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dwarren

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Posted: February 01, 2005 at 4:54 PM / IP Logged

I just put together a dual ported box (12"). I left an overhang on the top and bottom by about 2.75 inches. Its' total length is about 32". The port is in the middle. I want to construct some sort of grill for the subs and maybe something for the port. No spinnig or chrome cover ideas please. Wood or something tasteful. I have not carpeted the box yet. Any comments would be great.

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Posted: February 01, 2005 at 5:04 PM / IP Logged

Grill cloth always seems to work pretty well... why would you want to cover your speakers with wood? Makes it hard to hear them unless it's a bandpass. :)

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Posted: February 01, 2005 at 6:02 PM / IP Logged

Although this wouldn't help for the port, something people always forget is that speakers have built in grills. All you have to do is mount it backwards where the magnet is on the outside of the enclosure. You can inverse mount the port too, but it doesn't look as good. Grill ideas -- posted image.

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I actually did an inverse port for a guy once. Built the ports completely outside the enclosure and put it through the rear deck. His theory was more SPL inside the car with the ports venting into the car's interior. Used dual 6" PVC directed through two holes cut in the rear deck, with a 90 degree bend inside the car so the ports were facing the front seat. Looked real stupid and sounded pretty bad, actually, but he was happy.

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I'll bet. I did an install in a Porsche not too long ago and the port was outside the enclosure as well. It's a great way to go if you need a REALLY long port and don't want to do a bunch of folds.

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Make a grill out of plexiglass....Cut the symbol for the subs out of the plexi....To get them away from the sub get some chrome plumbing metal tube from any local hardware store cut it too length and screw through the plexi screws going through the plumbing tube and into the box.....

You wil have to use long srews but I have done this before and it looked really good...I used screws with machine heads on them and it gave it a little bit of an industrial look...

You can buy a length of chrome plumbing tube really cheap....

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I'll bet you could make a nice looking grille out of dowel rods, using some polyurethane to make them shine.

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i once had to put my ports on the outside of a home system. there were four 4" in diameter pvc pipes that were 8" long. as you guys can guess that box needed quite a bit of bracing and i had not taken into account how much i was going to actually need. i couldnt fit the entire length of the ports even if i had calculated the extra bracing i had anyways. beautiful monstrosity that i still have to this day. my friends and i make bets to which port will fall off first when really pushing the speakers. i thought epoxy and liquid nails would hold anything.

now to answer the question and be on topic, stick with the grill cloth for simplicity, being subtle, and having a classier looking box

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hey, can i get a pic of these inverse mounted ports. i've never seen anything like that, atleast i dont think i have. sounds like it'd look pretty stupid.

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Posted: February 02, 2005 at 10:52 AM / IP Logged

it does in most applications. you can make them look good if you are creative.

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