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In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.
Post Subject: The mid-bass laboratoryPosted by jessie.dazzle on: 5/24/2010
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I realize the question as to how you will get mid-bass (horns vs other solutions) is still open.
If you do go ahead with horns, you should be able to make them so that they'll accept most any 15" driver, which means you could use the horns in making the decision on drivers.
If you go with some sort of direct radiating enclosure, then you'll likely have to decide on drivers ahead of time in order to get the volume of the box right for the driver.
About your experiment: Sort of a brilliant approach, but the improvised baffle and any wind outside may be eating up tone. You might consider buying a 4x8 sheet of 3/4" CDX plywood (cheap, rough, for exterior use), cut a hole in it, and use it in place of the improvised baffle (still placed in the sliding doors).
Alternatively, you might cut the plywood to fit exactly into an interior doorway (not the sliding glass doors), cut a hole in it, mount it so that it closes off the doorway to a room, then mount the driver. You could of course do the same with a cheap door, but they are hollow.
Later you can use the plywood for an instant, erect-as-needed audio work bench, supported on folding metal saw horses and a couple 2x4s studs; keep the round cutout as a trap door, it will come in handy.
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