First of all, hello everyone! I just joined today! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
I've been into everything audio (car/home) for about 10 years now. My first subwoofer for a car was the old school Cerwin-Vega! Stroker 15". My buddy built me a sealed box for it as we knew nothing about porting/tuning. It actually sounded great and has become a legend among friends. Since then I grew to 6'6" tall so every vehicle has been pick ups. So I have been limited. (Alpine Type-E's, MTX Thunderforms). Well I'm turning my 06' F150 Lariat in for a 98' Ford Explorer Sport with 100k+ miles on it, so I decided to relive my old glory days. I decided to get a new Stroker Pro 12" as the 15" was out of my price range. For a box I was quoted at $130 shipped from a website for an enclosure to my exact specs including carpet & shipping (I later regret not taking advantage of this) After a few calls to Diamond Audio Technoligies (The new owners of the Mobile Audio department of CV!) I got in touch with their head enclosure engineer. After breaking my heart by telling me the new Pro is NOTHING like the old one, and that this beast was a pure SPL machine, I decided to go with his recommendation on building a bigger CuFt box then the manual states to at least get my low lows which I loved about my old 15". I tried some different enclosure software (most of them have certain issues that I've found) and went with a 3 cuft effective volume enclosure with two 17.5" long, 4" wide PVC ports with a tune of 33Hz. What ensued was a FIASCO at best. I waisted 3 days on this **** thing (took me longer as I had to watch my attention hungry 6 month old son). So here are some pics and some things I've learned. Please to enjoy...
Things I've Learned:
-If you have a decent job, pay a professional to build the god **** thing.
-Don't get the cheap carpet, get the latex backed stuff.
-Metal Splinters hurt worse then wood ones.
-Don't trust some employee at Lowe's to make the cuts on your MDF thinking they will be super accurate cuz he gets to use that cool gigantic saw, my cuts were WAY off(up to a 1/4")
-Carpeting a box is a pain in the ass.
-Make sure you have every tool you will need before you start and Plenty of Elmer's ProBond woodglue( I had to make 3 runs to ACO for tools/glue)
-Wives hate this entire process and it puts them in bad moods.
-using a 4 1/2" wide drill bit for port holes through MDF smokes power drills fast.
-STROKER PRO MUST KNOW TIP - this beast has threaded metal plates (to accept the mounting bolts) with adhesive backings so you can place them inside the box and aligned with the mounting holes. Well the adhesive *****, so spray some 3M adhesive on them and then use the included allen wrench to alight it with the hole, then immediately use a powered screwdriver to screw the bolt in, otherwise you'll have a 50/50 chance of the bolt being a millimeter off and instead of the bolt gripping, you'll hear it hit the bottom of the box and you get to try to lift this 50051389 pound sub back out to re-glue it. Trust me I have really sore fingers now.
And now the pictures, sorry for the poor quality, they are from my cell...
It has arrived...
I had the same look on my face too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
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Soundstream TRX2000D amp
I've been into everything audio (car/home) for about 10 years now. My first subwoofer for a car was the old school Cerwin-Vega! Stroker 15". My buddy built me a sealed box for it as we knew nothing about porting/tuning. It actually sounded great and has become a legend among friends. Since then I grew to 6'6" tall so every vehicle has been pick ups. So I have been limited. (Alpine Type-E's, MTX Thunderforms). Well I'm turning my 06' F150 Lariat in for a 98' Ford Explorer Sport with 100k+ miles on it, so I decided to relive my old glory days. I decided to get a new Stroker Pro 12" as the 15" was out of my price range. For a box I was quoted at $130 shipped from a website for an enclosure to my exact specs including carpet & shipping (I later regret not taking advantage of this) After a few calls to Diamond Audio Technoligies (The new owners of the Mobile Audio department of CV!) I got in touch with their head enclosure engineer. After breaking my heart by telling me the new Pro is NOTHING like the old one, and that this beast was a pure SPL machine, I decided to go with his recommendation on building a bigger CuFt box then the manual states to at least get my low lows which I loved about my old 15". I tried some different enclosure software (most of them have certain issues that I've found) and went with a 3 cuft effective volume enclosure with two 17.5" long, 4" wide PVC ports with a tune of 33Hz. What ensued was a FIASCO at best. I waisted 3 days on this **** thing (took me longer as I had to watch my attention hungry 6 month old son). So here are some pics and some things I've learned. Please to enjoy...
Things I've Learned:
-If you have a decent job, pay a professional to build the god **** thing.
-Don't get the cheap carpet, get the latex backed stuff.
-Metal Splinters hurt worse then wood ones.
-Don't trust some employee at Lowe's to make the cuts on your MDF thinking they will be super accurate cuz he gets to use that cool gigantic saw, my cuts were WAY off(up to a 1/4")
-Carpeting a box is a pain in the ass.
-Make sure you have every tool you will need before you start and Plenty of Elmer's ProBond woodglue( I had to make 3 runs to ACO for tools/glue)
-Wives hate this entire process and it puts them in bad moods.
-using a 4 1/2" wide drill bit for port holes through MDF smokes power drills fast.
-STROKER PRO MUST KNOW TIP - this beast has threaded metal plates (to accept the mounting bolts) with adhesive backings so you can place them inside the box and aligned with the mounting holes. Well the adhesive *****, so spray some 3M adhesive on them and then use the included allen wrench to alight it with the hole, then immediately use a powered screwdriver to screw the bolt in, otherwise you'll have a 50/50 chance of the bolt being a millimeter off and instead of the bolt gripping, you'll hear it hit the bottom of the box and you get to try to lift this 50051389 pound sub back out to re-glue it. Trust me I have really sore fingers now.
And now the pictures, sorry for the poor quality, they are from my cell...
It has arrived...
I had the same look on my face too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
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Soundstream TRX2000D amp
