kicker vetn help
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Topic: kicker vetn help
Posted By: SpankyJohnson
Subject: kicker vetn help
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 11:31 AM
hey folks, Im building a custom box for a vw cabrio and Im going to make it so the truck floor will just looked raise up about 7 inches. Im doing this so I can still get to the sparetire, but ok to the problem. I need to know how to make a vent, I know I just cut a slit about 9 inches but is that all. I just make a box thats about 2c ft. and cut a slit in the box? or is there more to it. and Im thinking about inverting the sub so its firing into the box.
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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 12:06 PM
There is a lot more to it than just cutting a slot. Read this tutorial, it may help you. Be sure to read it all. Building a vented (or ported) enclosure is much more difficult than building a sealed one. https://www.diysubwoofers.org/prt/
Posted By: SpankyJohnson
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 12:48 PM
DYohn] wrote:
p>There is a lot more to it than just cutting a slot. Read this tutorial, it may help you. Be sure to read it all. Building a vented (or ported) enclosure is much more difficult than building a sealed one.https://www.diysubwoofers.org/prt/
So I will have better luck with just building a sealed box then? I hope it will be better then the alpine type-S 12" I have now. ------------- Do you know Spankyjohnson? He's a Big man. I'll tell him you did his boys a favor
Posted By: SpankyJohnson
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 12:49 PM
SpankyJohnson wrote:
DYohn] wrote:
There is a lot more to it than just cutting a slot. Read this tutorial, it may help you. Be sure to read it all. Building a vented (or ported) enclosure is much more difficult than building a sealed one. https://www.diysubwoofers.org/prt/
So I will have better luck with just building a sealed box then? I hope it will be better then the alpine type-S 12" I have now.
oh its a kicker solobaric L7 12" powered my kole amp. single ------------- Do you know Spankyjohnson? He's a Big man. I'll tell him you did his boys a favor
Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 1:01 PM
If you are just starting out, yes, sealed enclosures are far easier to build. If you have experience building enclosures, then tackling a ported design is the next step up in difficulty. Building the "box" is easy, mind you, it's the "getting it to sound right" part that is hard! :) A Kicker L7 and an Alpine type S are pretty different in sound, actually. The Alpine has far better SQ, the Kicker is more of an SPL pounder. Depends on what you're after I guess. A 2.0 CUFT sealed enclosure is optimum for the Kicker, or about a 2.5 CUFT ported.
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: February 15, 2004 at 2:27 PM
pick up a program like winisd, it has a lot of helpful info on building vented and round ported boxes
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