From: digilyd@hotmail.com   
      
   Dick Pierce wrote:   
      
   > And to talks about something that's shorter than a wavelength   
   > as a transmission line itself is bordering on absurd. Consider   
   > the fact that at those frequencies, you're actually looking at   
   > the system as a Helmholtz resonator with a whopping large   
   > acoustic inertance, a tinu effective acoustic cimpliance, and   
   > a pretty high absorbtion loss, and then calculate what happens   
   > to the effective pahse shift as you move through that overdamped   
   > resonance.   
      
   So what you say is that a "transmission line speaker" is a bass reflex box   
   with a very small box volume and a very large port volume?   
      
     Kind regards   
      
     Peter Larsen   
      
   > Bud Fried (of, among other things, IMF fame) did more to set back   
   > the amateur's grasp of physical acoustics then damned near anyone   
   > else: he, regretfuylly, was a very persuasive, charming personality   
   > who was otherwise clueless about acoustics.   
      
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