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In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Kirkegaard's loudspeakers (a nobler Tannoy)Posted by Paul S on: 3/1/2007
I am just reminded of the long-since-superceded (naturally...) 10" Tannoy "mid-field" "pro" monitor. I think it was the TM10, which also used it's cabinet to very good effect, at least in terms of voicing. You want "bubbles", I want pitch accuracy. I have for some time loosely held on to the notion that a 10" driver is "easier" to voice to/with an enclosure, mainly due to its inherent ability to "pitch" itself better than other closeted direct radiator wide-range drivers. I find most (OK, all) commercial speakers in all price ranges to be energy-deficient or very screwed up in relative lower-MF/upper-bass. Even those speakers often described as "warm" seem to me generally to have at least an apparent "suck-out" in lower-MF. This Tannoy I mention may also be deficient in this area, but at least it generally respects voices and instruments within a quite FR, which is more than most of the "tuned-type" enclosures can do, in my experience.
As I run through my mental catalog of speakers germane to this discusion I am reminded of very few (OK, none) that actually meet your criteria; but I can mention these few that are perhaps worthy of consideration in terms of "effective" limited use of cabinet resonances.
While continuing to reminisce about my cabinet "bracing" experiments, I remembered that the brace not only damped/modified the "targeted" resonance but it also actually introduced a whole new set of resonances because 1) it divided the panel it was attached into new resonant "zones"; 2) the jack/brace itself served as a "hot spot", or a sort of acoustic path or lens to/at the surface for another pretty much unpredictable resonance that in some cases became more apparent than the frequency I had set out to tame.
Best regards,
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