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Doug
B's Seas Three Way Towers
These
were really impressive at Arizona DIY 2005. Comments and construction
pictures here are from the designer.
Woofers:
SEAS L22RN4X-P
Mids: SEAS W14CY-001
Tweeters: SEAS 27TDC
Box
Design Features:
Front Baffle Design Features:
- Drivers
are time-aligned in the baffle. Woofers are mounted on 3/4" MDF
plates and tweeters are mounted on the rear of the baffle
- The baffle
has a varying-pitch roundoff around the mids/tweets to minimize edge
diffraction.
- The baffle
uses six separate layers,
including a piece of foam-backed linoleum, which acts as a constraint
layer.
- Each
layer of the mid/woofer opening is routed at a 45 degree angle, with
each layer getting progressively larger front-to-back. (This is to minimize
compression of the back wave.)
- Baffle
thickness at the woofer is 2-1/4".
- Baffle
thickness at the mid/tweeter is 1-1/2".
Crossover:
- Woofer-to-mid
is second order at 400 Hz. The woofers are wired in parallel and the
mids are wired in series, which provides BSC.
- Mid-to-tweeter
is fourth order at 2500 Hz. There's a series LC shunt on the mids for
the first cone break-up peak at 8500 Hz.
- There's
a series RC contour filter across the tweeter to smooth the upper octave
rise caused by the tweeter mounting method.
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