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4th December 2012, 01:52 AM #76Senior Member
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I found that to be interesting reading with no surprises but I was disappointed that nothing was said about systems without cabinets which is what I want to study because as I've said earlier, it goes against everything that I've ever learned about loudspeaker system design.
Harry
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12th January 2013, 04:43 AM #77New Member
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Hi there,
Admiring your artistic talent and sketchup skills. Also admiring the drivers you've acquired... some of the best money can buy. Flipping through the pages of the post, I found myself really looking forward to seeing the build progress to a finished product... you can imagine my disappointment when I got to about page 5... NO WOOD?!! ) Whadda you mean no wood??? Where's the thingy's gonna go???
On a somewhat serious note, being an acoustic engineer, I can see some issues with your no baffle idea. It won't give you the sound you were hoping for, at least not below about 2.5kHz, where you're likely to cross your RAALs. Open baffles are a somewhat different story, but the response will not only depend on the length & shape of the baffles, but also the size, shape and finish of the room and the speaker positions within the room. It's finnicky.
An unmounted driver cone is a "dipole" source, compessing air on one side of the cone while rarefacting it in on the other as it oscillates. The baffle prevents the high pressure air to "leak" to the low pressure at the back and vice versa. The leakage is the worst when the edge of the baffle is less than half a wavelength away from the speaker cone. With wavelength being inversely proportional to the frequency, the lower the frequency, the greater the baffle dimensions required. (i.e. Speed = Frequency x wavelength, where speed is a constant at ~340m/s). With a no-baffle situation, the air is just going to be moved backwards and forwards around the edges. You'll likely end up with a very inefficient speaker with horrible, frequency dependant off-axis directionality.
To add to this, although driver properties (cone suspension stiffness and damping, excursion etc) determine if they're "best" suited to sealed or ported box applications, most can usually be used in both. The leap from drivers in enclosures to open baffles is much greater, requiring a completely different driver design (stiffer suspension, longer travel etc). If you want to design high end speakers to rival your Cremonas, you may need to understand more of the physics behind loudspeaker design (acoustics, vibration, electrical systems) and check what the drivers you bought are best suited for. You may even want to invest in a loudspeaker design software package down the track (SoundEasy, LspCAD, LEAP to name a few), so you can model everything from enclosure design, driver characteristics and crossover design to room characteristics and loudspeaker placement within the room prior to building them. Some of the packages also combine ability to measure various driver / box / room properties as well as measuring the finished speaker response. A word of caution tho, I would strongly recommend brushing up on loudspeaker design theory (if you haven't already) before sinking any coin into design programs. They require a fair bit of background knowledge to master... especially SoundEasy.
Anyhow, good luck, and I look forward to some progress in the new year.
Cheers
Boyan
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18th September 2013, 05:14 PM #78
Catch up time.
Howdy scratcher, how is the project? Did you bring it to a conclusion or is it still evolving?
I've been a mite busy over the last year or so, with my current build being a set of PMS speakers.
Heres where I'm up to at the moment.
DSCF7467.JPGDSCF7482.JPGDSCF7483.JPGDust Mite...Terrorising noses for the discerning...
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28th March 2015, 11:41 AM #79Senior Member
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Hey Dust Mite. Project is still ticking along... I am just putting some final touches on a CNC I built from scratch. Now I can build whatever I want
First audio project is to build some lute shaped cabinets for the 18" bass drivers. I am still running open baffle speakers after all these years.
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4th January 2017, 08:12 AM #80
Yo headscratcher ... you ever finish this project?
How about a sitrep, its been nearly 3 yeras now.Dust Mite...Terrorising noses for the discerning...
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22nd April 2017, 04:14 PM #81Senior Member
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Dust Mite I have procrastinated and procrastinated until I think I have run out of excuses to make. I haven't used the CNC in 12 months since my last water pump died. Sick and tired of being slack I have ordered some bits to get the CNC going again and get some of these projects back on track. All going well I should have most of the parts I need to get the CNC going again in the next two to three weeks. I am also trying to fix up many of the half finished things on the CNC like limiting switches and drag chains. I have built a new Z axis out of block of billet alloy which got rid of all the chatter problems I had and I got around to putting the second X axis ballscrew in so now it stays more square driving evenly from both sides. Promise by the end of May it will be working and woodchips will fly.
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