Common Chamber or Separate Chambers

[Maritoze]

I have two Memphis M3's and I want to give them about 2cubes each after displacement. I want a slot ported box tuned to about 40 hz...Should I build a common chamber enclosure or separate the chambers? Is there a difference in doing so? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[tlee2]

in a seperate chamber its good cause it will have good bracing. in a common chamber you will have more cubic feet. if space is not a issue i would do seperate chambers because the box would be stronger but dont give up cubic feet just to go seperate

[rubbernutz1]

you can still have the cubes of feet with the common chamber and do the cross bracing inside it to. look at the inside of steve meades box. 1 big chamber with lots of bracing in it. and a HUGE ass port lol :hairtrick:

[Decaf]

I have two Memphis M3's and I want to give them about 2cubes each after displacement. I want a slot ported box tuned to about 40 hz...Should I build a common chamber enclosure or separate the chambers? Is there a difference in doing so? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

tune a bit lower, those m3s are happy at 36ish IME

if u build a common chamber and one sub blows u cannot use the other speaker til both are working whereas if u built separate chambers u can at least play one

personally id rather have a common chamber, its usualy is louder/more efficient because u dont have to worry about making two perfectly identical boxes or internal volumes... id much rather brace it with dowel rods and get the most amount of space and port i need

depending on where the port is there is a benefit to do port down the middle, this adds alot of strength but again u have to be pretty much perfect with port lengths, 45s ect

unless im asked i always make a common chamber box well braced

you can still have the cubes of feet with the common chamber and do the cross bracing inside it to. look at the inside of steve meades box. 1 big chamber with lots of bracing in it. and a HUGE ass port lol :hairtrick:

o lulz, wrong

his port is tiny!!!!

thats why he can throw gobs of power to them, he has lots of cone control with a small box and small port

[Polecat]

you can make a common chamber work, me, personally, have always liked seperate chambers. You can always make a common work with any cubic feet, all your doing is sharing one chamber and one common port. (generally)

[Maritoze]

Thanks for the input. I think I will be going with a common chamber.