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robb420in323

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Posted: August 18, 2004 at 12:49 PM / IP Logged

What would the benifets of a folded horn enclosure be.. I want to try it..

What subs would be a good choice?

i will use MDF

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awilliams64

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Posted: August 18, 2004 at 11:01 PM / IP Logged

w/ a folded horn enclosure you can get tremendous amount of bass from a single speaker with very little power. The drawback is that you drastically reduce the amount of watts you sub can take. A 500 watt sub for example will only hold about 150 watts in a folded horn box. This box is big and is really hard on subs but a bass machine!! I did one w/ a 15" kicker L7 when they first came out and it was great.

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Posted: August 19, 2004 at 12:27 AM / IP Logged

Heh, I just built two sub enclosures just like this using two of our 15" tempest drivers. Those things get really freakin loud.

It's a great way to get a huge amount of output from very little power. You can increase the efficiency of the system up over 100 dB. But they are VERY difficult to design right, and also very difficult to build. They are also very large (the one's I built are 3' by 3' by 1.5').

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zane9000

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Posted: August 19, 2004 at 2:01 AM / IP Logged

where does one get info on designing such a box?

I had Cheetos and wine for dinenr.

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Maxst

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Posted: August 24, 2004 at 12:19 AM / IP Logged

http://www.melhuish.org/audio/horndesign.html

http://www.sound.westhost.com/tsp.htm

good info sites.

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mobile E

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Posted: August 24, 2004 at 1:21 AM / IP Logged

holy crap that looks intense

everything stolen :(

Workin on a new system :)

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robb420in323

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Posted: August 24, 2004 at 4:00 PM / IP Logged

i think this is the way to go.

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