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RE: Are these really myths...

The problem I have with the basic premise of the article is that it is ridiculous to expect a short fat speaker and a tall thin one with the same driver, volume and port will tune anywhere near the same. Once the geometry deviates wildly from a cube, there are going to be standing waves to contend with. Once the dimensions that are normal for a floor-stander are reached, quarter-wave modes will dominate. Even though the designer may have intended the speaker to be a BR, the geometry is a mass-loaded transmission line. Now such things as driver and port placement become very important is damping higher order standing waves.

Now, if the floor-stander has separate chambers for woofer, mid, etc, them the above does not (necessarily) apply, but that is not what the author implies.

Bob

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