What Company make those Side-Ported Speaker Cabs?

[tictac]

There was a post somewhere here with a picture of a speaker cab that had ports on the side. Does anyone have any info on these cabinets?

TT

[Structo]

http://fortemusical.com/

[greiswig]

I've got the vertical 2x12 from Forte. Great cabinet. I've had a Port City and still have a Bob Burt V-12, but that Forte is a force to be reckoned with. Fantastic workmanship, too.

[stelligan]

Another option
http://www.rndcabinets.com/

[Aurora]

FWIW - If it is a properly designed cab, according to relevant design criteria, it doesn't matter if the port is front, side or rear......
It's the port loading that does the trick....

[ericlee]

Even more radical design with built in microphones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKb8_aRh ... r_embedded

More info here:
http://www.guitarampcab.com/thunder.html

[greiswig]

FWIW - If it is a properly designed cab, according to relevant design criteria, it doesn't matter if the port is front, side or rear......
It's the port loading that does the trick....

In theory, I think you're right. In practice, I'm not sure it works that way...or else the theory cited does not take into account all variables. The Forte cabinet has reflectors near the ports on the sides that should make the ports act somewhat differently to the port on, say, a Thiele cabinet which is limited pretty much to low frequencies only. I believe this makes the dispersion characteristics in the midrange more continuous than those of my rear-ported Bob Burt cabinet, even though the Burt cabinet cants the two speakers away from one another some. It also makes the Forte less finicky about how far the cabinet is from a wall behind it, where the Burt cabinet likes a little distance from a back wall, but not too much.

HTH,