Quick Polk Ht Build

[dmanson]

4 15s in your house would be sick! I dont even know when Im going to listen to this... My 3" computer sub already can be heard in my parents room.

More just for fun.

not to hijack the thread but i like to dj from time to time and when i'm working on my truck in my 2 car garage i like my system in the garage to be loud too. my pioneer receiver is 110 rms X 4, so it should get pretty loud in the garage. back to the thread.

[galacticmonkey]

All finished. Heres pics and a video.

[Xplorer]

I have a question, how exactly do you run car subs inside your house? I'm upgrading my car soon, and I'm going to have a 10" L7 laying around

[Torres]

i like how the box looks like a big rock

[galacticmonkey]

Well usually you gotta get a HT reciever, and you run it off a plate amp.

But Im ghetto, so they run off a 350watt max JVC boom box.

[LSN2meBoom916]

I am doing it the same "ghetto" way, which is fine as long as you're careful.

Most Home Audio recievers, be it a Boom box/shelf system or Higher end rack mount component are rated between 6-12ohms, not usually meant to be driven into lower impedences like car audio.

I have an AIWA shelf system that is 300watts total for all the speakers. The nice part about a shelf system is it's all self contained and "all in one" rather than needing a radio reciever, cd player, tape decks, amp for highs, amp for lows, etc. The downside is just like a car audio setup-when they combine components (i.e. tuner/reciever+power+cd player) the quality of each is sacrificed.

That said-the easiest way to go about it is find yourself as high-powered shelf setup/boom box that you can, and make sure it has line level outputs to its speakers. Line level just means raw wire for pos+ and neg- so you can run you own speakers w/ out having to dissect the Home audio style RCA's.

On my Aiwa it has rca's for the mids and surround speakers so I just left those as they were and the mids get plenty loud but the crappy 7" subs that are built into the 3 way boom box speakers suck balls so I ran the wires for those to a pair of Kicker Comp VR 12's. Normally those 2 sub channels are 80watts rms at 6-ohms each, but since I have them hooked up to 4 ohm subs (one per channel), each sub should be seeing about 100rms each and they get SILLY loud for only 2 12's. They are however in the confined space of my bedroom.

Hope that helped how this kinda setup runs.

Nice lookin box Gmonk.

Gotta love that fleckstone finish.

[galacticmonkey]

Yeah, I was kinda worried about the ohm load, but if it stops working, I dont really care... Ive had it for probably 4 years or so.

[dmanson]

i'm getting four 8 ohm 12s once i make it back and build two separate enclosure in my garage, seeing i have a pioneer receiver that'll do 110rms X 4 it should get very loud.

[galacticmonkey]

Thinking about porting it.....

Its sitting with the subs facing the wall in a corner next to my desk, with the subs stacked vertically. Think it would sound good with a 6" flared port on the top facing up? The box is about 3.4 cubes sealed right now. 30"x16"x16".

The box is pretty peaky, and Id like it to be louder on all a wider range of frequencies.... Any way to go about that?

For a 6" port Id only need 14" of port to get to 35hz.

Any thoughts?

[Guest Dylan Dude]

what's the song in the vid? Nice setup, I would like to do that in my room. Oh and just so you know, it's not really home theater if you only use it on music.