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ojm214

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Calling a bandpass box a 4th, 6th or 8th order box has to do with the relationship between the acoustical cutoff slopes of the particular alignments and those of passive electronic filters and crossovers. In a 1st order crossover, the cutoff slope is 6dB per octave. In a 4th order crossover, the cutoff slope is 24dB per octave. So, a 4th order bandpass is a box in which the frequency response falls off at 24dB per octave, as a result of how the alignment affects the frequency response of the driver(s) in it.

In the end, not all sealed/ported bandpass boxes behave as 4th order filters and not all ported/ported bandpass boxes behave as 6th or 8th order filters (although they are close) but, that's what they've come to be called so that's what we call them. ;-)

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