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In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Borges' loudspeakersPosted by Paul S on: 2/28/2007
Romy, does it not seem that the things you hear with ported bass would only be magnified/multiplied if you added significant enclosure resonance up the frequency range? I am the same way with horns, in the sense that I hear the damn horn itself at any frequency that it manifests itself. I have always thought that speaker building was pretty much choosing which problems - including resonances - you can live with. So I am wondering whether you imagine some sort of vario "tuning", like Horning's big guns, for example. While I agree that the sound we get from hi-fi is in any case severally conditioned and compromised, including resonances added and lost, still I see only an endless labyrinth ahead for those trying to tune a "musical"" speaker cabinet, apart from adjusting for ~ incidental resonance.
Perhaps if one began by wading in, as in your case of adding adjustable braces to a sloppy box. We used to do this many years ago with our A-7 bins, and we used any number of screw-type "jacks" to "tune" the boxes. Even then opinions raged back and forth over the "dead/neutral" versus "live/instrumental" approaches to speaker building. Most of the heavy hitters back then unabashedly built "musical instruments", and if memory serves me these speakers were not only quite "colored" but, perhaps more important here, they lent the same "colors" to everything they "played", meaning this type of speaker tends very much to "favor" a given instrument at the considerable expense of others. I should say add that I also consider the "dead/neutral" approach (like the AR) to be pretty much of a bust, as well.
Please do not think from my observations that I eschew this idea. In fact I the whole notion is so romantic that it pulls me like gravity. I also find this interesting in terms of resonance "controll" through "tuning". But I worked with this idea for several years in my youth, and I have heard lots of tenders along these lines, and I have not yet heard any version of this concept that brought me more/better music, per se, albeit I did in times gone by just relax and let the "musically-conditioned" sound wash over me. Probably better than Bose.
Best regards,
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