Box Shape

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

Does the shape of the box effect the preformance of the sub? (ported)

I havent delt with any sort of box besides Square and Rectangular...

Example Triangle?

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[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Round is best, let it roll around...

 

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

LOL im not building a round box...

Im just wondering because sound travles differently with the way that it bends around curves and stuff....so wouldnt a differently shaped box affect the sound? and output? or no?

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

No...

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Yes...

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Yes, anything you do to sound waves changes it slightly. Start building boxes and measure sound pressure to the smallest scale you can. Tell us what you find.

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

I hear that putting sand in the box helps is this true?

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

No, they found out sand isn't a direct replacement for SPL dust.

 

[Loudrango112 10+ year member]

I can tell that any questions I ask here will never be answered corectly...

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

I told you do the round box... n00b.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Yeah he told you a round box, the discussion was over.

The only good bet is a tear drop shape or a cone.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

what about star-shaped?

 

[bumpin_blazer 5,000+ posts]

I liked my uniquely shaped box i made once. it got a lot of comments on how well my wood was formed, the feeling of my wood was soft, the fuzz on the bottom was well maintained etc etc. I swear between the vibrations it put out and the smoothness it was a real weiner.

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

^scammer... & f@g.

 

[ruckus]

what about star-shaped?

I think the less harsh corners the tighter the sound so I wouldnt go with a star, too many hard corners. If you look at the SPL boxes they seem to even round the inside corners of the 90degree angles by putting an inverted triangle in the corners.