What ever happened to Snail Shell enclosures?

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Here is my marble hybrid horn.....got great numbers out of it last season.....too bad its been superceded by a wall in my jeep //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Click this link to check out the pix http://video.snoopdan.com/teamdailyforum/viewtopic.php?t=19

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

not nessiciarialy.

its just another type of horn. as long as the "lense" of the horn is there. like in a trumpet, or anything like that. its considered a horn. just like crossovers have different slopes, or ported boxes have different tuning, or there are different kinds of bandpass boxes, there can be different kinds of horn loaded enclosures.

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

bla bla bla.
its a transmission line horn thing. you cant get over it. it has some weird taper in the throat of the lense like a horn and then a transmission line looking port.

what else are you going to call it then?

a loaded port ported box?

A Worthless gimmick? lol

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

Lawl!

 

[Volenti 10+ year member]

"snailshell";

SPL transmission line;

front horn under construction;

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

snail shells aren't horns, they aren't transmission lines, they are crap //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

To me, it is not a horn unless you can actually load it.

In which case, good luck making a horn in a vehicle.

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[Volenti 10+ year member]

snail shells aren't horns, they aren't transmission lines, they are crap //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Yea that's why I put snail shell in quotes, the OP wanted to see some different enclosure types, so there they are.

 

[JeremiahCoffel 10+ year member]

They look very complicated, how do they compare to a regular ported box? Do they hit a lot lower?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

snail shells aren't horns, they aren't transmission lines, they are crap

I've been thinking that too. But chances are the people who buy them don't really care if they differ from a TL or not, they're just concerned with how "hard it bumps" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

In which case, good luck making a horn in a vehicle.

Is that a challenge?

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[newusername 10+ year member]

I've been thinking that too. But chances are the people who buy them don't really care if they differ from a TL or not, they're just concerned with how "hard it bumps" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif


Is that a challenge?

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If it's in the van, you've got a shot //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

If it's in the van, you've got a shot //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

or station wagon....

rear loaded in both cases...

sedan or hatchback is too small...

 

[prochobo 10+ year member]

"snailshell";

How is that "snailshell" any different from a regular ported box?

 

[Volenti 10+ year member]

How is that "snailshell" any different from a regular ported box?

The port is long and large enough for the 1/4 wave effects in the port it's self to effect the response (the port resonates like in a pipe organ, in addition to, but in a different way from how it resonates with the enclosure tuning), the result is significantly different from a box of the same net volume with the same tuning but using smaller, shorter (normal) ports.

 

[Celly 10+ year member]

id like to try a ss, wanna give me plans?

If you read that really quickly, it can very easily be taken the wrong way...