The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: Homebrew on September 14, 2003, 04:45:18 pm
-
I'm drawing up the plans for my jukebox and plan to use car audio subs, speakers, and amps to run it. I've come to a dilemma on the type of enclosure to build for the subs. In cars, i've always used sealed boxes for size reasons and i have only heard a few cars with ported boxes and they didn't sound as good IMO. However since the subs are going to be projecting to an area much larger than a car, i'm wondering if i should use a ported enclosure. What got me thinking was that nearly all the home theater subwoofers i've seen are ported, as are most large home speakers in general. I always assumed this is because they're meant to project to a large area.
Hopefully some of audiophiles can give me some input on which would be best for me. I want the subs to hit pretty hard, but they need to be loud as well. Now i could be wrong, but i thought that ported boxes generally were louder, but lacked the punch of sealed boxes. Likewise, sealed boxes weren't as loud, but generally hit harder. I want to strike a happy medium here, so hopefully someone can lend some suggestions. Any thoughts/suggestions/input is greatly appreciated. Thanx guys,
-Kevin
-
find the manufacturers specs and build to them. They do lots of testing in both kinds of enclosures, so it takes most of the guesswork out.