s_carter
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oh you were talking about having them cut the wood for you, i thought you meant an off the shelf blade, haha, mah bad.
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awesome deal dude! that will help things along quite a bit! take lots of build pics along the way.
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they should have had a nice 40 or 50 tooth blade there, that doesn't make any sense to me....
I make all my cuts with a straightedge and a circular saw with a 40 tooth blade kinda like this one. works great!
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i use a 1/16 inch but for predrilling the holes, and then I use elmers or titebond wood glue. you can also go with pl premium, but it is more expensive, and a bit messier.
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Damn that thing looks nasty!
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I think you will be better off cutting them separately, your jigsaw will probably be a bit overwhelmed trying to cut through 1.5" MDF.
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You will have more wood to bite into and grip with 2 layers, I'm not a huge fan on double baffling a box, just so the driver can be flush mounted, that defeats the advantage it offers. I'm all about reliability/durability first, and cosmetics last.
T-nuts are picky beasts, they usually tend to rip themselves out of the wood after removing and installing the speaker a few times, in my experience. There are a few styles of t-nuts that do work rather well, but they are expensive, and I haven't been able to find them lately. Maybe some body else can chime in and recommend some for you.... If you go with 1.5 inch thick baffle, just use screws, it will be more than enough, unless the screw breaks. I have had a few break with my 18's, but I have never had one back out or rip out of the wood. I just need to get higher grade screws.
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Once again you guys at fi have raised the bar with this lineup.
I have been running one of the two subs I got so far, on my Soundstream RUB2500.1, at 8 ohm, for about 500 watts RMS to it. I will be building a new enclosure at 3.5 for the pair, tuned to 30 hertz soon.
I first ran it in an optimal (0.707) sealed box, at 1.25 cubes, and let me say, it sounded excellent! I'm not a huge fan of sealed subs, but this had me wondering if I left my 18's wired up on accident! Digs plenty low, and sounds excellent doing it. A lot more output than I was expecting for a single sealed sub... Even on oldies and stuff with really light basslines, sounds clean and clear at any volume.
Now, I have converted the box to a ported design and went with external ports, to keep the overall volume of the enclosure the same. Still at 1.25, tuned to 26 hertz, this sub gets even louder, cleaner and harder hitting. Just tons of room filling, window rattling bass. I love it! Once again, whether its classical music or a bass heavy techno song, or the most demanding action movie, the bass stay clean and clear as can be!
I would really like to see what it can do with a bit more airspace still, but even in both sealed and a super small and low tuned enclosure, it sounds excellent! I will add some more to the review as I play around with them a bit more!
Thanks again, guys, and I hope you have a safe and warm Christmas!
Sam
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Thats what 90 percent of people do in the HT forums when building a sub, except they buy their pillows at walmart. I say, fuck walmart, they are killing this country quicker than a plague.
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go to goodwill or the salvation army, and pick up a few pillows to stuff in the enclosure, about 4-6 should work nicely for a 10 cube enclosure. super cheap and your recycling something that most people wont buy. shouldnt be more than 5 bucks there.
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I usually use Drywall screws for the box, they are super cheap and grip very well. As for the filling, I try to keep it around 1/2 pound per cubic foot.
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No, I'm not trying to recone it, I just looking for parts to build it...
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Well, I'm only using a 3 inch coil for the 18. What would one of those cost shipped to Portland?
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Hoping to find a 21" basket and cone/surround for a frankensub I am looking to build, I was wondering what you had to bolt to a treo motor with a 4" coil, 6 on 5" bolt pattern, and what it would run me? I really wanted to go 22" but there just arent any parts available right now. Thanks for your time guys! Hope you have a warm and safe Christmas!
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Thats not really the point, not looking to gain anything for my system at this point. I am just building a few frankensubs with a friend, and I already own two 18's, so we wanted to go bigger. But I will end up building a of couple of 18's out of some of these motors we have anyway, since they are only 3" coils...
Are those baskets the same as whats in my SSD's? What are the spider landing measurements? And, the biggest question of the day, whats it worth to you?
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Ah, man, that is a bummer! let me know when you start pre ordering the 22's, I want to be one of the first in line. I'm loving the X12's you sent my way, and I havent even put any power to them yet. But they sure do look the part.
I am going to see what I can do about some 21" parts before I jump the gun on some 18's... but thank you guys for the response!
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I hear that ! its a journey, but it should be a fun one, even if it turns out terribly...
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Well I am trying to source all the parts out now, if I cant buy any of the them, I guess I can always have something custom made for it.
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The Treo motors originally use TCS baskets with a 6 bolt pattern on a 5 inch spacing, I believe. Looks like the others are the same, except for the Orion motor. Still trying to get that one figured out, but it is going to be used for a later project, I think.
Going with the larger 4" Treo motor, to begin with, what kind of basket options are there? I'd really like to source some parts for a 22", or a 21" if that's not possible yet...
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OK, I will have my buddy measure out the center to center spacing, and bolt pattern on the motors, and get them posted up here when I hear back from him.
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At 10 cubes, with a tune of 22 hertz, I think you will be literally blown away when you crank that beast up on some super low stuff, with movies with a lot of LFE, or songs like "the bass will destroy you". I know I love it on my setup. Did you order the sub and amp already?
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Needing a basket, as the title shows. I was wondering if you two could hook me up with something for an experiment that a friend and I are looking to undertake. I need a basket that will bolt to any of the listed motors, we have a few right now, there's a Treo SSX 534 ounce, 12" motor with a 3" coil, and a Treo 582 ounce 18" motor with a 4" coil, then we have 2 RF power series motors that are old school- like the HX2's that have 4'' coils, and we have an Orion HCCA motor with a 3'' coil.
Was hoping maybe I could get an 18" or a 22" basket to play with? Let me know if you guys can help me!
Got any parts for the 22" lineup machined yet? I would be happy to test some of them out for you guys!
Sam
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yeah 10 cubes is a monster!
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I just like to set the bar really high for my designs, and it seems to be paying off, yet another enclosure I designed was featured on CAE again as an install of the week.... I'm loving it!
The design looks great, and it should get wicked low. Have you thought about how you are going to finish it, yet?
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which box is better
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Giving them more airspace and tuning lower will give you louder lower bass, but you will sacrifice a bit on the termlab to get them to hit harder on lows. try 28 hertz tuning.