what's special about bandpass boxes?

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Topic: what's special about bandpass boxes?

Posted By: s_goodie
Subject: what's special about bandpass boxes?
Date Posted: December 02, 2007 at 6:24 PM

what about bandpass boxes make them so special

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Stuey BABE

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: December 02, 2007 at 6:58 PM

There is nothing special about bandpass enclosures. They work differently than other alignments, but what specifically makes you ask?

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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 12:44 AM

Now, come on, DYohn...

You KNOW that bandpass boxes are special in the respect that they can TOTALLY destroy any semblance of quality bass, are perfectly at home hiding woofer distress noises, more than capable of annihilating any woofer if even SLIGHTLY mis-tuned, and just generally sound more like crap than ANY other alignment... TRUE one-note-wonders! What other alignment offers all these features? I'd say that's pretty special! posted_image

They do offer very good efficiency, if nothing else.

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 10:05 AM

Silly me. Thanks for the assist, haemphyst. posted_image

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Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 11:26 AM

haemphyst wrote:

Now, come on, DYohn...

You KNOW that bandpass boxes are special in the respect that they can TOTALLY destroy any semblance of quality bass, are perfectly at home hiding woofer distress noises, more than capable of annihilating any woofer if even SLIGHTLY mis-tuned, and just generally sound more like crap than ANY other alignment... TRUE one-note-wonders! What other alignment offers all these features? I'd say that's pretty special!

They do offer very good efficiency, if nothing else.

No, no. It's much simpler than that, they can be found at every swap meet, flea market, and big box store with two 12"s for $50...

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Posted By: wolf56
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 2:45 PM

and there bigger/bulkier and a pain in the *** to deal with??? i had my koiiler in one, made it overheat very fast... i do like how they make "crap" subs sound a little louder though... and they look cool and get some oOoOo's and AhHhH's from ppl who dont know better

Posted By: dragon51
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 5:09 PM

Thanks, haemphyst I really enjoyed your post I am still laughing posted_image

Posted By: jfinks
Date Posted: December 03, 2007 at 7:16 PM

Back in the day they allowed you to port into a courger rear package tray or any other thin rear package tray without cutting. In a 7th order (ok I haven't counted order since...well a longtime...)you would send one port up for the back wave and one port up for the front wave. Of course each at a different frequency so you would have a 2 note wounder. Now this is back in the eithies/nities and were learning about such things. Now you point the woofer towards the back, leave the grill in place with no speakers and your are done....

The advantage now is to make a highly in-effient speaker sound louder at the sacrofise of fidelity

Did I get it right?