Yup.
Like I said from the beginning of my original build thread. I would rather build these speakers the way I want to and fail then to of never of tried in the first place.
So with that all said and done here is the reasoning.
My original thoughts on these speakers was to turn CJD's 3-ways upside down and add the 2 12" Dayton High Fidelity subs underneath each speaker.
So that;s the way I built them.
After listening to them for a while they just weren't living up to the potential that I thought they had. They sounded good in the bass department but the rest was just not working. One day while driving a kid pulls up next to me and all as I could hear is that big sloppy annoying bass that seems to be in every under 20 year olds car. I looked over and said. You know, there is more to music than just bass.
Then it went off in my head. :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
Maybe with the the main part of the speakers up so high a lot of the critical information was just passing over my head. Again the bass was awesome but something was missing.
So I turned one speaker upside down and did some heavy listening as well as some a b testing. Boy, did that upside down speaker come to life. It was all there. So I quickly turned the other upside down also and what I was hearing now was waht I was expecting and even more.
But, the bass went way thin.
I figured that when I was to move into my place I am in know and I got the outriggers on I would be able to tilt slightly the top down more towards the listener and get that bass back. Nope didn't and hasn't happened.
So, if you are still with me. They will be going under the knife soon.
My original thoughts were to cut the bass bin section off and put a bottom on it and call it a day. This won't work cause I would actually cut through part of the bass driver recess. So I will cut the cabs off and probably just toss them.
This project is under an extremely low budget. In no way will I be buying another amp or crossover or anything electronic. I will however not skimp out on building the most solid cabinets(s) I can and shell out a couple bucks for internal wire. I already have the binding posts and the drivers.
Here are my ideas and we can go from there.
I have a total of 5 Dayton RS 12" High Fidelity subs. would like to use 4 if not all 5 of them. Would loke to use 2 of them(1on each side) as a mid low woofer that I can cross on my CX2310 up to 120 to even 160hz on some rare occasions for that low mid chest thump. This is not a must though if it won't work properly. The other 2 would be crossed at 80 hz for the lower rumble(ported maybe). The idea is to have 2 12's per side in their own cabinet with the top one sealed(ported maybe better that's where your thoughts come in)and the bottom one ported.
Or if that's not good I could go about it any other way. There are alot of different combinations.
I could put 1 12" per side and then have a seperate sub cabinet with 3 of the 12's.
I could put 2 in the same box per side with a front and rear firing woofer.
Give me your thoughts.
I am getting excited just thinking about building something again.
As for power. I have a Behringer ep2500 that I have been running at 2 ohms per side with no problems what so ever. If I am not wrong I could run this parallel so I can run 2 seperate and different channels from it.
That's it.
Mike
P.S. I can see you rolling your eyes at me Thomas. Could this be another 20 page thread. :rofl:
Like I said from the beginning of my original build thread. I would rather build these speakers the way I want to and fail then to of never of tried in the first place.
So with that all said and done here is the reasoning.
My original thoughts on these speakers was to turn CJD's 3-ways upside down and add the 2 12" Dayton High Fidelity subs underneath each speaker.
So that;s the way I built them.
After listening to them for a while they just weren't living up to the potential that I thought they had. They sounded good in the bass department but the rest was just not working. One day while driving a kid pulls up next to me and all as I could hear is that big sloppy annoying bass that seems to be in every under 20 year olds car. I looked over and said. You know, there is more to music than just bass.
Then it went off in my head. :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
Maybe with the the main part of the speakers up so high a lot of the critical information was just passing over my head. Again the bass was awesome but something was missing.
So I turned one speaker upside down and did some heavy listening as well as some a b testing. Boy, did that upside down speaker come to life. It was all there. So I quickly turned the other upside down also and what I was hearing now was waht I was expecting and even more.
But, the bass went way thin.
I figured that when I was to move into my place I am in know and I got the outriggers on I would be able to tilt slightly the top down more towards the listener and get that bass back. Nope didn't and hasn't happened.
So, if you are still with me. They will be going under the knife soon.
My original thoughts were to cut the bass bin section off and put a bottom on it and call it a day. This won't work cause I would actually cut through part of the bass driver recess. So I will cut the cabs off and probably just toss them.
This project is under an extremely low budget. In no way will I be buying another amp or crossover or anything electronic. I will however not skimp out on building the most solid cabinets(s) I can and shell out a couple bucks for internal wire. I already have the binding posts and the drivers.
Here are my ideas and we can go from there.
I have a total of 5 Dayton RS 12" High Fidelity subs. would like to use 4 if not all 5 of them. Would loke to use 2 of them(1on each side) as a mid low woofer that I can cross on my CX2310 up to 120 to even 160hz on some rare occasions for that low mid chest thump. This is not a must though if it won't work properly. The other 2 would be crossed at 80 hz for the lower rumble(ported maybe). The idea is to have 2 12's per side in their own cabinet with the top one sealed(ported maybe better that's where your thoughts come in)and the bottom one ported.
Or if that's not good I could go about it any other way. There are alot of different combinations.
I could put 1 12" per side and then have a seperate sub cabinet with 3 of the 12's.
I could put 2 in the same box per side with a front and rear firing woofer.
Give me your thoughts.
I am getting excited just thinking about building something again.
As for power. I have a Behringer ep2500 that I have been running at 2 ohms per side with no problems what so ever. If I am not wrong I could run this parallel so I can run 2 seperate and different channels from it.
That's it.
Mike
P.S. I can see you rolling your eyes at me Thomas. Could this be another 20 page thread. :rofl:
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