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Romy

i will start building my first hornspeaker, going from theory ( surfing the net ) to practice. i am not pretentious regarding the result, i am very aware of my knowledge limitations and lack of experience, as i am just in the beginning. but the way is to try things out, and learn with the mistakes, and try to do things better  next time. As i am a machine designer, i love to design, and try to come up with something, that looks good too. The subject of the selection of wood interests me. Bert from Bd-design uses plywood for his Swing cabinets, and says :

The ultra rigid construction of the SWING system is achieved through use of multiple parts, CNC-routed from specially selected plywood. Each pair of the basic SWING enclosures is made from 154 parts involving 340 holes and 138 grooves - a very complex puzzle! The resulting enclosure plays a large part in the SWING's natural tonal character without adding any disturbing "noise" to the music.

What i do not understand, if the intern of the cabinet is damped with tyrofoam panels, do these not absorb the backfiring sound and most cabinet resonances ? so how does than the cabinet still play a role of the tonal character of the speakers ?

Angelo
 

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