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Topic: | Inwall/Inceiling subs This thread has 18 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 19. |
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Post 16 made on Friday December 20, 2002 at 20:39 |
thxinstaller Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2002 10 |
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Jeff, are you joking about hidng a powered sub in a cabinet thing? I hope so. Sounds like the old "enclosure within an enclosure" situation which is far from being the best.
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Post 17 made on Friday December 20, 2002 at 21:20 |
Jeff406 Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2001 55 |
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Thxinstaller, When I wrote that I should have mentioned that we put the powered sub inside cabinets with speaker cloth doors. Obvioulsy we would not put a sub in a closed solid door cabinet. The cabinet people that we work with on custom jobs have been great with fabricating speaker clothed doors where ever we need speakers, and the cloth doors are also good about passing ir signals to equipment behind them as well and eliminating the need for Ir repeater systems.
Sorry I was not clear.
Jeff
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Post 18 made on Saturday December 21, 2002 at 03:56 |
PHSJason Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | December 2002 994 |
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The "enclosure within an enclosure" refers to the bandpass effect that is created when you place any speaker box inside another box even if it is open on the front. The cabinet volume, shape, and even material it is made from will effect the sound being produced by the subwoofer(not to mention the possibility of induced noise created by rattles or hums from the cabinet itself). Sometimes this will make the sub louder at certain frequencies, sometimes it will make the sub sound muddy or flat. Next time you do this, run an RTA on the room with the sub in the cabinet and then pull the sub out of the cabinet and RTA it again. You shouldn't even need the RTA to hear the difference. I have seen installs where the cabinet so adversely effected the subwoofer that the sub sounded better with a solid door in front of it with the door closed. In the average install, this approach will work becuse the average customer doesn't know thatit can sound better, but in a high-end, custom theatre, this is another compromise that shouldn't be made before all other options have been explored. Note however that if you are planning on the cabinet as the sub location from the design stage and you are having the cabinet built to house the sub, you can take steps to insure that the sound produced will be what you want.
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Post 19 made on Sunday December 22, 2002 at 18:21 |
NY hifi Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2002 43 |
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Boston acoustics just came out with floor and in wall subs. They had them on display at Cedia. The in floor sub has a selection of grilles that look like HVAC vents. The sound was incredible. The sub amp has variable controls also.
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