Where's My Mule..?

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I mentioned yesterday that I wanted to upcycle my dad's old Wharfedale speaker drive units and crossovers in a new build. I think I might just use them as a test bench to try out some old cabinet ideas of mine, and maybe resurrect some very old technical ideas from the fifties and before. So, I intend to build a standard mule speaker baffle that will allow me to house the active bits in one piece, so I can swap out various configurations of box behind it. I'm going to go for a laminate of the cheapest particle board - for economy and because it's dense and reasonably homogenous - and thinner ply, for its machinability and finish. Facing the dense core with good ply will also make it more durable in the swapping between boxes for testing scenario.

I've got a few ideas of my own to try: some going back to fag-packet scribbles thirty or forty years ago that were never tried; and some very much older ideas that never gained mainstream traction for long, but which I've always thought were good ideas that just needed taking further. All involve bracing and porting techniques: for this series of experiments, I'm sticking to twenty litre boxes, as that is the designed infinite baffle load for the Wharfedale bass-mid driver of the Linton design and cheap and simple to construct/modify. Where I go from there is anyone's guess, as this - as usual - is jazz. This time the image is of a pair of Linton 2's. Keep you posted...

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