Box tuning

[ozo]

Alright, so from what I understand, ~30hz is a good place for a box to be tuned, but what happens if the box is tuned too high or too low? I can't seem to find a concrete answer.

Say you tune a box to 50-60hz, and play music that is largely around 30hz, what would happen? What would happen if a box was tuned at 10-15hz? (If you can even tune that low)

[AUDIOADDICT02]

Alright, so from what I understand, ~30hz is a good place for a box to be tuned, but what happens if the box is tuned too high or too low? I can't seem to find a concrete answer.

Say you tune a box to 50-60hz, and play music that is largely around 30hz, what would happen? What would happen if a box was tuned at 10-15hz? (If you can even tune that low)

1st-Damage your subs

2nd-Pointles IMO, not many songs get that low(if any do at all)...

[audiofanaticz]

for a daily box you will want to tune around 29-37hz. but that is opinion and everyone elses is different.

Im a competitor and care about numbers (db) but id rather do a 150db at 32hz then do a 155db at 50hz. But this is just user preference again.

I like the low end bass that shakes everything to hell.

If you tune your box to 50-60hz it is usually considered a SPL box used for burping. The higher tuning makes it easier to hit a higher DB.

Playing a 30-40hz song on a box that is tuned to 50-60hz will unload your woofers, which means your woofers are playing below box tunning so there will be little to no control over the woofers cone when it moves. Its just going to jump around like a plastic bag on a windy day.

What the unloading of a woofer will do is a few things.

Your voice coil will not properly cool, it will get hot, and start to smell.

You may cause your woofer to unload (move farther then it should) bad enough that your spiders may tear, your surrounds may tear, your cone could fold in half, and the voice coil could jump the magnet gap (which if it does, you will probolly bend the voice coil slightly that you woofer will no longer move freely and rub) over time the rubbing will wear thru and you will have a open circuit and a dead voice coil.

Not to mention when you play so low below tuning, you lose a lot of audible bass (same thing if you tune to low and play to high of freq).