Talk:Passive radiator (speaker)
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Passive radiators and hazardous atmospheres edit
I am looking for options for good quality sound in environments with potentially explosive dust atmospheres, such as in dairy farm barns and factories.
It appears that the passive radiator can help to prevent problems with loose wiring sparking, which could potentially lead to a dangerous explosion. The passive radiator creates a fully independent and isolated atmosphere inside the speaker enclosure that is kept separate from the outside, so that explosive dust cannot enter the enclosure. This is not possible with bass reflex porting.
Passive radiators can still allow for good bass response similar to ported speakers, vs the typical output of fully sealed enclosures which also provide fully isolated internal airspaces around the speaker wiring, but typically have a much more limited bass response for very small enclosures.
This sentence is too ambiguous edit
"Passive radiators do not behave exactly as their equivalent bass-reflex designs in that they"
It is not clear whether "they" refers to "passive radiators" or "their equivalent bass-reflex designs". Grammar would suggest it's referring to "passive radiators" but it's not clear enough. (I do not know enough about this topic to correct it - but I would like to know!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.61.242 (talk) 14:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)