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- From: bell@hops.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: Decreasing Volume in Sub-box
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:37:24 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
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- In article <6936@dove.nist.gov> keys@starchild.ncsl.nist.gov (Lawrence B. Keys) writes:
- >
- > (...)
- >
- >Anyway, my question is, how can i reduce box volume without building
- >a new box, and without making the box any heavier? Would blocks of
- >foam of the proper volume do the trick?`
- >
-
- Foam won't do the trick at all - in fact it will make the apparent volume of
- the enclosure larger! The only way (that I know of) to reduce the volume of
- the enclosure without rebuilding it is to put in something solid to take up
- space. Probably the easiest thing would be to just put in a piece of wood like
- this:
-
- +-----------------+
- | |
- | |
- | |
- | |
- +-----------------+ <-- new piece of wood goes here, parallel with bottom of
- | | the box
- | |
- +-----------------+
-
- (front view of box)
-
- Apologies for the poor graphics! Make sure that the piece of wood is just as
- thick as the original walls of the box.
-
- On the other hand, you might not really need to shrink to volume of the box.
- Your problem is compounded by the fact that the port size and length is
- calculated based on a specific (and exact) box volume. By changing the box
- volume, you ruined the port tuning. What I would try first is recalculating
- the port dimensions for the larger box. If you don't have access to a program
- to do this with, you can e-mail me the specs for your woofer and I would be
- happy to run it through Perfect Box for you. You should find that the proper
- size port will make a huge difference.
-
- The biggest disadvantage you will have then is that you may not be getting
- optimum performance out of your subwoofer in terms of bass extension and
- power handling. Again, a box modeling program like Perfect Box can tell just
- what you are losing, so you can decide if it's worth it to change the box
- volume.
-
- -----
- John Bell
- NASA Langley Research Center
-