Rear mounted horn enclosure bose 5" speakers

[TimpBizkit]

That's not a folded horn, more like a giant ported. The path is too short and the mouth is too small, and also there is not enough throat resistance. The point of a horn is to load down the driver more than open air would, then transmit that load to the air as sound. You want a small driver to move a huge funnel of air in front or behind it. This enclosure provides hardly any driver resistance.

[v8malibu]

@TimpBizkit Actually its more like a rear mounted horn enclosure tuned to a mid frequency but nice try. Come again!

[TimpBizkit]

@v8malibu well it's somewhere between a rear loaded short 'horn' with large compression chamber, and a high tuned flared port enclosure. I tried to build a transmission line enclosure bookshelf speaker once in an attempt to roughly copy a bose waveguide but failed miserably due to inaccuracy with cutting.

[gfhnk]

Thats prolly awesome!

[FPEvideos]

well... i found his video... heres the the end of the link. Just put the usual youtube dot com at the front

/watch?v=EKFp11nxhNI

[asmordi]

you should of pot the speakers on the top of your box ,but it's a cool box at the end!!!

[asmordi]

your box is not gonna do more bass

[v8malibu]

@asmordi wtf go back to grade one

[waylan3]

DONT GIVE ME NO BULL SHIT WHERES THE FINISHED BOX VIDEO BRO

[v8malibu]

@waylan3 wtf look on my page and you will find it BRO!!

[thingsdemystified]

@v8malibu Maybe you could give us the link to the video. I can't find it.

[FPEvideos]

@thingsdemystified hey... i found it.. /watch?v=EKFp11nxhNI

[v8malibu]

@v8malibu type this in the youtube search:

horn enclosure modified

[jcrobso]

All of that work for crappy BO$E speaker?

[leswoodies2]

Finaly found someone that isn't in a hurry once the glue is on! ;)

[LaZyLuke]

that comment made me actually LOL... ;]

[gazr52]

Obviously I don't know which model speaker the drivers were taken out of?

The newer drivers in the pro gear, like the ones used in the MB4 have pretty wacky xmax.

What I mean is usually a horn enclosure, well a folded horn directly usually tries to limit excursion which is one of the reasons they don't hit too deep, but can get pretty loud.

That's not to say you can't use higher xmax, but generally it doesn't add much benefit but again that depends on the enclosure.

[v8malibu]

Folded horn enclosures can be tuned to any frequency you want although tuning outside the audible range is usually not desired. As for folded horns not hitting too deep I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe I should have been more specific with the designation of my enclosure as well..being that it is a rear mounted folded horn with a compression chamber. This type of enclosure can when properly engineered to have the output of roughly 16 of these drivers.

[v8malibu]

Furthermore these enclosures do not "limit" the excursion of the driver but rather they control the travel path of the engine. The frequency response of horn type enclosures operate much more linearly and efficiently then ported or acoustical suspension type enclosures which tend to have a narrower pass band with a substantial peak at a certain "tuned" frequency. As for a higher XMAX not adding much benefit.....pick up a book and read about the generation of low frequency sound waves.

[432621]

@v8malibu please Send me the plans pleaaaasE!!!!!

[v8malibu]

@432621 This enclosure was a very poor subwoofer enclosure so not sure why you want the plans for it. It was tuned far too high to accurately reproduce sub bass frequencies but it sounded good over 200Hz and up to 10kHz.

[gazr52]

Hmmm wondering if it will work well in a horn because Bose drivers, well bass ones anyway have high xmax usually.

[v8malibu]

These speakers actually don't have much of an Xmax and the surrounds appear to be a fabric material that has no stretch to it at all. What does Xmax have to do with a speaker being used in a horn enclosure. Just because concert base bins typically have a low Xmax doesn't mean that it is a bad thing for horn enclosures. In fact DB Drive competitors typically choose drivers not only for power handling and control but also for an increased Xmax. Cheap crap will always fill industry enclosures.