placing amp inside the sub box

[Ben Building]

Put it in the port. lol

Dont see any problem. Just when building the box, account for the space being taken up.

People strap their amps to boxes all the time. Just throw rubber spacers in between the amps...

If you put an amplifier in your port, then you will destroy any predictable flow characteristics for that port.

Translation: your enclosure may sound ok, but it will almost certainly perform worse than expected with an amplifier clogging its port.

[Ben Building]

Amps are square on the ends, which means that fluids, like air, will create turbulence on the low pressure side while trying to flow around it.

Turbulence is the opposite of what you want inside of a port because it is so chaotic. With a turbulence-inducing shape inside, the port will behave like a much smaller port. How much smaller of a port would be virtually impossible to calculate beforehand without some serious number-crunching power.

But don't take my word for it. :01nocomment8so: Build it and see for yourself.

[Tooshort064]

since this is a really dumb topic has anyone every lined the inside of there box with any kind of sound deadner ?

it would obviously push airflow straight for the port ...but on a seriously note anyone every tried it ?

Edited October 3, 2009 by Tooshort064

[EricR]

is this dude for real...inside of a box?

Edited October 3, 2009 by EricR