if building a sealed enclosure does shape change the sound?

[lubetek 10+ year member]

Not sure if it makes a difference. I was going to build a cube butdoes it make a difference?

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[Worlddre 5,000+ posts]

ive heard that changing the shape or angling the back of the enclosure can help reduce standing waves but at the same time i think some acoustic damping can be added to achieve the same affect

 

[Savstyle 10+ year member]

^ nice sig and avatar Boondocks is the shit

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

I'd be willing to bet money you can't sit in a vehicle with a sealed box and think "He's running an asymmetrical/ wildly-shaped enclosure!" just by listening to it, so my vote goes to "no".

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

I'd be willing to bet money you can't sit in a vehicle with a sealed box and think "He's running an asymmetrical/ wildly-shaped enclosure!" just by listening to it, so my vote goes to "no".

Quite un-true. Box shape does have a large bearing on the sound. The truly best loudspeaker shape would be a spherical enclosure, while the next practical is just a cube. Believe it or not, but the standing waves in a rectangular enclosure are not optimal. This is in the LDC, so correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[mikescanlon 10+ year member]

http://www.firemountainsolar.com/Star/Spherical%20500%20gallon.jpg[\img]

put your 18 right on the top of that thing, it'll wang.

you think that would work lemans?

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

put your 18 right on the top of that thing, it'll wang.

you think that would work lemans?

noob

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

supposedly, mounting the sub in the center of a sealed box is not good either..

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

supposedly, mounting the sub in the center of a sealed box is not good either..

x2, I read that as well, that's why I offset my speakers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[stones 10+ year member]

I may be wrong here but I thought that because the wavelength of the sub bass frequency's being larger then the box itself, that internal standing waves are not really a problem.

I'm no box specialist by any means but I'm curious about the wavelength thing.

 

[swc204 10+ year member]

in car you wouldnt be able to tell a difference as long as the volume is the same