Posted July 10, 200520 yr I know most of you guys over here are all for SI and SS and it doesn't seem like you get much talk over here about RE. Well my question involves RE, and I'd appriciate some input...I drive a 1995 Ford Explorer XLT. I was going to pick up a set of 12" RE SEs and port them at 33 Hz. I was going to use the following box deminsions:36" length13.5" height23.5" depthWell today I measured and made some what of a template to see how big the box would be in my Explorer. Everything is fine except I don't want it so deep. I've talked with a few guys from RE or who know alot about them and they said I couldn't really make it any smaller. Is that true?OrShould I go with a single 12" or 15" RE SX and port it. I would assume the SX's box would hopefully be smaller. What do you guys think? I'm probably going to throw about 1200 watts at the subs. I'd like to keep the box in between 13"-18"ish deep if possible. What do ya'll think?
July 10, 200520 yr Author Well the top of the seat if 18" so I don't want to go any higher than that.
July 10, 200520 yr Author How much taller? If it were 15", what would the depth have to be to keep it around the same size in cubes?
July 10, 200520 yr http://www.carstereo.com/help/Articles.cfm?id=45thier you go, u can play wt numbers all day.
July 10, 200520 yr there is nothign wrong with re subs..lol....it's jsut the "cult bandwagon" of followers, most of which have never owned/heard an re sub. it's also the fact that if u say one bad thing about an re sub, even david is liable to come down on ya. anyway...just what size enclosure,net, are u shooting for? u have 5.2 cubes now without sub/port displacement...u could get away with 2 cubes net and be fine. (4 cubes total) at least IME, most 12's (including the vaunted xxx) work great in 2 cubes tuned to 34hz...wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
July 10, 200520 yr Admin from the SE installs I have seen, for the most part you don't always need a ton of air space to get clean strong sound out of them, they are fairly efficent, but I have not owned one yet, a few RE RE's but anyway the single 12SX would also be a great option, there are a few people with explorers running the single sx 12 in a slot port and loving the output of that thing, MEXI on fordexplorer.net might have a good design for a single SX 12, if not I could see if I can dig through my files if I have one, but I like the dual 12 SE idea,
July 10, 200520 yr Author Denim: Mexi is the one who gave me the designs for the box I said earlier. I'm shooting for really nice SQ but being able to get loud at the same time..... I asked Mexi about the single 12" SX and he couldn't find his box deminsions for it...
July 10, 200520 yr Admin Denim: Mexi is the one who gave me the designs for the box I said earlier. I'm shooting for really nice SQ but being able to get loud at the same time..... I asked Mexi about the single 12" SX and he couldn't find his box deminsions for it...did you look on the website for what they reccomend?
July 10, 200520 yr there is nothign wrong with re subs..lol....it's jsut the "cult bandwagon" of followers, most of which have never owned/heard an re sub. it's also the fact that if u say one bad thing about an re sub, even david is liable to come down on ya. anyway...just what size enclosure,net, are u shooting for? u have 5.2 cubes now without sub/port displacement...u could get away with 2 cubes net and be fine. (4 cubes total) at least IME, most 12's (including the vaunted xxx) work great in 2 cubes tuned to 34hz...wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thats plenty. I have my friends in 2.5^[email protected] believe
July 10, 200520 yr Author RE Recommends 2 cubic feet ported for the SE. So I could do 4 cubes for both... I'll have to punch some numbers into that calculator...
July 14, 200520 yr repwnzjoo foos...lolIMO you should make it exactly 18" tall and compensate for the depth...looks clean that way with no step down from the seat......
July 14, 200520 yr Author But then if I put stuff on top of the box, it would end up in the back seat. But if it was a lip there, it would keep it in the back. Thats at least what I was thinking... Maybe I'm crazy.
July 14, 200520 yr Author I've also been thinking and talking with a few people who have owned SEs or SX, and I think I'm leaning more towards the 12" SX now. If that isn't loud enough, I could always add another one and still keep the box size around 4-5 cubes. Opinions?
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