so I cooked one of my subs, but the other one still works. i've got them in a sealed box with two separate compartments, but they aren't completely sealed from one another. there's about an inch gap that runs the whole height of the box in the baffle. I don't want to toast my other sub, so do I a) leave the dead sub in the box, keeping the box sealed, or b) take the dead one out, leaving an unmeasured and possibly completely out of spec "port."
I'm pretty sure if i left the dead one in it'll be pulling in the opposite direction of the working sub, thus cancelling out a lot of my output (and possibly getting me to overdrive the good one), but if i take the dead one out, the "port" might be so out of whack that it wrecks the sub anyway.

what do ya think?

 

get a new sub, or repair the broken one, or seal off the good side from the bad side , or put the single one in a new box, or the cheapest and works just as well as the others is to block off the blown sub's mounting hole with a 3/4 mdf plate and add styrofoam blocks inside the unused portion to take up most or all of the the volume...this will allow the box to be the right volume for the single sub (just ensure that you seal it properly and take up most of the volume).

 

hmm.. never thought of that. thanks.