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Old Apr 4, 2007 | 06:11 PM
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are you going to have 2 subs in one box?
if you are then have a wall in the box so the wave of one sub does not get to the other

i think i would run one sub and when i had the $ i would get a set of subs
Old Apr 4, 2007 | 06:48 PM
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If you were buying subs, I think everyone would say don't mix 'em up, but since you already own them, (I'm assuming that you can't afford to "do it right") then go for it.
If the boxes are sealed (very forgiving design if it's wrong) then your bass will already be relatively poor anyways (again assuming you don't have the power to push them to their limits).

Keep the woofers as close together as you can, to maximize the extra gain from the coupling effect, and don't worry about details like phase, or diferent roll-offs.

You car and install will likely be the weakest link (again assumtion) and once it's all together and broken in, you can visit your local shops, and get them to try some of their "good" subs in your system, and let your own ears decide if it's time to trade up.

Everything is relative, and so-so bass is infinitely better than no bass.
Old Apr 4, 2007 | 07:14 PM
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this thread makes me want to smoke PCP.....






put them in the same air space with no divider.......
Old Apr 4, 2007 | 07:46 PM
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I didn't have any, so I snorted Ajax. ^^^^ That makes way more sense.

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Old Apr 4, 2007 | 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Starterwiz
I didn't have any, so I snorted Ajax. ^^^^ That makes way more sense.
i use up all my ajax so i'm seating on a 2L pop with alot of dryice in it a bit of H2O in it and the cap on it and i hope the LSD AND THE PCP

i would do one subs
Old Apr 4, 2007 | 11:46 PM
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yeah...me too....I'd sell the lesser sub, and buy a good ported box.
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 12:42 AM
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The only way you would be able to mix those subs is if you played them separately, looking at the response curves on an RTA. If the response curves, sensitivity and frequency range are the same you should be safe. But I doubt that will happen (hell, it's rare with two IDENTICAL subs)
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 09:41 AM
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as long as they dont share the same chamber in a box nothing should go "wrong"

how it sounds is a completely different matter
Old Apr 5, 2007 | 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Twenty2
as long as they dont share the same chamber in a box nothing should go "wrong"
As Haunz mentioned, if he's going to use both drivers he SHOULD put them in a common chamber.

However, using these subs together is a bad idea anyway.

The cancellation djflash is talking about will not result from positioning, but rather the differences in phase response.

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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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Here we are up to post number 30 for this thread.

Wouldn't it have been a lot easier if post # 2 said "NO" and that was the end of it?



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