Time to kill off some spare parts. I bought an 8" Dayton a few years ago and never got around to utilizing it. So I'm using some leftover 1/2" MDF and a 20 year old 100W plate amp I ripped out of a 12" Pioneer sub before I chucked it. This will be a little sub to put in my garage along with some AWESOME active Tapco (Mackie) S5 studio monitors I picked up on Craigslist for $100/pr. Man those things sound incredibly good, but they're ported and tuned to ~60Hz. Pretty much zero deep bass.
While I waited for my EP4000 to arrive in the mail, I used this plate amp to run my first big 'ol LLT. I found with REW that the amp has an HPF @ ~25Hz, so that's perfect (the Pioneer I ripped it out of was ported).
Since I'm using 1/2" MDF, the plan is to compensate with lots of bracing. Volume is going to be somewhere ~60 liters (~2.1 ft^3). It's going to be quick-n-dirty construction all the way. I don't want to get involved in another monster project like my 9 month dual LLT build last year.
Even though this thing is going to be tiny by HT standards, I can still see it pushing ~100lbs total weight. I haven't box-noted it, but I'm sure there will be some in-band resonances due to the high aspect ratio. So I'll put some polyfill in the upper two cavities.
Maybe this thread belongs in a more music oriented forum, but HTS is where I live. Not every build has to be based on an 18" 50mm-xmax sheetrock buster, right?
I'll probably start cutting wood a few weeks from now. It'll probably take a month or two to get it done. No rush.
PartsExpress Cyber-Monday had an 8" TC Sounds for $100. Was I tempted? Oh yeh! But I vowed to keep this $0.
** Edited this post to fix a broken image link. This Sketchup rendering is *after* I took Bill's advice to raise the driver up off the floor.
While I waited for my EP4000 to arrive in the mail, I used this plate amp to run my first big 'ol LLT. I found with REW that the amp has an HPF @ ~25Hz, so that's perfect (the Pioneer I ripped it out of was ported).
Since I'm using 1/2" MDF, the plan is to compensate with lots of bracing. Volume is going to be somewhere ~60 liters (~2.1 ft^3). It's going to be quick-n-dirty construction all the way. I don't want to get involved in another monster project like my 9 month dual LLT build last year.
Even though this thing is going to be tiny by HT standards, I can still see it pushing ~100lbs total weight. I haven't box-noted it, but I'm sure there will be some in-band resonances due to the high aspect ratio. So I'll put some polyfill in the upper two cavities.
Maybe this thread belongs in a more music oriented forum, but HTS is where I live. Not every build has to be based on an 18" 50mm-xmax sheetrock buster, right?
I'll probably start cutting wood a few weeks from now. It'll probably take a month or two to get it done. No rush.
PartsExpress Cyber-Monday had an 8" TC Sounds for $100. Was I tempted? Oh yeh! But I vowed to keep this $0.
** Edited this post to fix a broken image link. This Sketchup rendering is *after* I took Bill's advice to raise the driver up off the floor.

