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<blockquote data-quote="mat3833" data-source="post: 8781876" data-attributes="member: 587645">If you aren&#039;t power limited I don&#039;t see any real downside except MAYBE uneven loading on the cones if the angle is too small. It&#039;s kinda hard for me to wrap my brain around. One part of me says having the woofers compress air in that configuration would cause some odd interactions with each woofer and the small volume of air in the &quot;throat&quot; of the clamshellThe other part of me says that each woofer pair would add a little more energy to the volume of air in the throat and essentially increase output as well as efficiency. Air is a fluid as we all know. And when you have multiple pump outlets(think speaker cones) feeding a common chamber (think the throat of the clamshell), the water inside that chamber turns crazy turbulent as each pressure zone tries to find an equilibrium and efficient flow path. I had to do something like this at work with 8 diaphragm pumps feeding into a common pipe. Clustering them all together (space efficient) seriously jacked up the flow out of the system to the point we were running out of cooling water. But spacing them out and alternating left, right, left, right with some distance between them seemed to speed up the flow more than the individual outputs. Idk, clamshell enclosures work, we know they do. I&#039;m probably just over-analyzing shit like I always do. Matt</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mat3833, post: 8781876, member: 587645"] If you aren't power limited I don't see any real downside except MAYBE uneven loading on the cones if the angle is too small. It's kinda hard for me to wrap my brain around. One part of me says having the woofers compress air in that configuration would cause some odd interactions with each woofer and the small volume of air in the "throat" of the clamshell The other part of me says that each woofer pair would add a little more energy to the volume of air in the throat and essentially increase output as well as efficiency. Air is a fluid as we all know. And when you have multiple pump outlets(think speaker cones) feeding a common chamber (think the throat of the clamshell), the water inside that chamber turns crazy turbulent as each pressure zone tries to find an equilibrium and efficient flow path. I had to do something like this at work with 8 diaphragm pumps feeding into a common pipe. Clustering them all together (space efficient) seriously jacked up the flow out of the system to the point we were running out of cooling water. But spacing them out and alternating left, right, left, right with some distance between them seemed to speed up the flow more than the individual outputs. Idk, clamshell enclosures work, we know they do. I'm probably just over-analyzing shit like I always do. Matt [/QUOTE]

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