Same Old DD
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Not sure that I can fully address your question, because mine are still kind of in the larval stage, using a 3x plywood barrel shaped mock up with stood up 2x4 construction lumber as a base for mass and stability.
I front mounted mine, but one thing I noticed right away was some unwanted reflections from the baffle.
As a leather hobbyist, I had some extra leather laying around and I cut a four inch border of leather in the barrel shape to place around my drivers as a way to inhibit the panel reflections. I know a lot of people use that closed cell foam for this, but I would have had to order some and wait.
I have used leather in the past to do the same thing as foam padding around drivers to soften panel reflections and also inside compression drivers when you can no longer attain the proper factory prescribed foam to rebuild vintage compression drivers.
I don't have a way to take it off and put it back on and make a judgement. I only have the memory of how it reflected without the leather. I'm keeping the leather in place for diminishing the panel reflections from the front mounted F15 drivers for now.
I have a feeling that if you rear mount them you will have a similar issue, which few have talked about, but it will be a bit different in scale, I'm sure. Rear mounting the drivers and dramatically rounding over the front escape for the driver would certainly lessen or diminish the front panel reflections by some degree.
Good luck and good sound!
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