Well I got 'er all finished. I ended up going 3.4 ^ft. to allow for bracing and sub/port displacement. The port is 4"x13" tuning it to 26-27 Hz.

Holy crap...I've never heard a 20hz test tone so incredibly powerful before. Brought tears to my eyes...quite literally. After listening to the IASCA SQ disc I was very impressed at how well the sub performs for all styles of music.

Thaks Paul and Ross for the help. I believe I'm all turned around on the ported box idea now. To HELL with those confounded sealed boxes...TO HELL with them I say!

 

Glad to see you've changed your mind on ported box's.
Using a sealed enclosure and never trying a ported design is like going your whole life using 1-ply toilet paper and not knowing about 2-ply.

 

nice

 

I ended up going with the IDmax. I now know that a ported box, if built right, can produce sound quality equal to, if not better than, a sealed box, so don't think twice about it.

To quote a wise man: "Blow your mind - port your box.."

 

Sure don't miss those rip-throughs.

 

Glad to hear you got it done, man! Yeah vented boxes can be really sweet when done right......

 

I was wondering how long it was going to take you to spark up about that. [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]