need a box design

**scott_fx** · 07-18-2006, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by stkdidy ntshidy

two things:

a) if he's asking for us to give him ideas for a box design, he is WAAAAAY too much of a rookie to make a proper horn/quarter-wavelength/>4th-order-bandpass box.

b) horns are massive, which would be why they are used at home instead...not to mention their tendency to resonate lower, which would not be useful in a car where the resonant freq is somewhere between 55 and 80hz.

i recommend ditching the audiobahn. if absolutely determined to use both, you *could* try an isobaric enclosure, but that would still be quite difficult, not to mention hard to design properly. make sure to wire one of the subs backwards if you do tho...

isobaric with missmatched subs? that doesnt sound right to me. and as far as the horn thing...i am not sure why i even suggested it. my bad

**p&gcustoms** · 07-18-2006, 09:16 PM

downfire make a 1 1/2 lip around the speaker side flip it down and tada that way the speakers have room to play with and they dont get f-up

**scottsenia** · 07-19-2006, 11:43 PM

do you mean firing down like reverse cones. or like down towards the floor?

**scott_fx** · 07-19-2006, 11:49 PM

ok...picture a sub box where the subs are facing the sky. flip it over....thats what he meant (but be sure to put some spacers so the woofer cone doesn't hit the bottom of the trunk)

**scottsenia** · 07-20-2006, 12:10 AM

hummm ok now about the audiobahn. can anyone suggest a better sub but still keep the price down. i can go about 100 bucks for a 10'' right now. spent all my money on my alpine amp

**hornyleprechaun** · 07-20-2006, 12:13 AM

you should have just not bought the audiobahn and gotten a bigger jl sub... what model did you get for the jl anyway?

**scottsenia** · 07-20-2006, 10:54 AM

i have the w3v2

**scott_fx** · 07-20-2006, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by scottsenia

hummm ok now about the audiobahn. can anyone suggest a better sub but still keep the price down. i can go about 100 bucks for a 10'' right now. spent all my money on my alpine amp

can you sell both jl and audiobahn and get two Image dynamics or Elemental design subs? (if you want two subs....if you dont have the money why don't you just use one sub? you can make a dual chamber box and just leave on empty for the time being until you can do it right.