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RE: Drivers for existing cabinet

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In Reply to: RE: Drivers for existing cabinet posted by Bill the K on May 01, 2024 at 09:27:07

Putting new drivers in an old cabinet is almost as bad as throwing a dart blindfolded when all you know is the direction to throw. Bass response, both quality and roll off point is totally linked to cabinet type(reflex or closed box), cabinet volume, driver Vas and driver Vts. All of these need to be coordinated to get the kind of bass you are looking for and without proper design you can be so far off you'll never listen to those speakers again. Normally you choose your drivers first and then design the box to enclose them.

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RE: Drivers for existing cabinet - oranda 14:16:14 06/01/24 (1)
I agree in that you shouldn't choose replacement drivers at random. However, for a recycled, ported cabinet, if you get a Q somewhere in the 0.5 and 0.7 range, I don't think it's going to be all that terrible. Ports can often be altered and there are enough compromises made along the way in designing a cabinet that there is some degree of leeway in cabinet-driver matching. Certainly a cabinet can be made too small, but you can always add something to occupy the internal volume if it's too large.

If what you were saying was universally true, there would be one ideal cabinet for each driver which we know is not the case. As long as you are careful in your driver selection and can make some alterations, seems like it can be made to work.

Happy to hear other opinions on this matter.
- RE: Drivers for existing cabinet - Bill Fitzmaurice 11:11:19 06/02/24 (0)
  Of course you shouldn't stick any driver in any cabinet, but it's not at all difficult to use speaker modeling software to see how any given driver would work in any given enclosure.

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