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In the Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems
Post Subject: Considering that I am jaded about ported sound generally…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/18/2008

I do not know what the Fs of the drivers that will be using. I did not measure them yet.  I have one of them in ¼ cub feet box with a port making 65Hz and two of them in 1/2 cub feet box making 38Hz. If I found more of the them then will be unit 4 of them per box, so I presume that I will be able to go quite low in 2-3 cub feet box. If I do have a notion in my head that the ported bass will suck anyhow then why do not get a full bass?

Well, here where I hit a problem. The “suck ported bass” is not a Boolean but it has moderation and it might be “the better crappy ported bass” and “worse crappy ported bass”. The keys in it are some kind of agreeable with subjective results moderation that would greatly depends of the specific implementation.   If you look at the LBJ, Petar and few others who try to help me in the MiniMe thinking then it is obverses that there are some “kinks” that would move the posted bass from “bad” to “horrible” but I am affair that without the trials and actual evaluation of the results it is very difficult to say how it will works, particularly if I am willing to get MORE bass and to drive the port resonance all the way down as far as the array of the 4 driver permits me.

So, at think moment I think where the get those drivers of mine and when I get them then I will come up with some kind of steel enclose the THEN will be bitching to anyone that it sounds very “porty”. However, the single 4” woofer that I found in ¼ cub feet with port (with temp tweeter), even those it has all characteristic of the “bad port sound”,  still does excellent in context of the requirement and defends I impose to the  MiniMe acoustic system. If I have in my final MiniMe version the same LF Sound that I am getting now from ¼ cub feet box (I hope to get less port noise due to 4 drivers and much larger enclosure) then supplementing with much-much better tweeter and spiced some interesting techniques the those woofer allow to employ (Some form of the “Resonant Oops”) I feel it will be happy like clam.

The caT

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