Creative Sound Solutions SDX10 Sub Kit

[Mike P.]

I had been thinking of building a small sub for the A/V system in our work out room at home. Space is limited so it had to be a small sub. The sub will be used for 50/50 HT and music, so a ported sub is what I wanted. CSS had just introduced a line of small subs with Passive Radiators, and after looking over the various kits, I choose the QUARTET10 subwoofer kit.
The kit comes with the SDX10 subwoofer, 2 APR 10 Passive Radiators, a 300 watt Bash amp, 4 cabinet spikes, and all mounting hardware. The kit is priced at $379, a quick check shows the individual parts total $475, the kit is definitely an excellent value. I ordered the kit and 4 days later it arrived. The kit arrived in two boxes.



The first box contained the amp, the chart of boost tables for changing the high pass filter, the cabinet spikes and the mounting hardware.



The second box contained the SDX10 subwoofer and the two 10 inch Passive Radiators.



The PR's were well packaged, with recessed firm foam top and bottom protectors to prevent the PR from moving around in the box.



Each PR comes with 20 45 gram tuning washers, a lock washer and a wing nut to hold them in place.



The SDX10 was equally well packaged, with the same firm foam top and bottom protectors.



Here's a couple pics of the sub. It's well built and the quality shows.




This is everything the kit comes with.

[Mike P.]

Here is some modeling of the sub. The recommended cabinet size is a cube with an external measurement of 18 inches, so the net volume will be 66 liters or 2.3 cu.ft. Adding 270 grams of mass to each PR will tune the cabinet to 22 hz.


Here is the SDX10 cone excursion with 300 watts input, a high pass filter at 20.4 hz, and 1 db of boost form 31 to 35 hz.


Here is the Passive Radiator excursion.

[Mike P.]

The next month or so will be busy for me with work and family commitments, hopefully by the middle of March I'll be able to get this project going. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

[salvasol]

Congratulations!!! ...

I'll be waiting for your new build thread

[Canadian_Dude]

What are the box dimensions you are going to use?

[Mike P.]

I haven't got that far yet. I still need to find out the displacement of the sub and PR's.

[Rodny Alvarez]

I have the same sub in my truck, tuned to 28hz with 300 watts and it rocks, by far the best sounding sub that I have heard, really nice subs, I'm thinking about doing a 15" for my living room.

Cant wait to see the results!!

Good luck!

[Mike P.]

Finally got some work done on the sub. Dimensions worked out to a 18 inch cube. Here's a couple pics of the box. All cut outs done and Hurricane nuts installed.




I mounted all the components so I could figure out the bracing.



I used hot glue around he perimeter of the Hurricane nuts to ensure they don't come loose. Although I've never used it, Gorilla glue works well also from what I've read.


Some general pics of the sub.

[Rodny Alvarez]

Nice!!!

That looks like a nice set up, cant wait to hear your thoughts!!

[tcarcio]

Looks great.....