Polk Audio port technology questions.

ChrisD06
ChrisD06 Posts: 929
in DIY, Mods & Tweaks
Short and sweet.

I'm working on a little project. I'm curious if anyone knows how one could design their own ARC (Acoustic Resonance Control) port and tune it to a cabinet, and also how I could design my own Power Port to tune to a cabinet.

Looking at making some RTxxxp matching surround speakers...
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    The arc port was tuned to the resonance of the cabinet. I honestly wouldn't bother trying to replicate this... Polk ultimately has dropped the tech on the newer stuff
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    edited March 12
    The math for Helmholtz resonators is well established. Nothing magical about ports. It is classical (i.e., non-quantum) physics.
    The shape makes the arithmetic a little more complicated (and, at least in theory, minimizes port noise), but... calculators, computers, and the good ol' spreadsheet take most of the tedium out of doin' the arithmetic.

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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    edited March 12
    From what I've found, Polk's PowerPorts are relatively the same port volume as a standard tube/port, but with that volume residing outside the cabinet within the platform area itself and a very short tube inserted to enclosure.

    There was an excel spreadsheet on the net with the PPort calculations also requiring known driver TS parameters etc. I posted the basic platform/port dimensions ratio diagram here somewhere....

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,732
    The arc, acoustic resonance control port is not the power port
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  • ChrisD06
    ChrisD06 Posts: 929
    VR3 wrote: »
    The arc port was tuned to the resonance of the cabinet. I honestly wouldn't bother trying to replicate this... Polk ultimately has dropped the tech on the newer stuff

    Thanks, Trey. I will probably end up not replicating it, but I have always been curious how it worked and what it was even supposed to do.
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  • ChrisD06
    ChrisD06 Posts: 929
    edited March 12
    xschop wrote: »
    From what I've found, Polk's PowerPorts are relatively the same port volume as a standard tube/port, but with that volume residing outside the cabinet within the platform area itself and a very short tube inserted to enclosure.

    There was an excel spreadsheet on the net with the PPort calculations also requiring known driver TS parameters etc. I posted the basic platform/port dimensions ratio diagram here somewhere....

    Edit....

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    Oh shoot! If you happen to run across that spreadsheet please send it my way. Otherwise I'll have to do some trial and error using the diagram.
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