Sub Enclosures

Mbreese

I'm sure I can do this with a lil knowledge from everyone and utube ! I just know that I don't want the run of the mill bull you see out in the world ! And as music is very important to me (runs my life) it has to be wright

RonRizz

Don't forget to deduct the volume of airspace your subwoofer will consume to your box volume calculations.
For anyone interested, there are 120 cups of liquid in a cubic foot of space.
to figure the volume your subwoofer will take up, fill a 5 gallon bucket to the very top. Take your subwoofer, and loosely place it in a small trash bag, leaving a little slack around the basket. Lower the sub into the bucket up to the mounting ring, and it will displace some of the water from the bucket.
Now you need to refill the bucket, and count the # of cups it takes to get back to full.
Now do the math. Example. 8 cups to refill bucket..... 8 divided by 120 is .06 Your sub takes up .06 cu ft of Airspace.

Or do like the rest of us do, and take a wild guess!
Commonplace in a subwoofer enclosure is + or - 10% with no effect on performance.

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Jayhovah

I'm pretty sure the rest of us just look up the "driver displacement" in the specs.

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RonRizz

2 out of 100 actually list this spec. In the 30 or so years I've been doing installs, I've maybe seen a dozen that had it listed in the manuals.

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