Here we go. It works! The flue is wide open, so it's technically an IB. Fun stuff.
Here we go. It works! The flue is wide open, so it's technically an IB. Fun stuff.
The chimney may work as a transmission line. Good use of an unused fireplace, in any event.
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What does it sound like outside?
Barry.
If we knew what the hell we were doing, we wouldn't call it research would we.
I had an old audio book that showed how to mount drivers in closet doors for IB effects.
and a driver outside the house coming to a horn that filled the interior wall. Pics in some old thread.
The 50's was a great time for audio experimentation.
Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles
All you need now is recording of Santa coming down the chimeny :-)
What is commonly called a transmission line is actually a 1/4 wave tuned port (like an organ pipe) with sound damping materials along the tube to absorb upper frequencies. A true transmission line slowly absorbs the back wave with denser and denser materials until the wave can be transmitted into a solid material. The end of this tube, the top of the chimney, is open. The chimney has to be resonating at a frequency with a wavelength 4x its length since it's a open/closed tube, but it isn't ported back into the room, so this is functioning like as an IB, not a TL.Inaudible, I checked. It sounds absolutely glorious inside, and I still don't have the EQ/rolloff/subsonic filter where I want it yet, miniDSP is probably in my future, but a good parametric eq combined with an EC will work too and keep things analog and simpler. The group delay and phase plot for an IB are amazingly good, you are hearing the signal, not the box. You really need more moving area to do an IB properly (four 2245's would be about right), but this works great at moderate levels, the cleanest bass I've ever heard (my first IB) and I've been building subs since the 70's. I've got a bridged BGW 620B driving it, around 500 watts, but I don't want to push it to beyond the Xmax limit. I can't imagine going back to box subs. This really is special.Construction was extremely easy. Materials are a 31" x 49" sheet of 3/4 MDF, a roll of roofer's sealant, some fiberglass for behind the driver, screws and T nuts, and eight masonry bolts, about $60 total. The seal is tight but I don't think it's super critical because there is no pressure buildup. I did remove the damper mechanism to make the path more open and to prevent potential rattles.
Is it possible for the driver to get wet during a storm? Not sure how your chimney is built, but it would be bad if a 2245 got wet.. or critters in the chimney?
Dan
No it isn't. It's a closed end/open end pipe with a fundamental resonance of 8 Hz (the chimney is 35 feet long). What are marketed as transmission lines in the audio world act as transmission lines for the upper frequencies only. They morph into 1/4 wave resonators at the tuned frequency. Real transmission lines absorb waves without reflection by slowly increasing the density of the transmission media, like a wedge in an anechoic chamber, which goes from zero density at the tip to the solid wall of the structure at the fat end of the wedge.
No it isn't. It's a closed end/open end pipe with a fundamental resonance of 8 Hz, outside the audio range and way below the subsonic filter anyway (the chimney is 35 feet long). What are marketed as transmission lines in the audio world act as transmission lines for the upper frequencies only. They morph into 1/4 wave resonators at the tuned frequency. They dump that out of phase resonance back into the room. Mine puts the (non-existent) fundamental resonance outside where you wouldn't hear it even if it did exist. The third harmonic is around 24 Hz, so that MIGHT be significant, but it doesn't seem to be as the level of the third is much lower than the first, and it's behind the closed baffle anyway.
Real transmission lines absorb waves without reflection by slowly increasing the density of the transmission media, like a wedge in an anechoic chamber, which gradually goes from air density at the tip to the density of the solid wall of the structure at the opposite end of the wedge.
8Hz fundamental, but then there are harmonics of the pipe resonance.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...es/opecol.html
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I have four 2245H's in four 10 cubic foot boxes stacked in a closet next to my room. In the room, you can only see the front of the boxes. I desperately wanted to do them as IB's, using the closet as the cabinet, but alas, it didn't have enough volume according to an IB website calculator I used at the time (pretty sure it was the Cult of IB).
If anyone has an IB sub in the Washington metro area, I'd love to hear it and learn if I can actually get rid of those boxes.
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