ur sub wont like the excursion.
Uhm, where did you hear this? lol
It depends. Playing right at (and only at) a ported enclosure's tuning freq will result in a much higher power handling than in sealed enclosures. This is what SPL competitors do, and how they can push 10,000+ watts to their subs. But under normal circumstances, playing music, a small sealed enclosure generally has the most power handling.
He's talking about a higher volume of airspace inside the enclosure. While its true the larger the sealed enclosure gets, the less power handling the driver will take. But that's the only thing in his post that's even remotely correct. You dont need a high excursion sub to run sealed. I mean after all, what did people do before these high excursion super subs?
Mechanical power handling, sure...but the reason that they can only do that for short "burps" is because at tuning, cone excursion is at minimum, so the sub is barely moving and almost no air is being passed over the voice coils. Thermal buildup is swift and merciless //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Im aware of this. The discussion was about which enclosure had the most power handling, not the thermal limitations of the drivers used. When running only at tunning, ported will yield the most power handling (regardless of driver thermal limits). When playing music, generally small sealed handles the most power, but of course is least efficient.
I figured that, my response was more in the sense of being educational to all the people out there that might have not - after all, this is what technical discussions are usually about, or at least what they should be about //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
That would depend on tuning, music material used, etc. Im speaking in general terms when I say small sealed usually is highest power handing (for music).
Small sealed box or large, I don't care. It will still sound better than a ported box. I think there's ahigher chance of the sub bottoming out on ported, rather than sealed, no matter small or large.
Too many false generalities in that to even address.Small sealed box or large, I don't care. It will still sound better than a ported box. I think there's ahigher chance of the sub bottoming out on ported, rather than sealed, no matter small or large.
High excursion, low excursion, what's the difference? If you play a high excursion sub soft, then it'll move only slightly. Then what? It won't like it? It's gonna sue me??
In the case of SQ, you don't need 29mm or whatever xmax of the sub. 8mm is more than enough.
I'm sticking with what I said, I prefer sealed than ported. (not into SPL anymore)
