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more questions [message #37352 is a reply to message #37348] |
Wed, 17 July 2002 13:40 |
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Need tutorial - (read the info, still lost) hehe If I take a 12 inch woofer with these specs. qts .32 vas 124 liters fs 37hz 94db Where exactly do I enter this numbers in pialign? Low mid or high mid sections? What do I enter for low cut/high cut? What if I want sealed not ported ? After entering the data, the program will output the best box dimensions? Will it tell me f3? Confused
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more answers [message #37354 is a reply to message #37352] |
Wed, 17 July 2002 14:40 |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
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Enter Vas into PiAlign's "Vad" field, Fts into the "Frd" field and 1/Qts into the "Qd" field. Also input the number of woofers you plan to use, usually 1. You'll need to enter Imperial measurements for Vas, so enter 4.34. Frd = Fts, so enter 37. Qts = 0.32 so enter 3.125 for Qd. If you're using a single woofer, enter 1 for "Qty." No other items are really important for PiAlign's cabinet computation, except volume offset fields which are at the bottom right corner of your screen. Those can be calculated separately pretty easily, and all the rest of the items are informational only, so you can maintain a database of your designs. PiAlign recommends a 1.4 cubic foot box, tuned to 45Hz for this woofer. To see the response curve of this alignment, use BoxPlot or something like that to model the cabinet and predict response.
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Bigger bottle, shorter neck [message #37369 is a reply to message #37362] |
Wed, 17 July 2002 22:07 |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
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A cabinet sized 53" X 18.5" X 7.125" is about four cubic feet, outside dimensions, so the cabinet would be tuned lower if it used the same port. But you'd lose bass response because the cabinet would be be tuned too low to do much good. Assuming a few hundred cubic inches are displaced by components inside and by wood thickness, your cabinet is 3.5 cubic feet. So to tune this for 40Hz, you'll need to shorten the port to 5" long, assuming the same rectangular W x H dimensions of 3.5" x 6.0." That will tune it to the same frequency as the "stock" Professional Series four π speaker, and it will sound pretty good. A 2226 works very well in cabinets from 2.0ft3 to 5.0ft3 tuned to 40Hz.
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