before I start cuttin'............

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zipidachimp

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before I start cuttin'............
« on: 3 Aug 2007, 06:01 pm »
noob here, ready to go...from this and other boards, Ive learned:

speaker placement: offset to inside

mounting: flush, not surface mount

wings: long wing to outside, short wing to inside

yes, measure twice, cut once!

anything else?  anything wrong?

inspiration:  "jamo R909",   but I'll be using one fullrange.   Ciao! :P


gooberdude

Re: before I start cuttin'............
« Reply #1 on: 3 Aug 2007, 10:30 pm »
Yes.....have fun.       aa


Try and keep the wings the same initially, but allow for a lot of wing configurations.   i found the same sized wings on both sides worked best and that any attempt to make wings more than 4" wide really hurt things.   Also, wings need to be pretty close to the driver sometimes, not more than 6" - 8" away.  BTW - wings should be an afterthought in a way.  the main baffle should be capable of getting you 90% of the way 'there'...ie, wings won't 'save' a bad performing baffle IMO.

Also, try a small lid on top.  4" - 5" wide and the width of the baffles.   Somehow keeping the front and back waves from joining forces up top raises the soundstage a bit.   For the design of mine that's posted in another thread, the lid made a much bigger effect than the side wings.   cancellation of the front & back waves is the enemy of any OB design but on the same side of that coin larger baffles create reflective surfaces which'll hurt performance.  I prefer small baffles to large one...

Just going off my OB experiences this year, try and smooth all hard edges too.   no 90 degree angles.    let the design 'flow' so that the sound waves aren't mucked up.

Last, don't be afraid to add some absorptive material on the finished baffle...   this is one of those 'you gotta hear it' tweaks, but for some reason it works very well for OB designs.   If you've experienced the same listening room with an acoustic treatment installed & un-installed, and can recognize what occurs, adding felt or some other material to the front & back of the baffles is a similar thing - just on a much smaller level.  more control, sweeter sound, drivers disappear, etc..


zipidachimp

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Re: before I start cuttin'............
« Reply #2 on: 4 Aug 2007, 08:48 am »
thank you, headin' back to the drawing board. may use the wings to hold up the board. may also source some of that pointy foam that people put on top of mattresses, for the back, and only if I can find it in 'black'.  the front still has to look good! :P

 

JLM

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Re: before I start cuttin'............
« Reply #3 on: 4 Aug 2007, 11:41 am »
The absorptive material on the front of the baffle keeps down reflections from the other speaker. 

Play around with MDF first (start big, then scale down one speaker at a time).