A speaker physics question.

[westend9]

Can someone explain why I would want to build a rear horn loaded enclosure verses a tuned reflex port? Why not horn load both the front and back of the speaker with mirror horns? I've made a sketch. Just need to build a big wood steamer and make some curved plywood.

You might want to use the backwave of the driver to put out more low frequency sound.

I hope no other threads/posts got messed up or deleted when the forum changed--I really consider the info/history here to be invaluable and some of it is irreplaceable. Anyone else notice any discrepancies/deletions?

Yep, I had a thread bookmarked and it is no longer linked to the same URL.