Gonna make a box for 8" sony home sub! *PICS AND VIDEO*

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

Well i have an 8" sony sub that came in a home stereo. Its out of the original box and tommorow im going to make a large ported box for it. Im probably going to tune it pretty high just to see what it can do. Just wanted to show you guys and see what kind of box i should make? Wood resources are limited, but what cu. ft and tuning do you think the box should be just to see how loud it can get before blowing up?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

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[Silver 10+ year member]

ah just lookin at that thing makes ma ears hurt!!

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

Its not that bad.......haha

ill be sure to get a video if we blow it up, and of the final thing.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

.5 - 1ft^3 tuned to 41hz???

Worth a shot...

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

ya, im thinking as big as i can with the wood and a pretty high tuning frequency. Itll be sweet.

EDIT- this box is going to be made of whatever wood i have right now. I believe its handyboard or some crap like that.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Handyboard....whassat? Is that "whatever scraps just so happened to be handy" ?? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

.7 cu ft^3 NET @ 57hz... run a 60hz tone with wall socket 'amp'... you gotta be quick it probably won't last long

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

well im going to use it before i attemot to blow it. I dont really want to use a socket for an amp. No fires needed. Just throw whatever my most powerful receiver can put out at it. i think one of them does 125 watts......not sure

And if a receivers rated at 8 ohms, would running 6 ohms for a minute or two be horrible?

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

^^^Most recievers can run 4 ohm all day long...atleast my old Sony can....

Along with my Aiwa Mini system for that matter....

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

Sweet. I found a home theater receiver that puts out 190 to the sub. I think that will work nicely. Im not sure how to make the box though seeing as i have never made one. I may just make a sloy ported box with random size peices for the prot walls.......

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

I dont know how to make/design ported boxes so i think im going to use Moe Lester's sticky for .9 cu ft. @ 35, but make the port width wider and guees on the rest. Is it the smaller the port area, the higher the tuning? Or opposite

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Put it in a cube at 38hz. That shouldn't be too bad.

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

sony eh?? the blue ribbed looks cool

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

tune it to 32 -35hz, i'm very interested to see how it sounds cuase i have the same thing until i buy another tempest

 

[espguitarist91 10+ year member]

Well the box got buily today. It sounds pretty **** loud consider its an 8" and probably the worst box ive ever seen. We slot ported it, but i have no idea to what freq. just took 2 extra pieces and made an L shaape and attached it. I gotta say im impresses with its performance, consider the box has a lot of holes, the port is crap, and its only being fed 100 watts. I tried it with 190 and its that bug of a difference, but it handled it pretty well. Its in my room tight now and does its job well.