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SteveCallas wrote:
 Exactly. As much as you may enjoy your current subs, two of those SS RL-p18s will just completely dominate them in accuracy (linearity, distortion, headroom) over the entire subwoofer range, not just below 30hz. Using them just below 30hz would be an enormous waste of potential in my opinion, and I doubt I would be able to sleep well at nights, let alone you 
As for the subs, I don't see much benefit tuning lower than 10hz, and even that is extremely low (I'd personally shoot for a wee bit higher tuning myself). The best bet would be something like Rodny's project, enclosing an adjacent space, because these drivers like a LOT of volume for a LLT. Let me know if that is an option or if these have to be discrete boxes o tubes within the room. |
I won't have a sealable adjacent room in my application, so an IB is out. From the product page
http://www.soundsplinter.com/rlp18_s...formation.html it looks like they are recommending an 18 cft vented box for a tuning freq of 14 Hz. I am going to be using the second row seating plinth for the enclosure, and it will span the room from side to side, so I can get that kind of volume, and more if ideal. I suppose if I want to tune it to 10 Hz then I need a bigger enclosure. Now that SS has posted all the specs, I guess I can use one of those enclosure calculators.
I suppose I could also just put all my rack gear in the plinth, and build a stage in the front that could contain the mondo sub, and then I wouldn't mind letting it run clear up to 80 Hz like you say. I could even use a pair of the 18's down low on each side of the stage...
Then I could sell the PSW-1200's and use that for financing the SS stuff. Hmm...