Infinite baffle modeling?

You cannot "model" an infinite baffle. An IB is exactly what it says - infinite. If you put it in an enclosure - ANY kind of enclosure, you will NEVER get IB response. No matter how big the box. Your speaker will always be in a box that is simply too big, but NEVER in a true IB, unless you put it in an IB.It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

I'm trying to remember where I saw this, but something tells me that 56 cu ft is used if you want to see how the driver should respond in IB.  At least that figure was used by the author of the article I read.  But if you're mounting this in your vehicle, you should just measure the approximate cubic feet that will make up the enclosure.Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

IB = Free Air. Their designed to operate in an enviroment that is not air tight.Jeff

Velocity Custom Home Theater

Mobile Audio/Video Specialist

Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Modeling IB systems is easy.  Use 10X the Vas of the woofer (as this is also the minimum air volume required for the installation.)  IB in a vehicle is rather difficult, by the way: unless you have a really large trunk you may not have 10X Vas available.  Plus, it's not really "free air" as in order to work correctly, the IB front wave and rear wave must be completely separated and sealed off from one another.  This means you can have no air leaks between the front and back of the woofer.  The best way to accomplish an IB installation in a car would be to mount and seal the speakers into the roof of the car with the magnets facing out into the air.  Not very practical.    IB is a true basshead's solution, by the way. as it is perhaps the most efficient way to use a woofer.  The downside is the speaker will quickly reach its mechanical limits and you have to under-power by about 1/3 the RMS value to protect the driver, and IB mounted speakers are far more prone to distortion than any other alignment, which is why often multiple drivers are used (additional db before distortion sets in.)  IB usually requires some fairly sophisticated EQ capability to make them sound right.  Lots of home theatre IB lovers use the Behringer "Feedback Destroyer Pro" as a multi-band low-frequency parametric EQ for their IB systems.  Again, not practical in a car.Support the12volt.com

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I don't know why it posted on me, I didn't mean to make two.  Anyway, I thought of a fairly simple solution to just try them out.  I'm going to make some small boxes of mdf that would equal the airspace I'd have in the doors or pods I could make.  then just listen to them.  Duh."I'm Rick James bi***, enjoy yo' self Ah Ah Ah"

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