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What's up with tuning to 35hz?
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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8459774" data-attributes="member: 607015"><p>Not so much at home, but I like to force alignments in the vehicle. Once you understand the thermal and mechanical limits of any driver, you can make it do what you want as lone as you respect both thermal and mechanical limits. This assumes the driver is the type of driver that wants to see a vented alignment to begin with, proper Qts, BL... that sort of thing. The rest is down to what you're after in terms of total system requirements, combined with your personal tastes. I'm talking music here, bandwidth AND power.</p><p></p><p>I personally love the region between 15hz and 28hz so, naturally, I tune to around 16-22hz. This controls cone motion into the teens and gives me incredible output because the enclosure is obviously most efficient here. The only concern is thermal handling in this region. I tend to hand over freqencies above 50hz to my front stage so I cross at around 40-50hz. My total effective bandwidth is usually from 12Hz to 50Hz so the majority of driver excursion takes place in the small region above my low tuning point and this is now mainly limited by the enclosure size and my applied low pass freq/Q. The bigger the enclosure, the more likely the driver will unload above tuning if too much power is applied. So higher power, smaller airspace. Overall, for my bandwidth, great cone control and lower distortion while reaching down into the teens. Yes, you will give up some overall output but not as much as people think. This type of tuning is far louder to the ear than the mic and is much more useful for musical listening enjoyment anyhow.</p><p></p><p>People tuning @ 35 are missing out on quite a bit since unloading beneath tuning creates out of phase energy pumping out of that vent, lol. Starting well before you've even begun to dip into the</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8459774, member: 607015"] Not so much at home, but I like to force alignments in the vehicle. Once you understand the thermal and mechanical limits of any driver, you can make it do what you want as lone as you respect both thermal and mechanical limits. This assumes the driver is the type of driver that wants to see a vented alignment to begin with, proper Qts, BL... that sort of thing. The rest is down to what you're after in terms of total system requirements, combined with your personal tastes. I'm talking music here, bandwidth AND power. I personally love the region between 15hz and 28hz so, naturally, I tune to around 16-22hz. This controls cone motion into the teens and gives me incredible output because the enclosure is obviously most efficient here. The only concern is thermal handling in this region. I tend to hand over freqencies above 50hz to my front stage so I cross at around 40-50hz. My total effective bandwidth is usually from 12Hz to 50Hz so the majority of driver excursion takes place in the small region above my low tuning point and this is now mainly limited by the enclosure size and my applied low pass freq/Q. The bigger the enclosure, the more likely the driver will unload above tuning if too much power is applied. So higher power, smaller airspace. Overall, for my bandwidth, great cone control and lower distortion while reaching down into the teens. Yes, you will give up some overall output but not as much as people think. This type of tuning is far louder to the ear than the mic and is much more useful for musical listening enjoyment anyhow. People tuning @ 35 are missing out on quite a bit since unloading beneath tuning creates out of phase energy pumping out of that vent, lol. Starting well before you've even begun to dip into the [/QUOTE]
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