band-pass system

band-pass system

[′band‚pas ‚sis·təm]

(engineering acoustics)

A loudspeaker system, often used for subwoofers, in which the speaker is mounted inside an enclosure on a shelf that divides the enclosure into two parts, and one or both parts are coupled to the outside by a vent; the frequency response of the system is that of a fourth-order band-pass filter (one vent) or an asymmetrical sixth-order band-pass filter (two vents).