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Does anyone make a subwoofer using a sealed enclosure? If they do, and you can't build one yourself, buy one.I just finished building my own sealed sub, using the Madisound 1259 driver in a six cubic foot enclosure, and it is waaaay cool. The bass is so very tight and articulated, with clean, powerful transients and no hangover or boom whatsoever. Very smooth response, down to around 25 Hz, with some weak response even below that. It integrates very well with my B&W 802's to give me a solid bottom octave that was missing before.
This unit replaces a higher end, expensive model of a very well known brand of premium quality ported sub, and the homebrew is considerably better in every respect: musicality, transient response, overall smoothness of response, and integration.
Design and construction of a sealed enclosure is simple, requiring no complex calculations or tuning. I'm sure more audiophiles would opt for a sealed enclosure if they ever heard a really good one and could accommodate the space required. I think most manufacturers offer ported designs because they are cheaper to make and sell, and can be used more conveniently, but it is a compromise design which suffers from uneven response.
If you're capable of building a sealed box, it's not much more difficult to turn it into a great sounding subwoofer for a fraction of what you'd pay for an equivalent commercially available item.
I can send pictures and details to anyone interested enough to email me.
Peace,
Tom E
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Topic - Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - madisonears 20:37:19 04/12/07 (28)
- Don't have to sell me - WildWest 20:04:15 04/16/07 (0)
- Re: Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - rkeman 05:43:07 04/15/07 (0)
- That woofer is from the NHT 3.3 and SW3P (nt) - John Ashman 22:21:31 04/13/07 (2)
- 1259 Woofer - briggs 07:15:26 04/14/07 (1)
- Interesting, thanks, I didn't know :-) (nt) - John Ashman 08:47:54 04/14/07 (0)
- Re: Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - hahax@verizon.net 20:41:08 04/13/07 (0)
- Re: Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - briggs 13:21:01 04/13/07 (0)
- Re: Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - Audioquest4life 07:10:13 04/13/07 (0)
- I've been building sealed subwoofers since 1980 and disagree with most of your conclusions - Richard BassNut Greene 07:10:02 04/13/07 (11)
- Well, I built my first pair of folded corner horns in 1970, - madisonears 15:47:40 04/14/07 (1)
- You're right, a diy sealed sub is a great idea. I am new - warnerwh 23:10:56 04/14/07 (0)
- I disagree with most of your disagreements (nt) - John Ashman 22:19:07 04/13/07 (3)
- Well I guess that would make you .... wrong (since you have no words in your post supporting your position) (nt) - Richard BassNut Greene 07:47:23 04/14/07 (2)
- No, just don't want to get into a long argument (nt) - John Ashman 08:50:17 04/14/07 (1)
- "I disagree" followed by no text is a rude post that can have no benefit for audiophiles - Richard BassNut Greene 09:29:18 04/17/07 (0)
- An octave more bass extnesion from a ported sub - suits_me 19:31:12 04/13/07 (3)
- Correction: Ported = approximately one-half octave lower, not one octave (nt) - Richard BassNut Greene 07:45:24 04/14/07 (2)
- Most designers are lucky to get 1/3 octave. nt - markrohr 10:20:41 04/14/07 (0)
- Well, that was one of my disagreements :-) (nt) - John Ashman 08:51:16 04/14/07 (0)
- Re: I've been building sealed subwoofers since 1980 and disagree with most of your conclusions - Dman 09:58:04 04/13/07 (0)
- Wait until you build a ... - gymwear5@hotmail.com 06:31:01 04/13/07 (0)
- Preaching to the converted! - Dman 05:26:34 04/13/07 (3)
- done dipoles too... - gymwear5@hotmail.com 07:57:02 04/13/07 (2)
- Re: done dipoles too... - Awe-d-o-file 10:44:38 04/13/07 (0)
- Re: done dipoles too... - Dman 09:24:59 04/13/07 (0)
- A sealed subwoofer doesn't have to be large - blue_z 00:35:44 04/13/07 (1)
- That is not a subwoofer - suits_me 19:27:34 04/13/07 (0)
- Re: Sealed enclosures for subwoofer - ontrack2@gmail.com 21:19:51 04/12/07 (0)
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