Wayne Parham Messages: 18787 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Do you have any measurement software?
You could always try it and see how it measures.
I'd hate to cut the baffle and discover it had anomalies though. I'd prefer a restoration to original the three-way design than I would trying to make a DI-matched two-way design out of it and find it had standing wave ripples.
This isn't an indication that the original design overlooked the possibility of standing waves, by the way, When a speaker is a three-way design, the woofer doesn't run as high so the cabinet interior doesn't have midrange energies presented to it.
The sensitivity to standing waves is introduced when making a two-way speaker in a large cabinet.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that if you were OK with experimenting with the cabinet, you could try cutting the baffles. It's just I wouldn't want to ruin them if they turned out not to work well as a two-way.