Can you free air a Kickers?

[Octavio 10+ year member]

I saw a video of some guys with a CVR12 on free air pumping hard and the sub did not damage ... is that posible? same question for a 8's cvr

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[btlking 10+ year member]

not recommended

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Other than to test for mechanical damage, why would you?

 

[Audiopipetwo15s 10+ year member]

kickers are made for inside the box not outside

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

kickers are made for inside the box not outside

most subs are

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

most subs are

Name a subwoofer that is intended to play with no enclosure what so ever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Remember, this thread is about free-air, not infinite baffle.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

Name a subwoofer that is intended to play with no enclosure what so ever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Remember, this thread is about free-air, not infinite baffle.

i thought acoustic visions used to sell one. I know they had an IB. I don't see how a free-air sub would make much noise, other than mechanical, anyway.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

i thought acoustic visions used to sell one. I know they had an IB. I don't see how a free-air sub would make much noise, other than mechanical, anyway.

How would Acoustic Visions have made a subwoofer that inherantly seperates front and rear waves to avoid cancellation? Just to name one issue with the idea of a speaker intentionally designed for free-air use. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

The only thing I can figure is perhaps the OP is simply asking if he CAN do it to test the sub for some reason, not necessarily to run it that way. I sure hope that's the case. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

How would Acoustic Visions have made a subwoofer that inherantly seperates front and rear waves to avoid cancellation? Just to name one issue with the idea of a speaker intentionally designed for free-air use. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
The only thing I can figure is perhaps the OP is simply asking if he CAN do it to test the sub for some reason, not necessarily to run it that way. I sure hope that's the case. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I remember them having some kind of odd woofer, and I thought the same thing. I almost bought a couple of their IB subs that had NO mechanical noise.

to the OP, do NOT try to send RMS free-air it doesn't take much to get subs going free-air. wall sockets do a nice job if your into reconing.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Name a subwoofer that is intended to play with no enclosure what so ever. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Remember, this thread is about free-air, not infinite baffle.

I'm willing to bet the Soundsplinter RL-s would do quite nicely in a dipole configuration //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

OK, so open baffle isn't technically "free air"...but there's no enclosure, close as you're going to get to it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

I'm willing to bet the Soundsplinter RL-s would do quite nicely in a dipole configuration //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
OK, so open baffle isn't technically "free air"...but there's no enclosure, close as you're going to get to it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

that's what they called it. I thought it was an adire too.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Wiggins put a bunch of Extremii in open baffle, and used a planar tweet in the middle...supposedly sounded amazing once you got 250W to each //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Some people swear by OB, but to do it right you need a big room, active Xovers, lots of power to dump into high excursion drivers. Not to mention panel sizes get huge if you want any kind of low end...

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Good catch, I wasn't thinking about a dipole setup. But really, they aren't realistic in car audio anyway. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

no box

http://ohgizmo.com/2005/10/31/worlds-most-powerful-subwoofer/

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

no boxhttp://ohgizmo.com/2005/10/31/worlds-most-powerful-subwoofer/

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