whats the differnce?
 

between a ported sub box and a sealed sub box

damn man just ask all your questions in one thread.. at this rate your going to take up the whole page

A ported sub box has holes in it, and a sealed one doesn't.

Well...
 

It comes on what you want. If you want sound quality and want to keep your speakers longer then you want a sealed box.

If your looking to be loud as hell and dont really care about sound quality then a ported box would be better. The thing with a ported box is that the air pressure after a while starts to wear out the subs quicker and the quality of sound (which is lower already) will decrease dramatcially after a couple of months.

There are speakers made for ported boxes and just being loud but have pretty good quality. A company i think is one of the top ones is Kickers with their Solo Barics L5 or L7

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Sealed boxes "hit" cleaner, for music like alternative and rock. The lack of airflow makes them recover faster and not have as much Variation in movement

Ported will have a little wider range, still hit very strong, but they warble better for the low sustained db of music such as rap. Depends on what you listen to... depends on speaker size/amps/and ohms also.

A properly tuned Ported Box will fart out a freq an octave lower than the -6db to -12db mark on the frequency responce to give the feeling that it drops lower than it does.

While it DOES produce lower bass hits, those lower bass hits are a result of the port and not a part of the origional recording.

The port is nothing more than a hemholtz resinator. think of blowing across a bottle and getting that pipe noise.

That is exactly what a ported sub does, just a lot lower.

Ported will usually fart a bit louder than sealed on watt per watt comparison, but sealed will produce smoother cleaner bass.

If yer on a budget, go ported.

If you dont mind spending a little extra for higher quality, nothing beats sealed.


And whatever you do, for the love of god NEVER get the bandpass crap. All they do is fart out one bass note. they suck.

Get a sealed box, or you can get a ported box that has the ability to seal the ports off (Q-logic).

Sealed boxes are much crisper and have a much better sound IMO.

Wow.... i wouldnt have thought that would work.

Sealed subwoofers vs ported subwoofers when optimally set up will not have the same cubic volume in the box. Im trying to remember, but i believe sealed boxes must have a larger internal volume than ported right?
or maybe im the other way around.

but i do know that all things being equal, the driver requires a different sized enclosure when going ported vs sealed.

if its sealed and you have powerfull subs... and the box is small (mustangs have small trunks so its gonna be rather small)

then theres a possibility to blow the subs out...

so you may want to vent them out...

I have 1000watt subs and I am told to vent them out... but I don't play music with the bass way up and I don't listen to rap and pop or anyother music with ALOT of bass

Come on now Greg.. I know you crank teh volume knob hard in Sweet Home Alabama when Ronnie says "turn it up".

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yeh... but the bass isn't all the way up... too much bass will give me a headache...

but I can make a parking garage shake... lol