In Reply to: Does it effectively lower the cutoff frequency? posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on April 25, 2017 at 08:20:17:
I agree with that statement.Placing any horn in a flat baffle at its mouth controls its polars by a small margin and also provides a bit better loading to the driver to a lower frequency.
A "baffle step" is actually the effect of a flat baffle acting like an 90 degree exit angle horn.
Chris
"As far as the ear can tell, consistently clean and spacious bass can be reproduced only by a driver unit coupled to a horn-type acoustic transformer..."; Jack Dinsdale, May 1974
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