Sub box design program

[SicAudio 5,000+ posts]

i use bbp6 and long math but it is rarely if ever wrong, great software, alot of manufacturers use it too.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

i use bbp6 and long math but it is rarely if ever wrong, great software, alot of manufacturers use it too.

Not quite. Like most functional software programs, it requires that the user have a knowledge of what the program is doing for it to be of any use at all. It's when people download it without knowing enclosure design using pencil and paper that they come on here asking for help. If you don't know how to design without a program, then the software is completely useless because you can't interpret your results as being accurate or not. Someone sent me a bassbox file of their "optimum" enclosure which had a port that was 2.61" wide by 13.11" tall and 68.88" long for a single Type R 12 and they wanted to know if that sounded okay. Yeah, if you knew how to design your speakers without a computer, you'd know that is simply an impossible number and something is wrong.
I liken it to driving a sequential manual transmission. To be able to drive a SMG car, you need to know how to drive a standard transmission as the only difference between the two is your left foot moving. If you don't know how, then you'll never have any idea what gear you should be in, what the engine is telling you, how to take off smoothly without being jerky, will not know how and when to downshift (potentially very dangerous if you downshift during a high speed corner) and numerous other things. Basically, a program is a tool that allows you to do things that you already know how to do by hand in a fraction of the time. That's it. A calculator is useless to kids until they know how to multiply and divide by hand and only becomes of use when the concepts you're learning don't test your arithmetic skills and you need to do those quickly.