[M-Dub]

So I built these sealed door pods but they were too small.
Then I experimented with aperiodic vents so the speaker can breath easier.
Worked ok.

Problem then was, the rear wave was not acoustically separated from the front wave.

I got an idea to make a "port" out of 1" PVC elbows that puts the output of the port into the stock door speaker hole and down.

This seems to let the speaker breath AND the rear wave is acoustically separated from the front wave.

Win win right? But what do you call it? Is it a ported enclosure?

 

[sqshoestring]

I can't even answer that. I guess it depends on what the port is tuned to; it may be doing something and it might not. Otherwise I'd say it is aperiodic because with a port you use the port output for sound you listen to.

 

[M-Dub]

I can't even answer that. I guess it depends on what the port is tuned to; it may be doing something and it might not. Otherwise I'd say it is aperiodic because with a port you use the port output for sound you listen to.

I figure I have ~ 11 inches worth of 1” pvc elbows twisted up as the port.

You bring up some of the same things I’m wondering. I don’t know what the tuning frequency would happen to be. Try to put that aside for a moment.
let’s just say hypothetically that the end of the port was outside the firewall or buried under 17 layers of Luxury Liner Pro or something crazy.
Would that still be considered ported? If you couldn’t even hear the rear wave?

Also, how would that affect the front waves?