Posted July 20, 20169 yr Popular Post Can someone check my work, to verify I am gaining maximum beneficial value from the bracing? From my understanding the bracing has two primary functions, other than structural support. To keep two panels from having the same resonate frequency, and to break up standing waves. Is there any adjustments I should make? Will I benefit from routeing the bracing edges round? Should I add a few randomly placed triangle braces? Remove the diagonals from the center brace? This is my first enclosure with matrix bracing, so I could have a big red flag in there and wouldn't know it. The enclosure is built for two SSA 15" Icons sealed, running 2000 watts total. The final volume is to the maximum sealed recommendation of 2.5 cu. ft. per sub, for a net of 5 cu. foot. The enclosure will be stuffed with 5 pounds of poly fill, to smooth out the response curve.
July 20, 20169 yr The opinion of others may vary but it looks like a beautifully constructed enclosure to me. That bracing should not be any issue at all with this being a sealed enclosure. I have seen comments where that style of bracing can affect output in a ported enclosure, which if true could possibly be an issue if one was intending to use it for SPL competition, but I can't imagine how it would be any issue ever in a sealed enclosure.
July 20, 20169 yr Author Thanks for the reply Alton. I failed to mention my goal is SQ, very accurate and crispy.
July 20, 20169 yr Author Thanks for the kind words Randy. Life got crazy busy there for a minute. It feels good to be back.
July 20, 20169 yr Nice enclosure man, maybe that's why my sealed enclosure sucked because i didnt add any bracing.
July 20, 20169 yr Glad to see you back on! Gorgeous work. Only thing I might add (which isn't nearly as relevant on a sub) would be to space them unevenly. General goal is to have no symmetry, but that is overkill. I of course tend to like overkill.
July 20, 20169 yr Author 25 minutes ago, ///M5 said: Glad to see you back on! Gorgeous work. Only thing I might add (which isn't nearly as relevant on a sub) would be to space them unevenly. General goal is to have no symmetry, but that is overkill. I of course tend to like overkill. I gathered the no symmetry, the second time around reading the cookbook. After cutting the braces. Doh. Will adding a few randomly placed triangle braces be a good bandaid at this point. Anything worth doing is worth doing right my opinion.
July 20, 20169 yr Author Yeah, I think I will scratch any extra bracing. I can there would be minimal at best gained and lots of volume lost. Thanks again everyone!
July 20, 20169 yr 4 hours ago, j-roadtatts said: Thanks for the kind words Randy. Life got crazy busy there for a minute. It feels good to be back. Been gone a while myself. Job changes, vehicle changes, so on and so forth. You know how it is. All my audio equipment is in boxes under my bed at the moment waiting to go into my 94 Chevy I just acquired recently. Hope to get started soon. Nothing special, just a good clean sounding setup. Again, nice enclosure brother. Can't wait to see it finished!!!
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