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DelUser6216
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It's SFF.
I need help, no not me personally. I'm building a sound system for my laptop project, which is as you'd think small. In order to do that I need to build an enclosure as they are what subwoofers need, tweeters don't need them apparently. I just got a fresh specimen of small Tang Band subwoofer after I broke my last one, the 2'' W2-1625SA model. Big for the bass and small for the SFF, 'nough said.
Let's say GDFR by Flo Rida and 6 Foot 7 Foot by Lil Wayne are my experiment songs. Now for testing the subwoofer. In one situation I pressed it hard against the table by the edges (letting it resonate through the earth) and let it play, and it had good response for the deep frequencies (so it actually is capable of producing bass), but only when doing said mac-gyver. When it's held in the air from my hand there is no response. Another situation is in a crappy particle board hot glue-sealed box with no regard to proper volume size. It made sound when I held it in the air, but there was overexcursion and topping out (too small volume). The important thing here is that there is the same amount of bass from the subwoofer than my 2.1 speakers at the same volume, which means the right amount of sound.
So now what I want is to have an higher-grade airtight sealed enclosure (to conserve space, vented is too big and bass ports are complex) that at the same time fits in my laptop project. The question is what software or method should I design it in and what should I have it made from. I am thinking of 3D printing straight-up, but if anyone has experience in this and custom speaker making I can see other things. Shapeways seems like a good start.
What software/method of design? Where to get it made? I guess this is rhetorical but I like them tips man.
Also a bonus is if someone here on the forum could design it for me in a compatible manner, y'know... that'd be kinda... kinda cool... or even make it and ship it LOLNO wouldn't happen
The hole for the subwoofer has a diameter of 2 1/8'', or 54mm. The sealed volume is 0.01 ft cubed, which will tune the speaker to 236 hz. So that's 17.38 cubic inches. One set of dimensions that will fit 17.38 is an internal 2.5'' x 4.75'' x 1.5'' respectively. So you build a box around that, and build a hole 2.125'' big. Questions can be asked... humble humble if this is what someone would do. I could also utilize the help for further revisions of enclosuring, mmm.
In this image below you can see some space on the left side of my (for the time being) laptop enclosure for the subwoofer. What I said above might have to be more complex to fit the final acrylic/aluminum prototype, but meh. There's the makeshift enclosure I did.
I need help, no not me personally. I'm building a sound system for my laptop project, which is as you'd think small. In order to do that I need to build an enclosure as they are what subwoofers need, tweeters don't need them apparently. I just got a fresh specimen of small Tang Band subwoofer after I broke my last one, the 2'' W2-1625SA model. Big for the bass and small for the SFF, 'nough said.
Let's say GDFR by Flo Rida and 6 Foot 7 Foot by Lil Wayne are my experiment songs. Now for testing the subwoofer. In one situation I pressed it hard against the table by the edges (letting it resonate through the earth) and let it play, and it had good response for the deep frequencies (so it actually is capable of producing bass), but only when doing said mac-gyver. When it's held in the air from my hand there is no response. Another situation is in a crappy particle board hot glue-sealed box with no regard to proper volume size. It made sound when I held it in the air, but there was overexcursion and topping out (too small volume). The important thing here is that there is the same amount of bass from the subwoofer than my 2.1 speakers at the same volume, which means the right amount of sound.
So now what I want is to have an higher-grade airtight sealed enclosure (to conserve space, vented is too big and bass ports are complex) that at the same time fits in my laptop project. The question is what software or method should I design it in and what should I have it made from. I am thinking of 3D printing straight-up, but if anyone has experience in this and custom speaker making I can see other things. Shapeways seems like a good start.
What software/method of design? Where to get it made? I guess this is rhetorical but I like them tips man.
Also a bonus is if someone here on the forum could design it for me in a compatible manner, y'know... that'd be kinda... kinda cool... or even make it and ship it LOLNO wouldn't happen
The hole for the subwoofer has a diameter of 2 1/8'', or 54mm. The sealed volume is 0.01 ft cubed, which will tune the speaker to 236 hz. So that's 17.38 cubic inches. One set of dimensions that will fit 17.38 is an internal 2.5'' x 4.75'' x 1.5'' respectively. So you build a box around that, and build a hole 2.125'' big. Questions can be asked... humble humble if this is what someone would do. I could also utilize the help for further revisions of enclosuring, mmm.
In this image below you can see some space on the left side of my (for the time being) laptop enclosure for the subwoofer. What I said above might have to be more complex to fit the final acrylic/aluminum prototype, but meh. There's the makeshift enclosure I did.
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