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2.5 (or 3.5) way designs address the issue . . .

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In Reply to: RE: Get two pairs of those "things" yahoos hang from the towing hitch of their pickup trucks & attach to your posted by Jim in Blacksburg on May 10, 2008 at 15:10:45

. . . by rolling in a second woofer at the lower frequencies, to compensate for the baffle step. A simple series inductor on the ".5" driver, whose -3dB point is matched to the +3dB point of the rising on-axis response, fills out the low end quite nicely.

The wider the baffle, of course, the lower in frequency the BDS occurs, necessitating a bigger inductor on the second woofer.

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Somewhat. ... Baffle step diffraction can range from 0 to 6dB. - Richard BassNut Greene 07:45:57 05/16/08 (0)

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