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Under powering a sub, Large enclosure or recommended for more output?
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<blockquote data-quote="why3zx" data-source="post: 8643515" data-attributes="member: 672515"><p>Just picked up a SD-3 10" D4 in the yardsale.</p><p></p><p>Description says its built with very soft suspension and made to use in very small sealed enclosures.</p><p></p><p>Box is under the back seat of my 05 Ram, It is a dual sub box that has been re-baffled to a single 10" so its currently sitting at ~1.3^3. So 1.1^3 after displacement. Sundown recommends .5 cube sealed.</p><p></p><p>Sub will be powered by a Kenwood 5ch amp, Sub channel is rated at 500 RMS @ 2ohm. And likely overrated at that. Tuned clean this sub will be receiving much less power than its rated.</p><p></p><p>So my question is; If one is under-powering a sub, will more output be realized by using a larger sealed enclosure than recommended, or is the best bet to stick to recommended enclosure size no matter what you're feeding the driver?</p><p></p><p>If this doesn't work I may be giving up my quest to get decent bass in this truck without sacrificing any usable room. First attempt was with 2 cheap 12" subs (I was pretty uneducated at that time), they were just suffocated, not sure why these boxes are even built or sold. Next attempt, I raised the seats (I have 4th gen seats so already more room under the back seat) cut out the baffle, added a new baffle with about an inch more height to the box and cut it for a single 10", currently running a Massive Audio Torox sub, better than the 12s but I dont even have enough power to get this thing moving in a sealed application.</p><p></p><p>So on to try the sundown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="why3zx, post: 8643515, member: 672515"] Just picked up a SD-3 10" D4 in the yardsale. Description says its built with very soft suspension and made to use in very small sealed enclosures. Box is under the back seat of my 05 Ram, It is a dual sub box that has been re-baffled to a single 10" so its currently sitting at ~1.3^3. So 1.1^3 after displacement. Sundown recommends .5 cube sealed. Sub will be powered by a Kenwood 5ch amp, Sub channel is rated at 500 RMS @ 2ohm. And likely overrated at that. Tuned clean this sub will be receiving much less power than its rated. So my question is; If one is under-powering a sub, will more output be realized by using a larger sealed enclosure than recommended, or is the best bet to stick to recommended enclosure size no matter what you're feeding the driver? If this doesn't work I may be giving up my quest to get decent bass in this truck without sacrificing any usable room. First attempt was with 2 cheap 12" subs (I was pretty uneducated at that time), they were just suffocated, not sure why these boxes are even built or sold. Next attempt, I raised the seats (I have 4th gen seats so already more room under the back seat) cut out the baffle, added a new baffle with about an inch more height to the box and cut it for a single 10", currently running a Massive Audio Torox sub, better than the 12s but I dont even have enough power to get this thing moving in a sealed application. So on to try the sundown. [/QUOTE]
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