1. Tools for Designing your own Subwoofer Enclosure
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

Tools for Designing your own Subwoofer Enclosure Sure you can buy a pre-fabricated woofer enclosure like your buddies, or you could build your own. Nothing sounds better than an enclosure purposely designed ...

2. Kicker Announces CompVR Loaded Sub Boxes
(News/Latest)

KICKER® CompVR® Sub Boxes Combine Legends – Reliable CompVR Woofers and KICKER Enclosures  STILLWATER, USA – KICKER® CompVR®-Loaded Sub Boxes promote attention-getting bass with two dual-sub enclosures ...

3. Building Your Own Subwoofer Enclosure
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

Building Your Own Subwoofer Enclosure For my example I'm building a small enclosure to suit a single 12" JBL subwoofer to go into a Honda Civic hatchback. Because the enclosure is only 2.4 cubic foot ...

4. SPL Tuning Your System on a dB Meter
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

... Â Don’t forget to include SPL gaining tricks in your enclosure design BEFORE testing. Like making the rear wave path 3x the distance of the front wave path if you can (sub to port + port length + ...

5. Enclosure & Port Selection, Definitive Guide
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

Enclosure & Port Selection, Definitive Guide  Should I go ported or sealed?  This gets asked a lot, and here's how you find out! You need to calculate your woofers Efficiency Bandwidth Product ...

6. The ABC 8th Order Bandpass
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

 The "ABC", Series Tuned or 8th Order enclosure is similar to 6th order bandpass enclosure, as it uses two precisely sized and tuned ported boxes, but has a third port joining both enclosures. Unlike ...

7. Enclosure Building Tools
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

Enclosure Building Tools When you want to build your own enclosure you need to use the right tools. First things first, you've got to have designed an enclosure thats suitable for your woofers & vehicle. ...

8. Getting into SPL Competition, the begginers guide.
(Technical/Theory and Physics)

... at the SPL comp. Finding the Resonant Frequency Resonant Frequency is where the sympathetic vibration of the cabin is at its loudest. You can tune the enclosure to peak at this frequency, giving a boost ...

9. Subsonic, what is it and how do I adjust it ?
(Electronics/Car Audio Electronics)

... enclosures than in ported. In a sealed box: The lower the frequency, the more excursion your subwoofer exhibits in order to play it loudly and accurately. A sealed box is tuned by enclosure ...

10. VIDEO Building a Subwoofer Enclosure
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

VIDEO Building a Subwoofer Enclosure Want to build your own custom subwoofer enclosure ? Of cource you do ! Thats why you're part of Team DecibelCar.com right ? But where do you start ? Learn the basics ...

11. Alpine Electronics Now Shipping New Type-R Thin Subwoofers
(News/Latest)

... patented concealed mount gasket system to maximize excursion levels without sacrificing the cone area. Small Enclosures and Custom Installation Applications Both subwoofers are optimized to fit into ...

12. Boyles Law, how it applies to an SPL system
(Technical/Theory and Physics)

... power as possible will provide the highest pressure if you are designing an SPL competition vehicle using sealed enclosures. What we have to consider, and what will help us to understand what happens when ...

13. Sealed vs Ported (tested)
(Technical/Theory and Physics)

... 80 Hz using CRO & DMM. DBO (subsonic + bass boost) set to 30 Hz, zero boost, using CRO & DMM. Enclosure strapped. Filler pack in wheel well and false floor installed. For sealed tests, enclosure ...

14. Enclosure matching volume to your sub size
(Technical/Theory and Physics)

Match The Right Sub(s) To the Space   Here is the method for matching the subs to the space:  Â 8" -    .7-1.0 cuft  10"-  1.2-1.5 cuft  12"-  1.7-2.5 cuft  15"-  3.0-4.5 ...

15. Car Audio on a Budget, The $1000 System
(Install/Car Audio Installation)

... provides a "combo" solution to adding a subwoofer. These will typically include a subwoofer and a suitable enclosure (box). One thing to take into consideration is the room the enclosure will take up in ...

16. Sentra Installation (step by step gallery)
(Install/Car Audio Installation)

... down|One to go. The baffles been cut and tap holes for the subs made 0|ap106.jpg|Side panels|Side panels cut and ready to go. These are made from recycled MDF (chopped up old enclosures) 0|ap107.jpg|Test ...

17. Download - Enclosure Design Software WinISD
(General/Downloadables)

Download WinISD (Enclosure Design Software) This is not ours, this software is designed and supported by LinearTeam. We are providing a mirror to download this software, get it right here.  ...

18. Construction Materials, get what you need cheap
(General/Everything Else !)

... hole & port whole cut-outs too! They are perfect for the task. Might not look pretty, but who's looking inside the enclosure? Cheap MDF: "Outside panels" are good for this. They're the ones on the top ...

19. Simple Rules of Enclosure Building
(General/Everything Else !)

... 10. High density foam roofing gasket does not make a good sub gaskets 11. Angle grinders do infact work on any material known to man with the correct disk 12. Rounded edges on the enclosure will make it ...

20. Selecting construction materials for enclosures
(DIY Articles/Car Audio Do It Yourself)

The following are average densities for common construction wood sheets, 16mm thick. Density is measured in kg/m3 (LB/FT3).. obviously denser is better, as it results in less chance to flex & resonate. ...