Originally Posted By: sleddriver
Originally Posted By: grampi
There are a couple different ported enclosure designs suggested by Adire, but none for sealed...they list an enclosure VOLUME for sealed, but they give no dimensions...that's why I didn't think the shape of the enclosure mattered, only the volume...
Another clue to your problem...not all drivers are designed to fit into both sealed AND ported enclosures! Cone weight, suspension, motor (linear) parameters are different. Adire designed that driver therefore for a vented (4th order) alignment only.
There are box size calculators on the net.
I would believe that to be the case if 1) they didn't list any enclosure volumes for sealed enclosures (which they do), or 2) they would publish some type of a statement saying that this driver is only designed for ported enclosures (which I have not seen)...also, if they were only for ported applications, I doubt this would sound good...
http://www.n6eaj.com/diyaudio/sonotube/
Originally Posted By: grampi
There are a couple different ported enclosure designs suggested by Adire, but none for sealed...they list an enclosure VOLUME for sealed, but they give no dimensions...that's why I didn't think the shape of the enclosure mattered, only the volume...
Another clue to your problem...not all drivers are designed to fit into both sealed AND ported enclosures! Cone weight, suspension, motor (linear) parameters are different. Adire designed that driver therefore for a vented (4th order) alignment only.
There are box size calculators on the net.
I would believe that to be the case if 1) they didn't list any enclosure volumes for sealed enclosures (which they do), or 2) they would publish some type of a statement saying that this driver is only designed for ported enclosures (which I have not seen)...also, if they were only for ported applications, I doubt this would sound good...
http://www.n6eaj.com/diyaudio/sonotube/
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