SEALED enclosures subs?

[///M5 2,833]

I think maybe the sealed box had a peak in the mid 40's and he misses it now. I've personally had that happen, where you get used to the giant boost at some freqs and then get something else and feel like somethings missing. A differently (not necessarily "better") designed box can give you what you want.

If he asked the designer for a crazy ground pounder then the designer did his job right?

That's pretty much hitting the nail on the head. The builder was doing his job and built me a definite ground pounder cuz that's what everyone was telling me to do. "If you think it sounds good sealed, wait till you go ported" but after about a week I realized it wasn't geared toward my taste or playlists. I enjoy low lows like anybody else, but it came at the expense of bass that hit hard, and it produced stuff that seemed a bit muddy for me... That's when i started missing the old setup

I really hate the new trend of everyone recommending seriously low tuning. For most listeners it is a bad idea.

Interesting, I surely didn't get that out of your first post. What do you think the sealed box will do better?

Well aside from output.. What won't it? This was one of my 1st ported enclosures and it was LOUD... but not as accurate throughout the frequency range as I'd hoped. It definitely had a huge gain of probably more than 3db around the tuned frequency, but it was so much I couldn't just EQ it out and still have it sound good.. Well at least to me.

Huh? I asked you that question since you are drawing the wrong conclusions. Had you said some about group delay and explained how you could hear it, then fine or if you preferred the shallow natural HP of the box on the sealed enclosure, or if you were unloading the driver below tuning I'd accept your answer. Other than those points though the ONLY benefit that the sealed enclosure has is that it is pretty idiot proof to "design" and build one.

I see this as a classic case of either your designer not knowing what he was doing or doing what he thought you wanted by asking questions and not getting the real need out of you. It isn't trivial to do, but by no means whatsover are any of your problems or concerns with your current system related to a ported enclosure.

**it may be the Skar's. I've never held one, looked at one, modeled one (in a non-BP) and nor will I. Not sure what they were designed for how/why but I know enough about Kevin that I am flat out not interested in them. Not saying its them or its not them, just clarifying that they may also have been a poor choice for your enclosure or they could have been fine. At the same time, I'll tell you the time I did model them in a BP someone had that wanted a "ground pounder" the response was terrible. Of course the magic response versus output trade-off wasn't at all understood by that person but his goals were such he didn't care anyways.