Recent content by SlugButter

Uggh. Nothing worse than going to an audio show with an obnoxious stunt wall blaring terrible sounding music at 152 DB.

I’d like to try Daytons kraken 21 inch. I wish they weren’t only available in single 4 ohm coils. The 18 inch ultimax was a great sounding sub.

A bandpass crossover is not the same thing as a bandpass enclosure. A bandpass crossover is just a combination of a low pass and high pass crossover. I use a bandpass crossover on my midbass speakers from 80-300 HZ and another bandpass crossover on my midrange speakers from 300-6000 HZ.

Both of those boxes will lose air space once the subs go in. Probably lose .25 cubes and raise port tuning by 1-2 HZ. The GP box is going to be far superior over a prefab.

Round flared aeroports would give you some extra air space. I did a 4 cube enclosure for a 15 not long ago and the aeroport saved around .5 cubes over the slot port with the same air space. You’d almost need to go custom to squeeze everything you can out of your space.

Advertising net volume always bothered me. When you put subs in a box advertised at 2 cubes and lose .25 cubes of air space you not only lose the air space, it also raises port tuning. What you thought was 2 cubes @ 32 HZ is now 1.75 @ 35 HZ.

I was at a show last year where a guy hit 141 DB with 3 12 inch JL TW5s in a sealed box. That’s pretty impressive for sealed box shallow mounts.

That seems a little short, but it depends on your music tastes and the amp power you’re running, to a degree. What are your music tastes? Are you going to run test tones and meter your system on a ton of amp power?

They want big sealed boxes. At .5 your F3 is at about 63 HZ. Your cabin gain will help some, but if you put them in 1 cube your F3 will lower down in the 50s somewhere. You can even go as high as 2 cubes sealed with them. If someone had a couple lying around it might be fine to play with them in...

I run my 13 dollar Pyle midbass speakers from 80-250 HZ. No one would ever know I have 13$ speakers unless I told them. That’s the funny part. They sound quite good. Lol

I don’t like the staging of where the speakers fire personally being behind the head, but wherever you can fit a speaker is kinda what you’re stuck with. It would not sound horrible if you had a 4x6 behind a above your head, but it isn’t ideal by sound quality standards. I have horrible 5.25...

The rockvilles will also work as a subwoofer but there is a dip down at around 50 HZ and a little peak at your port tuning, so it has a dip in response. The higher you tune the port, the better they sound but a sacrifice to the low end. Heavy metal, country rock and old school rap listeners...

That excursion is good for bass but it also comes at a price if your using it as a midbass that plays up to 4000 HZ in a 2 way system. It doesn’t have very good SQ above 300 HZ. As a midbass in a 3 way setup where the 6x9 will only be used from approx. 65 HZ - 300 or 400 HZ it will do pretty good.

I’m working on this box at the moment for 2 8s. 2 cubes tuned to 32 HZ after all displacements. The port is 3x10x35 inches long. If you’re using a round aeroport, you’ll need to go with 4 inches probably. If you have no flares on the ends you will certainly get port noise. Both of these boxes...