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<blockquote data-quote="96civ" data-source="post: 1419410" data-attributes="member: 564776"><p>The kicker manual shows air volumes that aren&#039;t exactly best for your driver. If the TOTAL internal air volume (both subs included) is 3-4 ft^3, it&#039;s not going to sound all that great -- the bass will be boomy. Technically, if you wanted to get the best overall sound out of using a sealed enclosure, (with a qtc of .707) you would need nearly 9.67 ft^3 PER sub. That&#039;s only one of the subs and because you have two subs, it will need a total of 19.34ft^3... not very space efficient. If I were you I would continue the ported route because IMO ported&#039;s have better SQ for the space it takes up, as well as it has more potential to be louder. I can tell you this from experience because I had a 1.5ft^3 sealed enclosure for my 05s12l504 and it would be boomier, couldn&#039;t hit lower bass notes well... so I upgraded to a ported box and it sounds soo much better. If I wanted to achieve similar bass handling from the same sub I would have needed 4.3ft^3 airspace instead of the total 3.366ft^3 I had for the ported box, including port and driver displacement.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="96civ, post: 1419410, member: 564776"] The kicker manual shows air volumes that aren't exactly best for your driver. If the TOTAL internal air volume (both subs included) is 3-4 ft^3, it's not going to sound all that great -- the bass will be boomy. Technically, if you wanted to get the best overall sound out of using a sealed enclosure, (with a qtc of .707) you would need nearly 9.67 ft^3 PER sub. That's only one of the subs and because you have two subs, it will need a total of 19.34ft^3... not very space efficient. If I were you I would continue the ported route because IMO ported's have better SQ for the space it takes up, as well as it has more potential to be louder. I can tell you this from experience because I had a 1.5ft^3 sealed enclosure for my 05s12l504 and it would be boomier, couldn't hit lower bass notes well... so I upgraded to a ported box and it sounds soo much better. If I wanted to achieve similar bass handling from the same sub I would have needed 4.3ft^3 airspace instead of the total 3.366ft^3 I had for the ported box, including port and driver displacement. [/QUOTE]

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