I built my WO last easter, and it sits happily in my room sounding great. Now, ive just moved into a house with some mates, and the WO is of course following me. I know i can already blow them away with its pressence and sound, but i was wondering, is there anything i can do short of changing the amp or drivers, to give the WO just that little bit more depth, snap, punch and solid LF clarity?

[quote author=Learner_UK  link=1127246359/0#0 date=1127242759]I built my WO last easter, and it sits happily in my room sounding great. Now, ive just moved into a house with some mates, and the WO is of course following me. I know i can already blow them away with its pressence and sound, but i was wondering, is there anything i can do short of changing the amp or drivers, to give the WO just that little bit more depth, snap, punch and solid LF clarity? [/quote]


1.point the mouth of the box towards a corner try different distances 10 inch 15 30 etc, so the output from the wo fires into the corner and reflects into the room.
2. try pointing the mouth towards the floor and sit the box on short legs (4 inches or so maybe a couple of bricks?)

both these ideas have worked well for me and cost nothing.

Do like I do and build an army of bass !!! Have you concidered a second WO ??? A third etc... One thing I have learned from years of live sound and large events is to increase that horn mouth size.    The WO is great for stacking ! If you really must impress your roomates then you must first build enough speakers so they dont have any more space to get around and just moove out...

Wouldn't that mean going form a hyperbolic flare to a conical one?  

Shouldn’t the flair continue to increase, at the same rate (whatever that is)?
Robert  :)

If ya plot corner (trihedral) loading out, it is elliptical (inverted hyperbolic).  

I'm building a large sub (8' x 8' x 2') with a 20' length inside.  
Flare rate is 15 Hz.  
With the 8' x 2' mouth firing into an open corner 4' away,
a graph of the flair (expansion rate) of the horn
superimposed on the flair of the corner
shows them to intersect right at that point.  

That’s why I was throwing the “change in expansion rate” question in.  
I’m wondering how changing expansion rate effects things and what one can “get away” with?  
Robert  :)

I havent made the said flare adjustemnts yet, but i have turned my amp up to full, and put an 18db gain into the WO using my active crossover. OMG!!! the whole house shook, you could feel it out side on the street!!!!!