box design for 12" mach 5 ixl

[kyleorsini 10+ year member]

and nevermind the bad router job on the edges hahaha.

 

[DNick454 10+ year member]

Well there's your problem... with that amp mounted upside down, you're losing atleast 15 deebeez. Box looks good though. What are your plans? Raw wood, carpet, paint?

Hopefully that top piece isnt glued and cured yet, would be kinda hard to paint the port, or at a 45 degree piece at the sharp turn in the port if you wanted to.

 

[kyleorsini 10+ year member]

well if i didnt change my mind every week on shit id actually finish a box with carpet and paint but its staying wood.

 

[Puggsley456 10+ year member]

And it will take approx. 10-12hrs of playing time to break that bad boy in....You'll see. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

It'll even get better.

I'm putting 2 of then in this in the near future. Its going to have removable/changeable ports

 

[kyleorsini 10+ year member]

im actually very dissapointed in my sub right now puggsley, its to a point where i wish i hadnt boughten it and sold my R

 

[DNick454 10+ year member]

Go get something from the RE lineup. RE SX 12" would be nice, same 1000W rms rating and the SX was designed for ported enclosures only. Ontop of that, RE subs just look plain sexy in flat black with that white RE logo //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

RE recomends 1.5-2 cubic feet for a 12" SX, so that would drop right into your box like a charm

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

im actually very dissapointed in my sub right now puggsley, its to a point where i wish i hadnt boughten it and sold my R

Your sub doesn't like you because you have bad grammar.

 

[Puggsley456 10+ year member]

im actually very dissapointed in my sub right now puggsley, its to a point where i wish i hadnt boughten it and sold my R

Elaborate please.

 

[kyleorsini 10+ year member]

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send me a sx my way and ill put er in my box //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[DNick454 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gifsend me a sx my way and ill put er in my box //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Lol, if I had the cash laying around for an RE SX, it'd be in my car right now instead of these two 10" kicker comps. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[kyleorsini 10+ year member]

true true but hey ur doing dam well with those little kickers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[DNick454 10+ year member]

Hehe, I need to find someone around here with TL so I can meter it. It would be nothing impressive, but I'm sure it'd be pretty funny to see what these things can do. I was really surprised at how loud they got for being such a cheap sub with little RMS power. Not much cone area workin there either.

 

[406er 10+ year member]

Check the sticky on top marked Box Plans.
Find one that's like 2 to 2.5cu and maybe 35 to 38hz.

They're free, can't go wrong

LOL, wouldnt ya know that the shop who sold em the sub, has a 2.25 net at 38Hz box ready to go, in fact the box was in his trunk for him to "test drive" the sub befor he bought.

kyle i can tell ya the box it tuned way to low, and is to small. also how did the type R sound after we set up your amp, how did it compair to the IXL in our box?? what was the tuning of the type R box you built. we need to make sure your compairing apples to apples here. the IXL is a great sub and in the "right" box can walk all over a type R. the other thing kyle, what are you expecting with the power you have.

 

[hamiltonaudio 10+ year member]

Hey Kyle - here's a couple of factors that play into your somewhat disappointment:

1. power - the amp you have is near gutless.

2. crossovers - your deck does NOT have a defeatable low pass and neither does your amp - so you're crossing over a crossover. NOT good.

3. box - the box you had initially was completely wrong. Too small and tuned far too low. It also leaked and the subwoofer wasn't mounted correctly causing a rattle.

As per discussion via email - you're overgaining (and overdriving) the sub to get "more" out of it causing massive clipping and the popping you're hearing - all due to a lack of real power. A couple of suggestions will wake the subwoofer up BIGTIME:

1. correct box - I happen to have one in my showroom as per Jay's photo above

2. correct settings - swapping out your signal from the permanently crossed over sw output to say even the rear channels will help - then you can rely on just the filter on the amp.

3. time - that sub will wake up as puggsley said after 10-12 hours of use

Your amplifier is the final issue in the chain - there's a reason you paid so little for it. Based on what I've heard in your car its lucky to make 600 wrms. We've have TREMEMDOUS success with this driver in other applications - which tells us you've got some issues to work out before you condemn the driver //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif An offer I'll make you that you can take up on anytime - Jay has a box for a single 12 in his truck right now that is near perfect for that IXL - he happens to have serious US Amps power to work with. I'm willing to swap in YOUR IXL into his box and have a listen. You'll have eliminated the issues of wrong box, poor power and multiple filters. I GUARANTEE you'll agree its twice the driver your Type R was and will work on the things I've suggested above //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

bmoney

 

[72 chevy van 10+ year member]

it's all in the box.