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The small wire had nothing to do with this issue. If the wire was too small it would have melted, not the terminal. The terminal just wasn't up to snuff.

Breaking a sub in is a myth. If that sub had a problem it would have shown itself whether you cranked it the first day or the 100th day. Pull it out and check the sub.

I see thanks for clarifying that. I heard in some forums that you should never have your boost higher than the gain but I thought it was weird. Anyways, does that mean I should set my bass boost to 0 (absolutely to the left)? I can't see where the bass boost position has anything to do with the gain position. What was their reasoning?

The two relative to each other doesn't matter. I just wouldn't use the bass boost at all. It just boosts the output of a small band of frequencies, giving you a peak in the response that won't sound good and can make you enter clipping sooner.

Had my first first kiss in about 4 years last night. /sappy romantic junk.

How did you come up with your port dimensions and box size? I get that the box is 2.58 cubes before any displacements. But only a 9" port is way too short to be tuned to 28 hz. A 1.5" wide x 12.5" tall port would have to be about 36" long to be tuned to 28 hz, and your net volume would drop to 1.8 cubes.

How big is the box and what is it tuned to

You are correct, running double RMS doesn't usually make much sense, even to "knowledgeable installers'" (actual power applied to speakers. It's perfectly ok to buy a larger amplifier just to have some headroom, but it doesn't mean you have to use all of the amp's capability). But don't look squarely at the RMS figure of a speaker to figure out how loud it gets. Efficiency and sensitivity of a speaker play as large or more of a role in how loud a speaker will get than the power handling. Say you have two speakers, one rated at 88 db and 100 watts RMS and another rated 93 db but only 50 watts RMS. Theoretically a speaker realizes a 3 db increase with a doubling of power. So with 2 watts going to the first speaker, it will be at 91 db, still 2 db lower than the more efficient speaker receiving only 1 watt. Once you carry that power up the RMS, the second speaker is still 2 db louder with 50 watts than the first is with 100.

Dang I was too slow, too slow

Too cold, too cold

TV in corner is icky for good speaker placement.

Done gotten.

Saw a pretty funny thing today. Guy on a motorcycle with his dog in the sidecar.

Are you telling me that you like grey's anatomy? Haha. At first her side of the deal was to clean her cat's litter box for a week. I balked at that and she changed it. Never watched it, but I don't care what it is, I'm sure I could sit through 30 minutes of it and seems it would be worth it. Well, I won. HORSE to, well, nothing. Ha. I'm getting Lasagna at some point, perhaps tomorrow. I told her next time we played I'd let her have the whole stable (as in give her multiple HORSEs). Haha.

If you want 4 cubes after all displacements, plug in 4 cubes for the enclosure volume. Then plug in your port info and calculate port displacement with the equated length. Add that to your net volume. Adjust either port size or net volume in the equation until the work out. You want 4 cubes. Plug that into the equation. You want a 40 sq. inch port and a tuning of 32 hz. Plug those in. It gives you port length of 21". Calculate port displacement. With a 10" x 4" slot port, you'd take 10" x 4.75 (adding in port wall) x 21" for a port displacement of 0.57 cubes. 4 + 0.57 + 0.38 (sub displacement) is only 4.95 cubes. So increase the net volume in the equation to, say 4.5 cubes. Recalculate. 4.5 cube box w. 40 sq. inches tuned to 32 hz gives length of 18". Recalculate displacement. 10 x 4.75 x 18 = 0.49 cubes. 4.5 + 0.49 + 0.38 = 5.37 cubes total. Getting closer. Rinse and repeat until you get the correct volume.

Good deal.

Like mine?

My brother just bought a Panasonic 42" plasma TV but it only has a digital audio output and his receiver doesn't have a digital input. Do they make adapters for this? I checked PE right quick but couldn't find anything. I asked what outputs are on his cable box but he hasn't gotten back to me yet. If it's like the non-HD cable box I had, it's just a coaxial output and maybe a digital audio out, not sure on that. I told him he just needs to upgrade his receiver since it is like 8 years old. Anybody have one for relatively cheap? He'll probably just do 4.0, maybe 5.0 or 5.1 if I help him along. Don't think he has a center channel or sub right now. Maybe I could get him a new receiver for Xmas.

Are you telling me that you like grey's anatomy? Haha. At first her side of the deal was to clean her cat's litter box for a week. I balked at that and she changed it. Never watched it, but I don't care what it is, I'm sure I could sit through 30 minutes of it and seems it would be worth it. My ex made me watch it a few times. It's not terrible. But not something I'd choose to watch.

Well he did say it's tuned to 49 hz and is talking about SPL scores, so..... Have you tried facing the port to the rear?

Yeah that's too small of a space, only about 1.7 cubes before displacements. If you already have the 12" you'll want to go sealed. If you really want to go ported, step down to the 10".

LMFAO 12.8 cuft box is like a coffin. I'd try a sono-tube box for home project. MUCH lighter, no flex if you have thick top and bottomm, and you can finish it to look like a large pillar in the corner of your room. the only up-side is that it doesn't take a crazy deep port to tune 12ft down low. I guess you haven't read the whole thread, the sonotube idea has already been presented and dismissed.

Post your wants/needs in here and I bet somebody can whip something up.

Are you telling me that you like grey's anatomy? Haha. At first her side of the deal was to clean her cat's litter box for a week. I balked at that and she changed it.

Or do that. That thought slipped my mind.