OK Klapping, your seriously pulling on nerves with your absolute laziness and inco-operative behavior
If you read a full paragraph from any post i've made in this thread. i told you, specifically that having a box sent to you online will cost you more than it would to build it yourself. it would ALSO cost you A LOT less to have a box-maker, cabinet maker, general Carpenter, to build you a box. if you cant find any of those in the yellow pages, then learn. if you cant learn, find a friend that has a father and pay him in beer(wait you cant), pay him with the money you'd send your imaginary internet box maker.
sending a box through because of its weight (remember, with ported box's you will need an exceptionally bigger box [in volume alone] than you would with a sealed enclosure for the same sub. your dealing with ported box, whichs means the 'measurements' are bigger, which means more weight to each piece of wood (and its not plywood) ) will cost you near the amount of one shiva.
[quote]150 bucks for a god damn cube of wood... is rediculous... and i have no idea who makes, boxes, aroun me... i can just buy one online that is relatively close... i need help finding one though...[/quote]
but there is a site on the internet that is run by a volunteer servent for the united states, he makes box's for people, and sends them free of charge, and the only thing is he asks that you beable to grow mdf-trees out of thing air as payment.
we have offered numerous posts telling you NOT to patch your current box. by all means a common sense reason aside from reasons we gave, would have been, its a back up box incase you ever need your sonys while something is in on repair. i dont know the extent of your damage to the box right now. and by now im not concerned or willing to help you with anymore input.
you did not even go far enough as to RESEARCH what would be a better idea. not likely, you continually told us that you dont understand. which is fair. but you never even attempted to learn. if you want to be an ass on the street goto your local low-end retailer and look for some pyramid 15" subs, and run them off your current amp in a proper ported box, you cant talk to the guy on the internet i told you about, just make sure you got that tree handy.
you got the suggestion for a shiva sub which is a great sub for the price, and offers a good balance of SQ/SPL, and you went ahead to save a buck or 2 and patch your current box up thinking it would be your best bet with those subs. but in almost any case, ported subs will provide a louder sound. why do you think your sony's were in a ported box, they need all the help they can get. i cant remember if anyone suggested you to go with a SEALED Box or not, in this thread, and frankly there are too many pages, with useful content for me to actually sift through and re-read, but if we did, we did so unknownly you wanted pure SPL and very little (if any) SQ.
you wanted a good suggestion for your subs? a sealed box would be good, for an overall SQ/SPL performance. a box, again roughly 1.2cuft (or w/e stephen suggested a 'few' pages back)
now 9pages into this thread you tell us that you dont care about SQ and just want people to hear you, well thats fine, but you didnt need shivas, and you didnt need a sealed box as you found out.
BTW, because the shiva is a different sub, your current ported box would not have been a good idea either way, your probably going to get a better sound/SPL out of your box the way it is now, than you would if you left it ported.
if you have had any problems with terms, or acronyms, used in this thread there is a link on the left of this site called the glossary, glossarys usually contain words, terms, or abreviations which are relevant to the book or website
if you cant find it click:
https://www.the12volt.com/glossary/glossary.asp
the page is even setup so if you need to find a word, by the first letter of the word, you can click on the letter at the top, and it will show all the words beginning with that letter. thats also called alphabetically alphabetized.
hopefully some of 'this' information has been helpful as it would seem you never read any of my posts that contained more than 2sentences.