question about chambers

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

so if i buy a vented tweeter, then i DONT need a chamber

A vented tweeter would have the voice coil exposed to air pressure and it needs

it's own chamber to prevent the other drivers from physical destruction. ie,

get an air gun and inject the nozzle in the back of a vented tweeter and watch

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i am just trying to figure out how these projects are done

You are the designer, you can do anything you want. But to prevent headache,

there are some basic rules to follow.

Another example, you have a large high excursion woofer in the same

box as a open back midrange. Before turning on the music, push the woofer

cone in/out and watch your midrange cone move. Not sweet. Imagine what

happens to the little poor midrnage at high excursion.

Even some planars have gasket material to seal off the diaphram but in some

rare instances there may be an air leak. Air pressure will destroy your planar.

It's better to make a small chamber to isolate it from the rest of the drivers.

 

[jaygeorge1979 10+ year member]

so what your saying is, whether or not i need chambers is directly related to the physical build of the drivers involved...i need to make sure i know whether or not the drivers need seperate chambers prior to box building...in some cases, in a 3way system, i might need 3 seperate chambers, small one for a tweet, medium size for mid, and the rest left to the woofer...which, when i calculate total volume, should be at the acceptable internal volume for each driver.....i think i understand