Buck
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little alien on campus
Prefabs can be matched to driver parameters, I’ve done that a good bit, not quite as much vehicle acoustics. Vehicle acoustics are largely what they are, as in no matter what the vehicle acoustics are, you generally have to tune to achieve the bandwidth you want out of the woofer, regardless of how the cabin boosts it. Like if someone wants a response of say 25-60 hz or 30-80 hz or whatever, you have to tune to a specific frequency to meet that bandwidth goal, usually, regardless of how much the cabin gain boosts certain parts of the bass’s response curve. There are vehicles that peak super low, naturally, so sometimes you can tune higher and still play super low, due to cabin-gain loading of the box, but usually vehicles I design boxes for resonate higher than the box tuning. There’s so many factors that change what things resonate at, like if it’s 100 degrees outside or 0 degrees, that’s a change in resonance.Yes. It seems Spokey is trying to help you explain but doesn't understand the concepts and it just muddying your waters. He seems to think a prefab is custom-made to match driver parameters and vehicle acoustics.
What methods do you use to verify the potential variances in the T/S parameters from the published specs?
What do you use to adjust your boxes for the interiors of different vehicles?
T/s parameters are relative to themselves. Like say if you get t/s from a barely played woofer vs a woofer with a lot of time on it: the t/s will be different, but they will or should be relative to themselves, as in they both can describe the nature of the woofer, even with the variances between the two. A woofer with zero playing time with t/s pulled might not accurately represent the nature of the woofer.
Companies like Skar sometimes seem to mix broken in t/s with no play time t/s, and that causes problems, but there’s formulas with t/s where you can cross check them with each other, if you have enough of the individual t/s numbers. So you can use some t/s parameters to find the other t/s parameters that seem off and to double check the quality of the t/s. You have to do it a while to know what to look for.
I can often tell if a sub has a progressive vs linear spider pack based on the t/s parameters. That tends to get harder to do, from my experience, with more powerful woofers or woofers with higher Mms’s. Designing for a certain response is much more than simply knowing t/s or knowing cabin resonance on a certain day.
