I have a pair of W8 2145 lying around and wonder what to do with them.
Open baffle is out of the question and I already have a pair of BIBs doing their job wonderfully as "allround speakers" with W8 1772's in them.
Thanks to @Scottmoose I also already have a pair of desktop TL speakers. So all my audio-needs are taken care of.
Just for the fun of it, I thought about maybe building "very small" desktop bass-reflex speakers so I could have the 8" speakers blasting into my face more or less directly.
What else could bedone?
Open baffle is out of the question and I already have a pair of BIBs doing their job wonderfully as "allround speakers" with W8 1772's in them.
Thanks to @Scottmoose I also already have a pair of desktop TL speakers. So all my audio-needs are taken care of.
Just for the fun of it, I thought about maybe building "very small" desktop bass-reflex speakers so I could have the 8" speakers blasting into my face more or less directly.
What else could bedone?
Tangbands suggested Eighty-one liters of enclosure can be tweaked a little to extend the bottom end a bit. I got a -3.01 Db @ 31.25 hertz for a 125 liter size...tuned to 34.8 hertz...100 mm by 200 mm Port, 279 mm long.
Yes, that rising response really should be addressed, of course a 31 band EQ could null this out & fine tune evrything, but I figure a more permanent integral approach should be tried.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
Yes, that rising response really should be addressed, of course a 31 band EQ could null this out & fine tune evrything, but I figure a more permanent integral approach should be tried.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rick...
A lot better.Interesting, the TL methodology seems almost exclusively focused on bass response. How much better is a TL enclosure than a well designed bass reflex one?
I have sold my W8 2145 since I didn't know what to do and I already have a pretty good setup with W8 1772s in BIB-speakers.
However: definde "better"? To me, given roughly the same volume of the enclosure, TL-speakers sound more warm, full and resonant. The bass might not be as punchy as it migth be with a BR, however it's much more precise and thus, also punchy in its own way.
I compared some TLs and BRs and in comparison, the BR's bass sounded a little "mushy" and not as well defined as the bass from a TL.
But that's just me. Different taste and all
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