bassboy
Ex Member
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Guys, I'm not sure you are fully understanding Jet's idea, either that or I'm not.
I am not picturing an open port on the front. He mentioned taking the rear chamber wave and porting it not to the outside, but rather around the outside of the box, then back into the box at the beginning of the throat to sum the front and back chamber waves together AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HORN, meaning both the front and back waves from the speaker would go through the horn.
There's got to be an prettier way to run the port than around the outside of the box, but that's design phase and this is still planning.
I've never heard of anything like this and it may be as big a breakthrough as Steve's SO. The problem is that it is impossible to model, as far as I know, and would be an incredible pain in the butt to try to optomize.
I have had thoughts in the past of a single driver with separate horns on both front and back of the driver to exact the same sensitivity advantage. Jet's idea is kind of the same but half the size and probably a much better idea.
I have since given up this idea as it is too risky and let's face it, the WO is fine the way it is. But Jet, if you can make it work it would be twice as loud, I'm guessing. It's probably worth the effort if you have spare wood and spare time but it's way to risky to get onto my project list.
EDIT - if I am understanding JJ correctly, he is actually talking about the single driver dual horn idea but closer to horn loaded on driver front, BR/TL concept for the driver back. Maybe not, I'm not sure. I have a feeling I might be way off on this but without pictures maybe I'm misunderstanding everybody.
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