I am the owner of Rockford Fosgate T3S2-19 drivers that were reviewed very well here. Currently they are just being used in 100L enclosures. This is a nice setup, but I feel like I am not making good use of the drivers given how powerful they are. They aren't very efficient when used this way.
Josh mentioned that they should work well for horn loading when he reviewed them, but I am still trying to figure out exactly how. The only horn that uses them to my knowledge is the Maul, which is a simple slot design.
I tried modeling them in various ported and horn enclosures, and it seems like every ported enclosure gives a peaky response, and the usual suspects for horns like the Devastator, Skram, Othorn, etc. don't work very well with the drivers. Peaky peaky peaky. However, when I model them in the Gjallarhorn, it looks like they are actually a pretty good match. Unfortunately the drivers won't fit in the Gjallarhorn.
So I messed with the Gjallarhorn parameters a bit in Hornresp to get an idea of how a tapped horn could be designed to work with the T3S2-19. By playing with a few things I got an even better response than the Gjallarhorn for this driver.
The one problem is that in order to get this response the compression ratio has to be very high. Whenever I try to use a lower compression ratio and a larger opening everything goes to hell and I get a peaky response. Additionally, the drivers stick out 3" from where they are mounted. In order to get that level of compression they would have to be mounted with the screws going up through the frame or some kind of phase plug would have to be used. Also, I think such a high compression ratio can cause damage to the driver, no?
Any advice designing a horn for these pesky drivers would be much appreciated. I would like it to be a tapped horn or bandpass horn with extension down to around 20Hz that don't have a really peaky and annoying response.
Here is what I came up with in Hornresp.