enclosure type?

[KleenBayce]

hey, what kind of enclosure is best for a 10 inch alpine type s? sealed
or ported or something else?


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Ported is going to give you more SPL for your watts. Go with ported.
Check out Alpines web site for plans and specs.

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Ported is going to give you more SPL for your watts. Go with ported.
Check out Alpines web site for plans and specs.

[Scott Gardner]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:53:03 +0000, KleenBayce
> wrote:

>
>hey, what kind of enclosure is best for a 10 inch alpine type s? sealed
>or ported or something else?

I've always preferred sealed boxes. For any particular subwoofer, the
recommended sealed boxes tend to be smaller than the ported boxes, and
the frequency response is flatter. Sealed boxes are also much more
forgiving if they're not exactly the right size. It's true that a sub
in a ported box will usually play louder than the same sub with the
same amp in a sealed box, but the way I look at it, watts are cheap -
if I want louder bass, I get a bigger amp.


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"Scott Gardner" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:53:03 +0000, KleenBayce
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >hey, what kind of enclosure is best for a 10 inch alpine type s? sealed
> >or ported or something else?
>
> I've always preferred sealed boxes. For any particular subwoofer, the
> recommended sealed boxes tend to be smaller than the ported boxes, and
> the frequency response is flatter. Sealed boxes are also much more
> forgiving if they're not exactly the right size. It's true that a sub
> in a ported box will usually play louder than the same sub with the
> same amp in a sealed box, but the way I look at it, watts are cheap -
> if I want louder bass, I get a bigger amp.

I agree completely with Scott.

In the middle nineties I did A LOT of experimenting with different ported
and sealed enclosures and I definitely prefer sealed. Ported boxes do not
go as low (they cannot play below the tuned frequency of the port) as
sealed, and it is not just bass crazy music where this is noticeable. I had
a ported box in my car (a single15" Soundstream SPL160 sub, a real monster
for the time) that I used for about two months. Then I switched to a pair
of 12's (Soundstream SPL12's) in a sealed box. I recall how in all kinds of
music (classical, rock, techno, etc.) I could hear details in the bass I had
never heard before with the ported box, especially very low frequency
sounds.

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[Kevin McMurtrie]

In article <1110838105.ef2b70f85a94874a2900873dde74e03d@terane ws>,
KleenBayce > wrote:

> hey, what kind of enclosure is best for a 10 inch alpine type s? sealed
> or ported or something else?

Ported enclosures give you more power but they must be very large to
produce low frequencies. An undersized enclosure will buzz at the port
or produce no deep bass.

Sealed enclosures are inefficient but they can produce at least some low
frequencies when undersized. The sound quality is very high but it can
require expensive equipment to compensate for the low efficiency.

Bandbass has the efficiency of ported with the extended low frequency
response of sealed. They slur higher frequencies and they need as least
as much space as a ported enclosure.

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KleenBayce wrote:
> hey, what kind of enclosure is best for a 10 inch alpine type s?
sealed
> or ported or something else?
>
>

My recommendation is heavy and big and enclosed box. I don't think
type of
material of box makes that different, but a weight and the less opening
does. The box has to be no opening.