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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    To expand on modskwod's answer, and also give you a better insight into FoxPro5's post: They are referring to designing a speaker enclosure using one of the popular speaker box design programs. WinISD Pro is a free one that lots of people using; mostly for Subwoofer box design. These programs...
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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    Great Find, PerfecxionX ! I'll be studying wachuku's post on that Fosgate forum in great detail. Just the sort of info I've been fishing for. Thanks! You Too, WrenchGuy! Care to share some more details on your build? I'd love it! I've no plan to go to these extremes; I've got bigger fish to...
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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    T3mpest, I'd be very interested to know what your vehicle is where you've had good luck with speakers in the Kicks. All the cars I've worked with have been either sports cars, or med to small sized sport sedans. All have had low slung driver positions, and narrow deep footwells divided by the...
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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    Yes, it is a little Port - a Port Tube, actually . 1-1/4" diameter around 7" long. It has 90 degree elbow just past the inside, so most of the run is parallel (and below) the speaker face inside the enclosure. Sure, JimJ is right about running up against Hoffman's Iron Law (You can have low...
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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    Speakers in the Kick Panels are simply too far 'off axis' from your ears, and they are firing right into an acoustically 'dead' divided footwell and directly into your legs & shoes. Too much speaker sound simply gets absorbed, and never reaches your ears. Highs? Forget it with kicks. I've...
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    BASS: Small Enclosure better than Door Sealing & Dampening?

    To get a good front soundstage, most of us are stuck with putting relatively small 6-1/2" (or smaller) drivers in the front doors. Speakers in Kick Panels just don't cut it in my experience. I'm going for 6.5" Component sets (with crossovers and separate tweeters) for the build I'm working on...
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