWO
- >ports, one in front, below the woofers, and one in back in the center of the
- >speaker. Why would they do this?
-
- There may be a variety of reasons. There's no reason, first of all, you
- can't use two port, properly sized, instead of one. Now, if the enclosure
- resonance is low enough so that the two ports are a small fraction of a
- wavelength apart, put them where you want. There are some issues about
- mutual vent coupling and driver-vent coupling, but they are a small part
- of the total volume velocity contribution by the entire system.
-
- >Another question:
- >About the same time, there was much bashing of piezo tweeters. My last
- >speakers were a used pair of Dalquist DQ-10's, which I believe made quite a
- >splash in the mid 70's. They were 5-way speakers, with a piezo tweeter at
- >the very top. Why? (multiple choice)
- >a) Dalquist was foolish.
- >b) It was 1973, and the piezo was the best he could get.
- >c) Dalquist was an exceptional designer who managed to use the piezo tweeter
- >effectively dispite its drawbacks.
- >d) Other
-
- Yes :-)
-
- Current piezo tweeters are just as bashable now as they were then. I
- cannot guess why John Dalquist used them. I cannot see them has having any
- place in a reasonable speaker system. They are, however, the ultimate
- indestructible driver, it would seem.
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