| The Wide and Mighty
Baffled but not Befuddled THOR
Egged on by my meta-friends on DIYAUDIO I ordered the Thor
components from Madisound in Wisconsin. Then it got too cold
to cut MDF over the winter so I spent the time figuring out how to
work with Martin King's MATHCAD speaker design program, and
plunged into work. Scott suggested a cabinet 40 inches tall,
7.5 deep and 18.5 wide. with a 3 inch diameter, 5 inch long
port. About 5,500 cubic inches. A mass loaded quarter
wave design.
I decided to play with the prism a bit
choosing a beveled design which was 17.25 inches across the back,
sidewalls 7.5" and a rhombus based upon a pair of 30-60-90
triangles. The front baffle would be 9 inches across --
about the same as the D'Appolito design. The cubes were
slightly greater had I been able to figure out how to bevel the
top of the cabinet, but close enough for government work.
This is a conceptual drawing from Solidworks.
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