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<blockquote data-quote="DNick454" data-source="post: 6349501" data-attributes="member: 600755"><p>Bigger boxes yield greater efficiency but lower power handling (good if you don't quite have enough power). Smaller boxes yield higher power handing and aren't as peaky and don't provide as much impedance rise (good for SPL + burps).</p><p></p><p>The one other thing I might add is that it is alot harder to get smaller boxes tuned lower. With a 4" aero port, tuning a 3 cubic foot box to like 34Hz requires something probably only like 8" long where as trying to use the same port on a 1.8 cubic foot box, it would be longer than the box is deep.</p><p></p><p>That's why if you ever see a low tuned box for a set of 8's being built here on the site, the slot port takes up half the box volume. They sound GREAT though. With the small overall net volume, you can send them GOBS of power and they get <em>down</em> with that long ass port //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DNick454, post: 6349501, member: 600755"] Bigger boxes yield greater efficiency but lower power handling (good if you don't quite have enough power). Smaller boxes yield higher power handing and aren't as peaky and don't provide as much impedance rise (good for SPL + burps). The one other thing I might add is that it is alot harder to get smaller boxes tuned lower. With a 4" aero port, tuning a 3 cubic foot box to like 34Hz requires something probably only like 8" long where as trying to use the same port on a 1.8 cubic foot box, it would be longer than the box is deep. That's why if you ever see a low tuned box for a set of 8's being built here on the site, the slot port takes up half the box volume. They sound GREAT though. With the small overall net volume, you can send them GOBS of power and they get [I]down[/I] with that long ass port [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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