Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
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Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
All this being confined to quarters gets me/you thinking and as I am bit by bit upgrading my circa 1991 Cubix I wondered if anyone can recall if Richard every tried porting the speakers?
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
I'm not aware of him doing so, and I'd be more than a little surprised.
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
Ha love the ketchup reference To my way of thinking nothing is sacrosanct, I have always been curious and if you don't challenge convention then there's a danger everything becomes a tad beige Now having said all of that I am not going to put a big hole in the rear of my Cubix's to satisfy my curiosity without undertaking some research hence my post.
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
In my listening experience, ports compromise rhythm section timing and bass notes lack differentiation and integration with the rest of the music. I liked a 'spirited' set of ported Neat standmounts that ToonTrev bought to one of my bake-offs, and I like the 3 Square Audio miniature standmounts that I heard with NVA amps, earlier in the year, but they are both playing tricks with the bass (albeit the 3SQ implementation is far superior and rarely bothered me).
In a relatively small sealed enclosure, I think you must accept more limited low frequency extension (although what you do get is better defined and timed) and / or lower efficiency.
I imagine there are very good technical reasons why you wouldn't want a port in Cubes, but I can only tell you what my ears tell me.
In a relatively small sealed enclosure, I think you must accept more limited low frequency extension (although what you do get is better defined and timed) and / or lower efficiency.
I imagine there are very good technical reasons why you wouldn't want a port in Cubes, but I can only tell you what my ears tell me.
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
RD had an instinct for the mechanical energy of drivers and cabinets. I cannot imagine him ever considering altering the dynamic of the Cube speaker by putting a port in it.
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
Ok and thanks for the replies. Given I don't like ketchup this question might well be filed away under the heading - thanks but no thanks
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Re: Has anyone ever ported a pair of Cubes or Cubix?
Does this count
I made cubettes clone initially before scaling up which left me with empty cabinets- I filled the front with a small full range and modified the top for a 1” up firing port- pleasant enough but the full range were poor quality- the port added / expanded the bass response- it’s doable and interesting
I made cubettes clone initially before scaling up which left me with empty cabinets- I filled the front with a small full range and modified the top for a 1” up firing port- pleasant enough but the full range were poor quality- the port added / expanded the bass response- it’s doable and interesting
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