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Originally posted by bradley.s View PostBill. You led me astray, dude. You got me thinking there was such a thing as cabin gain in small rooms then Earl Geddes said that just ain't the truth. Why are you spreading misinformation?
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Originally posted by a4eaudio View PostAndy, can you clarify? I thought the typical approach would be something like using REW and a measurement mic. Are you saying that to do THIS right would take forever, or something else?
I currently have the drivers for 4 small subs but will likely need 8. Simulating where to place them and how to vary the gain and time delay for each sub to obtain a flat response around the listening location with a constant decay time is a significant but fairly straightforward optimisation task. If the locations were fixed then one could use measured transfer functions but if you want to efficiently include all reasonable sub locations then simulation is preferable.
Sorting the locations for effective room treatment above 80 Hz is more challenging and some measurement will be needed to check estimates of absorption coefficients for curtains, furniture as well as the room treatment devices. I suspect the room already has enough absorption at higher frequencies and so plastering the walls with room treatment would not be a good move. More diffusion is likely needed because, unlike my previous room, there isn't much to move the sound out of the axial direction and into the transverse direction. Should be an interesting task.
The speaker directivity and interaction with the room is a longer term set of simulations. I suspect the mid/tweeter coaxial drivers I bought before moving house will have too wide a beamwidth but intend to use them initially to confirm and gather information before moving on to a replacement. Planning the next speaker before completing the current speaker...
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Originally posted by andy19191 View PostI currently have the drivers for 4 small subs but will likely need 8.
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Originally posted by andy19191 View PostI currently have the drivers for 4 small subs but will likely need 8.
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Originally posted by bradley.s View PostThis is from the reference section of Toole's book Sound Reproduction, 3rd Edition. Now no more nonsense from the Bro-Audio Dude crowd. If your name isn't listed in the reference material of an audio textbook your opinions contradicting those who are doesn't count.
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Originally posted by billfitzmaurice View PostMaybe, maybe not. The most improvement over a single sub comes with using two, with less significant improvement coming with a third, less still with a fourth. More than four tend to have only a slight effect. If you think you need more than four because they're too small to provide enough output with four that's a different story.
Although I have little interest in low frequency extension it is likely to be reasonable given that below the frequency of the lowest axial mode the subs can transition to all working together as sources since the reason for distributing the sources has gone and long decays times are not going to be a problem listening to exploding planets and other sustained very low frequency booms/noises/notes.
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Originally posted by a4eaudio View PostAndy, thank you for the thoughtful response! Just curious, but what are "small" subs" in your situation? I think of 8 inch subs as small subs, but I know they can be smaller and I know people who want to load up on 18" Ultimax subs would think 12" was small LOL.
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Originally posted by billfitzmaurice View PostIf Earl said that he's wrong. Cabin Gain is well documented. For instance:
https://legacy.data-bass.com/data?page=content&id=2
I stopped reading anything from Earl years ago, when it became apparent to me that his opinions were anything but objective.
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Originally posted by Jeff B. View Post
If you believe this, and believe that for the rest of us here our knowledge and experience doesn't count, then why did you bother to ask the question? My name is referenced in some textbooks, but seriously, does that even matter? It shouldn't matter at all. It's the explanation that should matter.
Yes, peer reviewed research and citations matter. Was your name referenced or was your research cited as consensus? What was the topic? Who was the author of the textbook? All these things matter because it establishes the level of expertise in the subject under discussion. Especially when one offers an opinion that contradicts the consensus.
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Originally posted by bradley.s View PostYes, peer reviewed research and citations matter.
The point being made by several people is that your approach seems misguided...you ask a question and now you are telling everyone what you think the answer should be and arguing with experts. Again, in post #55 you are trying to tell Bill to read something...Bill is trying to help you. He provided a link relevant to your thread. If you aren't sure you believe it, say why and ask a question. Bill did not ask any questions or start the thread, he didn't express any interest in reading a PPT about Geddes and in fact stated that he quit paying attention to him long ago.
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Originally posted by bradley.s View PostNo, Bill. You linked to an article on *vehicle* audio.
Like others I've also come to the conclusion that there's no point in responding to any of your questions, since you don't actually want to learn anything, you just want to argue. Worse, to argue about that which you have no fundamental understanding of. Lesson learned on my part.
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I really don't have any interest in this thread but with regards to room gain. Room gain is based on the concept that below the room fundamental the room acts as a lumped parameter and the room pressure goes like PV^k = constant. The volume is the volume of the room plus the change in volume due to driver area and displacement, V = Vr + Sd * X sin(wt). So P = const/ V^k) and the pressure in the room will have a sine variation. Since for constant SPL driver displacement increases at 1/f^2, room gain increase SPL by 12dB/oct as the frequency decreases below the room resonance. Now since the pressure is assumed equal everywhere in the room it must be the same on all the walls. Thus any leakage is due to the difference in pressure on the bounding surfaces and the pressure outside the room. The room must "breathe". This would cause the room gain to be below 12db/oct, but for no room gain the pressure would have to remain constant and equal to the outside pressure. That is impossible because for air to leak out of the room through whatever leakage there is, there must be a pressure difference.
Now consider room modes. Consider the room fundamental. The room fundamental has pressure antinodes on the bounding surfaces. Thus, the pressure on those surfaces will vary as sin(wt). If those surfaces are so leaky that they can not sustain some degree of room gain, then it follows that they could not sustain the pressure variations associated with the room mode either and the mode could not be supported.
Thus, if modes can be supported it follows that room gain must also be supported. The one factor that influences both is time. At higher frequencies, there is less time for leakage to occur. The conclusion is that while room gain must exist if low frequency modes are supported, the strength of the room gain, as well as the modes, will weaken as the frequency decreases in a leaky room.
Oh, and for the record, some of my work is referenced in one of Doug Self's books.
No back to Ferrari Chat where the only acoustics that matter is the sound of your exhaust when the car is driven through a tunnel at wide open throttle, at red line, near 130db.John k.... Music and Design NaO dsp Dipole Loudspeakers.
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Originally posted by bradley.s View Post
I asked the question because I didn't know. I received answers that contradicted the established science. Now, should I accept an answer that *contradicts* established science on the basis, "Pffft, I have experience"?
Yes, peer reviewed research and citations matter. Was your name referenced or was your research cited as consensus? What was the topic? Who was the author of the textbook? All these things matter because it establishes the level of expertise in the subject under discussion. Especially when one offers an opinion that contradicts the consensus.
It’s funny, in all my years in speaker design I have never once heard that the consensus was that there was no room gain. Never. I have heard Earl say it, but he was the only one. The funnier part is how easy it is to verify. There really should be no debate on this one.
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