new box design.
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new box design.
so I got a set of 15" kicker CVXs and a 1500 watt jbl amp off of a friend for a pretty good price. The bad part about it is they came with a car box... so right now its stood up on the passenger side so I don't have my knees hitting the dash board, and just looks sloppy as far as I'm concerned, plus I know this set up sounds better in a well built ported box. So I designed this. (btw, google sketchup ftw)
box is gonna be about 4.7 cubic feet per side, tuned to 30 hz. The area sunk in on the face is for the arm rest, sticks out past where my seat does. top of the box is an amp rack, the cut out on the top is gonna have a plexiglass sheet with "ranger" etched into it, with LEDs underneath. the cut out in the back of the box is for the wires. The cut out on the bottom of the amp rack that you can see in the third picture is for a speaker terminal. I'm gonna probably use PC case fans for ventilation, one to push, one to pull air through the amp enclosure.
Comments? Questions?
box is gonna be about 4.7 cubic feet per side, tuned to 30 hz. The area sunk in on the face is for the arm rest, sticks out past where my seat does. top of the box is an amp rack, the cut out on the top is gonna have a plexiglass sheet with "ranger" etched into it, with LEDs underneath. the cut out in the back of the box is for the wires. The cut out on the bottom of the amp rack that you can see in the third picture is for a speaker terminal. I'm gonna probably use PC case fans for ventilation, one to push, one to pull air through the amp enclosure.
Comments? Questions?
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thought about that, it would make for a more air tight enclosure, probably end up doing that since no ones gonna see em anyways. uhhh internal demensions are something like 48x17x18/13(bottom/top)
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I might up it to 32-34, I've had these with 4 cubes tuned to 28hz and they did hit super low but didn't hit very high at all. I think the recommended tuning is 34 on the low end for these.
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Re subs are the ****. My buddy has an re sr or se 10" ported tuned to about 38hz. Thing sounds soooo clean. I think I'm gonna go tuned to 32hz, mostly cause I really like the low end bass. Bass lines like in Soul Survivor by Akon, or Beats For My Van by DJ Billy E type stuff. And if I really hate it THAT much building a different box isn't going to kill me.
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Yea. I'm still a 'young punk kid' I like my music stupidly loud, and I was never a fan of 15s in a sealed box. But like you said it's all about what you like.
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In order for the sub to sound right, you need tune the port to the subs fs (resonate frequency) parameter. not just what ever number you think is right. You will need to email kicker for the "thiele/small" parameters. use a program like winISD to model the sub in its enclosure. ported boxes are tricky to get right..
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