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Just what the title says- I have been reading about TL's and what I understand is that to design them, it's simply the speed of sound/4 x (the length of desired resonant frequency)??? I am curious about these as well as horn boxes. If designed properly, do they sound as good/as loud as ported boxes in either/or home and car environments?
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They are simple in theory, and in design, but to get the full desirable results from them, fine tuning is at hand.
The 1/4 wave design isn't the only way to build them, you can also use 1/2 or 3/4 wave. The 1/4 designs usually need stuffing to perform properly, while the longer designs usually don't.
But overall they are easy to design and build. As far as efficiency, they are not much better than an optimum ported box at best.
The main advantage to them is to reduce resonances inside the box to have near perfect sound.
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Ah, I see. Yeah, I know the stuffing is used to reduce resonances which occur at I believe every 4th multiple of the tuning frequency (i.e. 50Hz tuning with resonances at 200Hz, 800Hz, etc) am I right?
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but does a conventional style TL enclosure have any feasable applications for say a street or nw install??
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Yeah I don't think they hit at all in cars...by design theory they would be a flop pretty much...to tell the truth I have never seen a TL street car.
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