Kicker Ports ha ha!

There is noting wrong with using a large port as long as it is properly designed for the enclosure.  In fact, large ports can be an excellent solution assuming you have desinged them correctly.  I was just making fun of what appeared to be merely a marketing gimick in the first post.Support the12volt.com

DYohn wrote: There is noting wrong with using a large port as long as it is properly designed for the enclosure.  In fact, large ports can be an excellent solution assuming you have desinged them correctly.  I was just making fun of what appeared to be merely a marketing gimick in the first post.

You are right, unfortunately, the average joe does not know enough about subs and porper port tuning, so they do go with what is flashy and looks cool, how do you think Sony Explod and Audibahn are still around

(not saying these brands are total crap, they are just crap, I have heard some decent sounding subs and have seen amps that come close to the power they advertise...at 20 volts from both brands.)

I am sure there is a practical use for a 10 inch port, but I am sure that most people could sleep inside a box that huge, that and it would be pretty tough to keep calcualting box volume and port volume when you have to refigure the air displacement of the port... but I for some reason just do it the old fashioned way, I am sure this would not be a problem with something like winsl, or what ever it is

eh? what did you just say?

Just as a point of reference for anyone who's made it this far into this thread, assuming a 4 cuft enclosure for dual 10" woofers, if it used 2X10" diameter ports and was tuned to 30Hz: each port needs to be 110.27" long. That would be an interesting enclosure.Support the12volt.com

I think I saw them making that on the next pimp my ride! lolTell the Snap-On guy I'm not here!

the dual comp boxes sound like *ss, but the dual 12 compVR loaded enclosure pounds. as does the single L5 12 box, but its ports aren't huge like the previous 2. its definitely not made for sq, but otherwise kicks ass, if thats what you are looking for. as for the size of the ports, I some how doubt a company like kicker would put a port in their boxes that was useless, it just doesnt make sense to spend the money to do something that is a hinderance, marketing or not. (I admit when I saw those ports, and stuck my arm ALL THE WAY IN, i was like w t f?) they even have a ton of polyfill in there too. as for audiobahn, I've installed quite a few of their amps (subs in general are so so, nothing special) but I respect their amps for the money.   the 8000t 800@2ohm amp is pretty solid,(only problem ive seen is that the fans sometimes go bad, but easily fixed, and not really needed in the first place) and I've put other 4 channel amps in cars, had noise, and replaced them with an audiobahn amp and had the problem disappear.

the new box we are designing for a single 18 inch sub will have a port that is 4 inchs wide by 46 inches long by 10.5 inches deep.       thats a big port.....or my ported SQL boxes      it is common to see a port thats 2 wide by 13.5 long by 20-30 deep        ports are crazy,      learn them    respect them2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR

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i built a box for the solo-x last summer that had two interchangable ports...one for daily listening and one for spl in a 10 cubic foot box...i could crawl into the box through the spl port. absoultley huge.

dont forget the fact that these loaded kicker boxes have a ton of polyfill as well stuffed in there, cheating the airspace even more.