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In the Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems

Post Subject: "Hope" is for the enslaved (and promise of Change is for the hopeful)Posted by Lbjefferies7 on: 5/18/2009

Well, the only thing I can think of is to seal them and keep 'em that way. I've made only a couple of vented enclosures and they have all ended up being sealed or severely aperiodic. Even if the Mini's are moved back, it is unlikely that they would be acceptable...better, but probably not right.

I might keep the SS amp that drives MiniMe all time on that would damp the MiniMe’s bass drivers... If to be VERY crazy I might have negative output impedance on this SS amp that would hold the MiniMe’s bass drivers “unresonanceable”. Hold on, did I juts “invited” a way to dynamically tune a Helmholtz Resonator?

I don't think that's enough. The drivers and enclosures lead fairly separate lives. If you were to short the drivers, the enclosures will continue to make noise, perhaps just at a lower amplitude and higher frequency. They would probably work something like bass traps and we all know how fucked those things are. Maybe I'm totally wrong but Helmholtz resonators are like politicians...any intelligent person quickly abandons hope, and is very seldom surprised.

LBJ

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