It hasn't been the most active week on the board & the Mach Audio presale is enticing to me, but I want to be sure that if I purchase one of those subs that it's the best for me in the long run.
Here's my scenario. I'll live in a smallish apartment until May of 2008, then move out hopefully to a little bigger place and eventually (a year or two later? dunno) have my own house. This sub is meant to grow with me . For the apartment, I'm planning on building it into a coffee table. It will have 4, maybe 5 cubes. After that it, will grow. Not sure when or how big, but eventually I'd like an ideal ported enclosure. So basically, I'm going to buy a huge driver now, understand 5 cubes isn't optimal, but then still have it around to unleash later.
Here's my apartment:
So here's the comparison I'm looking at. I included two 15" models, but would really rather have an 18 for down the road.
So there's that...what would be my coffee table sub. Some annoyingly high QTC numbers though, right?
Here they are ported..I did these enclosures pretty quckly, so don't think they're optimized at all. The boxes are 300-500 liters & tunings from 15-20ish hz.
As far as I'm concerned, this ported graph rules out the Elemental Designs model..I was cool with the polycone, but its lack of the lowest of low end is no fun. The Mach5 is just middle of the pack (power handling) and still seems like a great value, but will I later wish that I had the extra output & excursion?
Basically, I'm looking for someone more experienced to chime in and let me know what he would do. Would it be so bad to live with a high Q sub for a year? Well, maybe a couple years, it's hard to tell. I'll probably be pleased by anything right now and really want to be sure I'm happy with what I have when I go big--sonotube style. I want to Mach 5 to win because of its price, but the Fi & SS offerings seem to have some performance advantages. They both have aluminum cones too, don't they? Eh, discuss, liven this place up a little :W , let me know what to do.
Here's my scenario. I'll live in a smallish apartment until May of 2008, then move out hopefully to a little bigger place and eventually (a year or two later? dunno) have my own house. This sub is meant to grow with me . For the apartment, I'm planning on building it into a coffee table. It will have 4, maybe 5 cubes. After that it, will grow. Not sure when or how big, but eventually I'd like an ideal ported enclosure. So basically, I'm going to buy a huge driver now, understand 5 cubes isn't optimal, but then still have it around to unleash later.
Here's my apartment:
So here's the comparison I'm looking at. I included two 15" models, but would really rather have an 18 for down the road.
So there's that...what would be my coffee table sub. Some annoyingly high QTC numbers though, right?
Here they are ported..I did these enclosures pretty quckly, so don't think they're optimized at all. The boxes are 300-500 liters & tunings from 15-20ish hz.
As far as I'm concerned, this ported graph rules out the Elemental Designs model..I was cool with the polycone, but its lack of the lowest of low end is no fun. The Mach5 is just middle of the pack (power handling) and still seems like a great value, but will I later wish that I had the extra output & excursion?
Basically, I'm looking for someone more experienced to chime in and let me know what he would do. Would it be so bad to live with a high Q sub for a year? Well, maybe a couple years, it's hard to tell. I'll probably be pleased by anything right now and really want to be sure I'm happy with what I have when I go big--sonotube style. I want to Mach 5 to win because of its price, but the Fi & SS offerings seem to have some performance advantages. They both have aluminum cones too, don't they? Eh, discuss, liven this place up a little :W , let me know what to do.
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