Recent content by Dustin B

I'd be getting a set of these: http://www.gedlee.com/Summa.htm and having Dr. Geddes design the room too.

I don't know what exactly is in the market in Australia, but from the size of the enclosure, power handling and size of drive I'd personally say no. Especially from North American standards. I'd call the list price outrageous and the price you've found high.

If it's loud enough it will actually vibrate you. Is the room open to anything else? How high are the cielings? Need that information to determine how much sub you'll need to reach levels that will shake you. What will make the vibration feel start a bit earlier would be to build a small...

Carpet would need to be ridiculously thick and porus to affect bass frequencies. Room placement is orders of magnitude more important than what the floor is made out of. 4" thick wall treatments stuffed with fiberglass insulation don't do anything to bass frequencies under 100hz. Carpet will do...

That would be a not too bad idea, but there are two issues with it. The first is as far as I know SVS will not sell their drivers for this purpose. The second is the prices for those replacement woofers are pretty high for the displacement they provide in comparison to a number of other drivers...

Roughly the same issue as the box subs. The port would be sticking out into your garage and you'd find the low bass performance to be very lack luster as a result. The only sub you could build into the wall like that is a front firing sealed sub. Something like a Paradigm Servo-15. But if you're...

That sounds fantastic. My only suggestions were going to be a subsonic filter and phase adjustments and you have them both there. If they build the unit you described above, they've got one definite sale from me.

If you got an adjacent garage you want to build out into anyways forget about a commercial sub. Infinite baffle. http://home.comcast.net/~klone-audio...-12Shiva1.html There was a great forum dedicated to these, but it seems to be down right now. The above link will get the idea across...

I'm not sure what quality the Craftsman saw you have is, but without a decent tablesaw it will be near impossible to get perfect cuts. However, proper setup of any half ways decent saw should allow for relatively clean cuts. Provided the sheet is properly supported as Leo has outlined. Here's a...

The sonotube links page seems to have disappeared so you can't use that. I did a fairly detailed job of out lining the two subs I've built on my webpage. Some searches and reading in the DIY section of this forum will turn up many more project pages and all the information you need to build a sub.

That's sounds better. I've got a Tempest in 260L, welcome to the club ;) PS - I think the closest comparison to your Tempest in the SVS line would be the Ultra.

John, not that it really matters, but could you check with your buddy again about what the design is. Are you sure it isn't a Shiva instead of a Tempest. Also allowing 8" of the height to be legs and end caps that works out to an ~160L enclosure. Take away port and driver area and you get an...

I suggest you read this: http://www.speakerbuilder.net/web_fi.../phat/hpif.htm Then do some looking around at the meriad of budget 2 way designs out there. There are some good ones on that site and more can be found on the Madisound and Parts Express sites. With this route you won't have...

Making ports longer is doing essentially the same thing as plugging a port, just without sacraficing half your port cross sectional area. When you reduce cross sectional area and keep the length the same the tuning frequency goes down, but you up the port air speed significantly limiting how...

I've got the 3 led pocket style Matterhorn AAA from these guys. http://www.peakledsolutions.com/ Bulbs last forever, really really hard to break and I think the little tiny guy I have is as bright or brighter than the AA maglite. They have LED flashlights that range in price from $30 to...