Thursday, July 2, 2009

Bracing Notes

Bracing is an acoustic treatment of the box. It allows the box to stop the flexing waves forms that are reproduced inside it. The port is the 'interface' between the box and the outside. It counterbalances the moving of the voice coil by pushing out when the coil is moving in (through magnetism) and vice versa.

- Clamped second layer


- Clamped second layer


- Replacement top

The part that had to be bent over the top was too dry and snapped and so it had to be replaced with two small pieces.

- Second speaker, first layer

The second speaker with the first layer complete, not as nicely as the first speaker.

- First speaker, first layer


- First speaker, half first layer