In Reply to: RE: Bass reflex vs acoustic suspension vs inf. baffle posted by hahax@verizon.net on September 11, 2016 at 05:48:52:
Will you two please go get a room.
A closed box is not an infinite baffle. It's a mass-spring system.
And you cannot have a driver which is optimized for both bass reflex and closed box. The fact that one sounded tighter than the other can be attributed to several factors.
Of all the back-and-forth between you two, neither of you has shown even one single MLSSA graph, or gone any further than arguing about Merlot versus Cabernet.
I *get* that closed box doesn't do the "capacitor" thingy that bass reflex does, but the question is: In a well-designed system, can we hear it? If you cross a woofer at, for example, 100 Hz at 24 dB/octave, the "punch" and definition isn't even coming from the woofer. It's coming from the lower midrange driver.
Many years ago, I had the opportunity to learn from loudspeaker designer John Meyer (meyersound.com). He taught me a LOT about loudspeakers. Then, I read Olson's "Music, Physics and Engineering" and Dickason's "Loudspeaker Design Cookbook".
Other than from a purely theoretical perspective, a closed box is not necessarily better than a bass reflex box.
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