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SteveCallas wrote:
 Of all the EP2500 mods I've read about, the best you can hope for is to bring fan noise down to ~65db at 1" from the front faceplate. That's still very loud. The Buttkicker would work very well for sealed, maybe a bit much for ported. A bridged mono Carvin HD900 would work very well for ported, with stock fan noise being ~53-55db at 1" from the front faceplate. With a resistor mod, you can bring that down even more.
Both of those recomendations are assuming you are building one sub. If you are building two, then I would go for the EP2500 because of it's cost advantage. |
I'm not sure where you are hearing that nonsense about not being able to quiet the EP2500 below a certain db level
. I have one, put a quiet fan in... 21db at 1 foot. Quiet enough? It only cost $10.
I bought the following fan for a replacement:
Panaflo FBA08A24L1A, 24V, 80x25.5, 21dB
Digikey P/N P9739-ND, $8.25
All you have to do is buy the appropraite Panaflow quiet fan and swap it out. See how with my thread here:
http://ibsubwoofers.proboards51.com/...ead=1145627913 or a resistor mod here:
http://www.cwitt.com/epfanmodification/index.html