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Anonymous | Anybody have any calculators or tables that tell what box volume is needed for what size sub like say a 3" sub would need a .5cuft box and so on BTW i dont have the ts parameters or the manufacterers name or model no. |
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Silver Member Username: LexuscoopPost Number: 152 Registered: Dec-05 | 3" sub?? |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 206 Registered: Oct-05 | heh heh,i actually have a 4 and 5 1/4 inch sub thing pounds,both r 15w and i didnt say rms..lol |
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Silver Member Username: LexuscoopPost Number: 158 Registered: Dec-05 | is that like, REALLY a sub.. if its like... 3-6 inches? |
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Bronze Member Username: HootzSaskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada Post Number: 61 Registered: Oct-05 | box size isn't going to matter too much.....those are probably just woofers, not subs. |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 208 Registered: Oct-05 | Actually they are subwoofers,that go down to 20hz which makes them subwoofers!! |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 209 Registered: Oct-05 | http://reviews.cnet.com/Altec_Lansing_AVS300_Multimedia/4507-3179_7-6055503.html ?tag=sub this is 5" |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1335 Registered: Nov-04 | Anything over 8 Inches is considered a actual subwoofer. |
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Bronze Member Username: HootzSaskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada Post Number: 62 Registered: Oct-05 | are we talking about cars or computers? The only car subs I've seen that small come with factory premium audio systems, and they suck. If you want to put a PC sub in your car, go hard. But don't get to picky about box volume cause it's not going to make much of a difference. |
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Silver Member Username: LexuscoopPost Number: 187 Registered: Dec-05 | so if i make a tweeder go down to 20Hz... that will make it a sub... crasy... |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 210 Registered: Oct-05 | Definitions of subwoofer on the Web: A speaker designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies, usually those below about 80 Hz. www.hometheatermag.com/glossary/ A loudspeaker made specifically to reproduce the lowest of audio frequencies, approximately between 45 Hz and 125 Hz. www.precisionautosound.net/glossary.html A speaker designed specifically to reproduce low-frequency information, usually between the range of 20 to 120 Hz. Dolby Digital soundtracks provide a separate low-frequency effects (LFE) channel specifically for playback over subwoofers. We were talking about subwoofers in general. Im not gonna argue cause we all have our own definitions whether accurate or not we still believe they are true,Right?? |
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Bronze Member Username: HootzSaskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada Post Number: 65 Registered: Oct-05 | I know a subwoofer is defined by the frequency response. When a guy starts a thread in a car audio forum, asking about box volume for a 3" sub, I have to wonder if this guy is wasting his time building a box for his woofers. You say you have 4 and 5 1/4" subs, I also assume they are woofers. Not that you're talking about computer speakers in a car audio forum. So if you don't want an arguement, don't come at me with frequency responses and exclamation marks. I'm done. |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 212 Registered: Oct-05 | yea im done 2,but we didnt answer the dudes question..lol...we prob scared him. |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1341 Registered: Nov-04 | I was actually stating a fact that i read somewhere but the link is on my labtop that I used to use. It was something about bose audio not able to claim a certain product a subwoofer but rather bass unit because it only contained a 6.5 inch speaker. |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1342 Registered: Nov-04 | Heres what is actually was "First of all, 5.5-inch drivers are not intended to be used as bass drivers; they are clearly midrange drivers. In fact, Bose doesn't even claim that its "Bass Module" is in fact a subwoofer because they can't! True subwoofers start at 8 inches and taper off at 15 inches in diameter" Its from here http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 213 Registered: Oct-05 | thats serious sh!t talk....i dont even understand how they could talk such sh!t and put it online 2. "5.5-inch drivers are not intended to be used as bass drivers; they are clearly midrange drivers" i could slap the fool who said that |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1344 Registered: Nov-04 | what man its true |
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Bronze Member Username: Alex_fLawrenceburg, Ky Us Post Number: 98 Registered: Nov-05 | i looked at a $1400 bose home theatre system, and the bass was 3 5 1/4 drivers. LOL |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1345 Registered: Nov-04 | https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/car-audio/155602.html |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1346 Registered: Nov-04 | https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/car-audio/155602.html |
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Bronze Member Username: HootzSaskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada Post Number: 68 Registered: Oct-05 | Even if they say the frequency responce of a sub that small goes down to 20 hz, frequencies that low are felt more than they're heard. And with a driver that small, it couldn't move nearly enough air to make any audible difference. My home theatre towers have 6 1/2 inch woofers in them with a min freq response of 30 hz, which is around what most home theatre speakers would be. but listen to them without the sub, then turn on the sub. you'll hear lows with the sub that weren't there without it. |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 214 Registered: Oct-05 | no bassmanmike its not Subwoofers use drivers (woofer) with cones typically coming in 10" or 12" sizes, but can be as large as 34", and as small as 4". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subwoofer |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1349 Registered: Nov-04 | Ok then i wanna see you pull up at a SPL comp "goin check out my subs" and then you pop the trunk with a crowd of poeple around with your 4 inch "subs" sitting in a box and see what they have to say about it. |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1350 Registered: Nov-04 | And since when do poeple who write encyclopedias know anything about audio. |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 215 Registered: Oct-05 | wait wait wait,we are not limiting the uses of subs to cars alone I once worked in an arcade and quite a few of the subs were 4" and up and they would pound u could feel them. and we're not saying that a sub has to be loud to be a sub!?!? |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1352 Registered: Nov-04 | idk i just always considered anything smaller then a 8 mid-bass |
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Gold Member Username: AraknidBOCA , FL U.S. Post Number: 1353 Registered: Nov-04 | My dads crappy stock 6x9's can hit frequencies lower then 100 Hz and I dont go around callin them subs you know what I mean. |
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Silver Member Username: Graphix1Santa Rosa Heights, Arima Trinidad & T... Post Number: 216 Registered: Oct-05 | yeah i hear ya,the only reason i arued so long is cause all i ever had was small a$s subs and they worked great,but im movin up in the game hopefully i see a couple 18s in my future |
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Blair_aus Unregistered guest | I have a seen with a guy (who won the IASCA nationals a couple of years ago for his category) who had 3 12's but had a focal 5" 'subwoofer' in the dash under the head unit to image the bass to the front. I thought it was pretty innovative. I've always been told that subs and mid bass drivers were of completely different construction, in which case these small subwoofers are just that...subwoofers and designed to be used as so. |