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Best small speaker enclosure design8/25/2023 ![]() Where many speaker designers don't also design the woofers, midranges, and tweeters used in their speakers, Jones is one of the few who designs entire speakers: the cabinet, crossover networks, and all of the drivers in his ELAC speakers! We ran out of time to discuss that in detail, maybe Andrew and I will chew on that next time. No wonder speaker design is so complex, every choice affects other choices. Of course the design of a speaker's woofer, midrange, and tweeter play huge roles in the overall sound. So it seems every aspect of speaker design affects the sound quality of the whole speaker. If that happens with your speakers you need to turn down the volume or buy bigger speakers! The listener's subjective reaction to all of that is a loss of dynamic life to the sound of music or movies. While the midrange drivers and tweeters temperature rises may be smaller the loss of dynamics might be evident when music is played very loud for more than a few minutes, and that would temporarily reduce or compress the music's dynamics. An exponential folded horn is probably the most efficient design and the most difficult to manufacture.There are a number of reports that state stepping the sides to replicate a folded exponential horn makes no perceivable difference to the bass. ![]() Jones mentioned that when they test drivers in the lab with lots of power he can't immediately touch the driver's frame, it's too darn hot! 95 of the cost of commercial box speaker manufacturing is in the box. No worries, when the driver cools down the speaker's sound returns to normal. ![]()
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