Bandpass to sealed box
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Bandpass to sealed box
Those who have made this switch, what kind of sound difference will it be? Right now I have a 10" Boss Audio sub in a ported bandpass box to a sealed box with a 10" Rockford Fosgate sub. I'm using a 2 channel Rockford Fosgate amp that I used for the bandpass and will still use for the sealed box. The bandpass box is LOUD and you can hear me coming a mile away. I don't have to turn the volume up very high to get a lot of sound out of it. So what can I expect when making this switch?
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It depends entirely on the boxes. The engineering can be done to either kind of box, so that it sounds almost exactly identical to the other. The stereotype is that a sealed box may not play as loud but it will go deeper, but YMMV
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This might help - https://www.crutchfield.com/S-GX76cJ...omparison.html
In regards to the bandpass box:
a ported enclosure is generally 2-3 decibels louder than a sealed box of the same size. The down side — the ported box isn't as accurate as a sealed box, and it won't play as low in the frequency range.
In regards to the bandpass box:
There's a little bit of overhang, a subtle resonance that you hear on occasion — it's not a big problem, but you don't get the same "stop-on-a-dime" sound that the sealed box delivers. The bass is so heavy that it tends to overwhelm the subtleties in your music.