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			| A couple questions about Pi-alignment [message #42549] | Tue, 23 September 2003 18:40  |  
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					|  Tightwad Messages: 41
 Registered: May 2009
 | Baron |  |  |  
	| I am designing an enclosure for a high-Q full-range driver, simple BR design. In terms of calculating the optimum enclosure volume, resonance, and bandwidth, is the Pi-align whitepaper the best source?  I only ask since it is dated 1979, wondering if it is state-of-art for Pi-alignment. Also, in the formulas on page 5, I don't recognize some of the parameters from the typical T/S params. Anyway, any advice would be appreciated.
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			| C4, B4, QB3 and EBS [message #42554 is a reply to message #42552] | Wed, 24 September 2003 10:39   |  
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				|  |  Wayne Parham Messages: 18977
 Registered: January 2001
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	| If you're interested in looking at several alignments, I suggest reading Davies' T/S implementation, and studying the popular generalized alignments such as C4, B4, QB3 and EBS.  Davies was the one responsible for suggesting a popular critically damped alignment, used in several modern software packages, and based on prior work by Thiele and Small.  Thiele and Small described the relationships between motor cabinets and electro-mechanico-pneumatic specifications, but they focused mostly on the relationship and its effects on response, not so much on specific alignments.  A couple of specific alignments were mentioned, but most popular alignments are implementations based on their prior work. 
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