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I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!

I just received shipments of 4 subwoofer drivers and they will not be going into a distributed bass array. 

I'm replacing my left and right speaker stands with powering subwoofers with 2 subwoofer drivers each.  I call them powering because they will be powering the 2-way monitors that will sit on top.  Here's a beauty shot of the insides.

The amp has all the DSP power I could need to produce perfect speaker measurements.   I wonder if JA at Stereophile would wax poetically if I priced them high enough?? laugh

1744240613802.pngeriksquires · 2025-04-09 11:17 pm at 11:17 PM

erik_squires

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devinplombier
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@erik_squires 

Are your cabinets partitioned horizontally so that each driver has its own sealed enclosure? It’s hard to tell from the drawing you posted.

Also, what is the rationale for the recessed amp housing compartment and wouldn’t it be preferable, generally speaking, to leave the inside back panel of the enclosure flat? That could be done simply by knocking out the amp housing, which would also provide opportunities to implement better ventilation for your amps, which will need a lot of it 🙂

Just interested in your thought process. Thanks! 

 

devinplombier
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@erik_squires 

Reason I mentioned partitioning the enclosure is, Arnie Nudell did this way back when while tweaking the crossovers to feed each woofer a slightly different signal.

I won’t pretend to understand the fine points, but I can attest that the resulting bass sounds glorious.

That B&W bracing job sure looks fine... It’s not that hard to do actually, draw it in CAD and take the dxf down to your local CNC shop, but I'm gonna guess you know that 🙂

 

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