Anthony_I
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Ok so in a few hours i will be going out to buy the wood required ot build myself a speaker box for my speaker.
Now the company recommends a box of 0.9 Cu. Ft.
Now the company recommends a box of 0.9 Cu. Ft.
The Octane-R subwoofers are over engineered and overbuilt in virtually every way conceivable. Its very important
that the enclosure is built to these same exacting standards. The enclosure must be comprised of .75 inch
MDF. Screws or air staples are excellent construction fasteners when used with a strong bonding “yellow” wood
working glue that can fill joint gaps. Be sure that the enclosure’s panels are airtight at all joining seams. Lining
the walls with a polyester matting 1 to 3 inches thick is sufficient.
The charts provided should be used as a reference when building an enclosure for your Octane-R subwoofer.
The charts contain several enclosure types. The Sound Quality enclosure provides deeper, tighter, and more
musical output to truly reproduce the original source material. While the SPL fits the basshead’s needs of
maximum output while sacrificing some sound quality.
I was told here in another thread that i should go bigger, and use something about 3.0 Cu. Ft. because this is not going to be in a car (im using a car audio speaker) and using the box size that the company suggest wouldn't sound right.
But how accurate is this? I do trust the opinions provided here but i really want to be sure before i spend the money and build it only to find that it doesn't work well with the speaker.
I was also thinking of going as big as 7.0 Cu. Ft. as it results in a an F3 of 20Hz, whereas 0.9 Cu. Ft. has an F3 of 34Hz. also because using a 7 Cu. Ft. box will give me max excusion (12.3 mm, max for the speaker is 12.5) and as far as i know, the more air it can displace the more sound you get??!
does any of that really matter?
What should i do?