Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Wrong. There are plenty of substitutes. Infinte Baffle aka Acoustic Suspension enclosures require HUGE amounts of power, relitively speaking.
A properly ported (tuned) bass reflex gives a smoother response with less power. A labyrinth enclosure develops even lower frequencies.
Check out ANY pro- sound or studio monitor enclosure. Most of them are Bass Reflex.
There is a studio in France where the designers built a Labyrinth UNDER THE FLOOR. They drive 2: 36 in diameter subs with a 10KW Class A amp EACH.
HAH! Now that brings new meaning to the term "Boom Box"
With the proliferation of Hip Hop / Rap stlye of music, manufacturers have even shifted the Bass Frquency contour (or 'Q") from 100 - 120 hz down to 30 - 50 hz. That is a more whole octave down. This is why speech sounds funny when listened on the radio. Our voices do not reproduce anything near that lower range, thus requireing a drastic re-eqing of a system that will be having Voice and music played through it.
To answer the question, get a 10 or 12 in subwoofer and place it in a corner of two adjacent walls to allow the room to act as the enclosure. This is what Klipsch did with the KilpschHorn.
< old fart sound guy for MANY MANY sound companies and Bands since 1973.