Venting Door Speaker Pod?

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

Do I need to vent a door pod? It's housing a CDT CL-61 and will attach to the lower door... should I vent it? How big should the hole be and should it go just through the box (venting "into" the door panel) or all the way into the door?

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[jsntarrant 10+ year member]

there is a how-to on this board i believe of someone who built a vented door pod...really detailed explanaations in there

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

^ You may be thinking kick pannels. I've never seen a guide on vented door pods..

You could build the enclosure part in the door and part out or build the whole thing on the outside of the door. Vented pods are usually pretty big so... Perhaps it would be a good idea to make the door completely airtight. Then mount the speaker like normal, find internal volume of the door, and use that to tune. That would be the easiest and probably best looking.

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

^ You may be thinking kick pannels. I've never seen a guide on vented door pods..

You could build the enclosure part in the door and part out or build the whole thing on the outside of the door. Vented pods are usually pretty big so... Perhaps it would be a good idea to make the door completely airtight. Then mount the speaker like normal, find internal volume of the door, and use that to tune. That would be the easiest and probably best looking.

well the pods are built and by venting I just mean open up a whole so the speakers are running IB instead of in a small sealed box.... I was kind of hopeing the small sealed box would work since it's totally external and I didn't wan't to make 3" holes in my door panel...

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

How big is the pod? Some speakers are only meant for IB and shouldn't be sealed up.

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

How big is the pod? Some speakers are only meant for IB and shouldn't be sealed up.

tha'ts what I thought.... it can't be more than .1-.2 cu ft

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

try it sealed, and then if it sounds shitty, vent it into the door. You never know it might work sealed and sound good.

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

How and where are the pods attached to the door?

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/iagree.gif.15d6c075ee8d3913ba26866d06993068.gif try it first.

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

How and where are the pods attached to the door?

it'll be a bolt with a big washer attached to the door panel...

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

When I e-mailed mb quart when I built my pod, they told me to cut the back out because the 6.5"s would sound better than they would sealed...

If you search somewhere I posted pics of when I was building them and such.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

My vote goes to stuffing them first and seeing what they sound like sealed. If you get poor midbass you know what you got to do then //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

well I cut the hole for IB... it was just easier... but after 4 solid hours of installing and wiring the @#%@# fuse blew when I attached the main power wire.... sigh... I'll get another one tomorrow and test it to see if it's grounded out... anyways... oh and the **** pods are hideous... I need to make new ones at some point...

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

CDT speakers usually recommend an infinite baffle installation, at most a sealed installation.

i would not vent them unless you really know what the hell you are doing.

 

[pwnt by pat 10+ year member]

it'll be a bolt with a big washer attached to the door panel...

Thanks, smartass. I ment where on the door //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif