Hey man! I wont be suprized if you just ignore this all together... I have been kind of an asshole to you (SORRY) But my neaghbor has a DIGITAL AUDIO DUAL 12" BANDPASSS ENCLOSURE it has two ports per speaker... Will my JL W3V2-D4's work cool in there? I know they need 1.75 each for a ported box, but I know jack sh1t about bandpass boxes pluss these have dual ports Can you give me some info on how this will sound?

 

Dual 12 Inch Bandpass System
Model: DABP12
Spun Aluminum Venturi Ports | Durable Black/Red Carpeting | Interior Red Neon Lighting | Mirrored Interior Panels | 1/2 Inch Plexiglas Window | Dual 12 Inch Molded | 50 oz. Strontium Magnet | Power Handling: 800 Watts RMS | Sensitivity: 103dB | Frequency Response: 25Hz - 140Hz | Impedance 4-Ohm Stereo | Dimensions: 14.5 Inch (H) x 30.5 Inch (W) x 15 Inch (D), High Quality MDF Construction | 2 Inch 4 Layer ASV Voice Coil | Bumped Back Plate | Extended & Vented Pole Piece | Gold Binding Post Terminals


This is the one! Its at www.digitalaudioinc.com the thing is my friend wigged out (jesus trip) and punched holes through his subwoofers with a bick pen! Screaming Rap is evil (Its the devil) Im like, those subwoofers arent evil! Well actualy they kind of suck so... but thats not the point! the point is will this box work with my subs? Im only asking you cause I know you been makin boxes for 15 years and you know your stuff

 

do you like the sound of bandpass boxes? ive never heard a W3 in one.

 

Why not try it out and let us know....

 

Well Will... I find the band pass boxes (espacialy the one im getting) to be verry BOOMY, but not so clean... From what I understand (and as bass mechanic will tell you) thats not much... A sealed box sounds cleaner, but a ported box is louder! A band pass box just hits super hard! But thw W3's are realy clean sounding subs, so it should hit realy hard and sound fairly clean if its a big enoughf space Im not sure, because I know the area between the subs is important to. I know for a damn fact the ported side isnt 1.75 cubic feet thoe! So if te mid section were the speakers faces are makes up for the rest it will be buitifull!

 

i cant tell you off hand the space requirements for a JL sub in a bandpass but i will say that of the Band pass boxes i have made with JL subs they dont work too good. the reason is because they have too small of a voice coil. i have easily burnt up JL subs running less than 1/2 their rated power.
this is the reason my subs have 3" diameter voice coils and will handel 1000 watts . i had to make them extra beefy to handel the BP box.

and for what it is worth anything you put in a premade bandpass box is going to sound like total crap. in order to even hope to have anything that resembles good sound quality the sub and box have to be specifically designed for each other. but when you match them up in this way. the results are unlike anything you have ever heard.

for WIW the box you asked about i can guarentee you sounds like crap. i know this because the ports are not even close to being tuned right. i have been doing this long enough to know just by looking at them ther diameter and length is not even close to tuned right. also it seems they use the exact same ports in all their boxes which would lead me to belive the same holds true for all their boxes. including the ported ones.
it really sucks because a ciustomer will put a good sub in there and after they hear it they will likely belive the subs are crap because they sound horrible when in fact they might actually be a good sub in a bad box.
remember this about caraudio, dont buy with your eyes, buy with your ears!

 

hMM.. THANX BASS! Im gona go ahead and try it anyway! If it sounds like crap I wont buy it... But if it sounds good---well any way Im gonna give it a shot. Remember I got a 5 year so if I blow them its no biggie btw bass how much are those subs? And how BIG are the voice coils? the ones on my subs are 2.25 inches...

 

Hmm! yours are 3" voice coils! does the 1/3 inch realy make that huge a differance? mine are also 4 layer.... or have they switched them up since the old W3's?

 

not 1/3"

3/4"

 

yes mine are 3" and it does make a big difference also i have a fill 2 inches of cone travel. also the length of the coil also helps to dissapate heat. JL rates their subs very well. they will take just about exactly what they rate them for.

my subs ratings are for the power mouse boxes i use them in. the wattage rating would be less in a sealed or ported box of average size. this is because my subs are effient and dont need all that many watts to reach full cone excursion in a larger box. for example my 10" subs are playing in .4 cu ft for the sealed side of the BP box. but im still hitting usable frequencies of 27 hz and still audiable bass output of 10 hz the reason i use 3" coils is because any other coil would fry in a box this small.

i have not read much on the new JL V2 subs yet but i was told or i heard someplace they were basically the same as the older versions but they just look a little different. i cant say for sure i could be wrong.
i think ill go to their website and gather some info so i have a better opinion on the subject.