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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8711768" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>Well, with a cordless drill, a jigsaw, and a caulking gun you could possibly pay a lumber yard a small fee to cut your pieces for you and assemble yourself. Or reach out to a proper cabinet maker who may be able to do the whole thing or at least cut pieces for you. Otherwise I really don't know how many active members we have here from the UK. </p><p></p><p>Certainly you can make that sub play 28hz loud but possibly at the expense of everything else and not very efficiently particularly if you can't find a lot more volume. What's worse is you're likely very limited in access to different equipment. </p><p></p><p>It looks like the box you have is the Orion reccomended, but typically these companies lie about how much space you need because the average bonehead thinks that bigger is better and will opt for the biggest thing that they think they can shove into whatever space they think they have.</p><p></p><p>Really I'd expect if you could get your box up to 4 cubic feet net, 50-60 square inches of port area and keep tuning around 40hz it would probably do well overall and be able to play down to 32ish. Assuming that Orion sub has 2.5" diameter coil it should be pretty hard to hurt it with only 700w amp. </p><p></p><p>My top suggestion would be if you only have 3 cube to work with and care to be able to play really low and maintain any output anywhere else you'd do better picking a 12" sub, though the ones I can think of that would get you there are on the pricey side here in the USA and would likely be awful after you paid for freight and taxes to get them over there. If you want to see what happens for tuning lower with what you have, see if you can't find some PVC pipe to replace the 4" round port you probably have and just start testing different length ports. Either way, I'd encourage you to think of a way you can adjust port length down the road if you discover you don't like overall response of the system once you get the tuning frequency very low.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8711768, member: 614752"] Well, with a cordless drill, a jigsaw, and a caulking gun you could possibly pay a lumber yard a small fee to cut your pieces for you and assemble yourself. Or reach out to a proper cabinet maker who may be able to do the whole thing or at least cut pieces for you. Otherwise I really don't know how many active members we have here from the UK. Certainly you can make that sub play 28hz loud but possibly at the expense of everything else and not very efficiently particularly if you can't find a lot more volume. What's worse is you're likely very limited in access to different equipment. It looks like the box you have is the Orion reccomended, but typically these companies lie about how much space you need because the average bonehead thinks that bigger is better and will opt for the biggest thing that they think they can shove into whatever space they think they have. Really I'd expect if you could get your box up to 4 cubic feet net, 50-60 square inches of port area and keep tuning around 40hz it would probably do well overall and be able to play down to 32ish. Assuming that Orion sub has 2.5" diameter coil it should be pretty hard to hurt it with only 700w amp. My top suggestion would be if you only have 3 cube to work with and care to be able to play really low and maintain any output anywhere else you'd do better picking a 12" sub, though the ones I can think of that would get you there are on the pricey side here in the USA and would likely be awful after you paid for freight and taxes to get them over there. If you want to see what happens for tuning lower with what you have, see if you can't find some PVC pipe to replace the 4" round port you probably have and just start testing different length ports. Either way, I'd encourage you to think of a way you can adjust port length down the road if you discover you don't like overall response of the system once you get the tuning frequency very low. [/QUOTE]
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