How to Make a Bandpass Portable Speaker Box
Bass response is necessary for a well-balanced musical experience. To accurately reproduce low frequencies, a sub-woofer with a properly designed enclosure should be employed. Three types of enclosures...
View ArticleHow to Recoil a P3 Speaker
The P3 series of speakers are manufactured by Rockford Fosgate and are part of its Punch line of subwoofers. The P3 subwoofers are available with either an impedance of 2- or 4-ohms with a woofer...
View ArticleHow to Make a Single 12 Ported Box
Twelve-inch subwoofers can provide a big bass bang to your car audio system. And if you put your 12-inch sub into a ported box, you'll get even more boom. Building a ported box isn't much more...
View ArticleHow to Make a Fiberglass Speaker Box Baffle Enclosure
Fiberglass is used to make complex shapes, molding around speaker enclosures to create baffles. Speakers are mounted to the baffle after the fiberglass dries. The fiberglass mold creates a solid...
View ArticleHow to Get Cubic Feet in a Speaker Box
A speaker box is designed to maintain a specific volume around a subwoofer to optimize audio output. This volume requirement pertains mostly to automobile subwoofers whose speaker boxes frequently must...
View ArticleHow to Patch a Subwoofer
The amount of stress that is put on a subwoofer can cause the speaker to come apart. Even if your speaker has only a tiny crack in the cone, the overall sound quality can be compromised. If your...
View ArticleHow to Adjust a Dual Subwoofer Phase
If your Dual subwoofer is out of phase -- moving opposite to the other speakers in your system -- the sound waves of the subwoofer can cancel out the sound waves of your other car speakers, resulting...
View ArticleHow to Make a Bandpass Box for 15-Inch Speakers
A custom stereo system for an automobile is not complete without a sub-woofer. Designed to reproduce frequencies a normal speaker cannot, a sub-woofer will add low-end response to an otherwise balanced...
View ArticleHow to Mount a 4X10 Speaker Bracket
The 4X10 speaker is an oval-shaped car audio speaker used in select GM vehicles in the 1970s and 1980s. It's an unusual speaker size, but there are aftermarket models available. In some cases,...
View ArticleWhat Is SPL & SQ Audio?
Some people use their car's audio system just to listen to music while driving from one point to another and the stock audio system is enough for this task. Music enthusiasts, however, demand more from...
View ArticleWhat Causes Car Speakers to Be Blown?
The speakers in your car are the only thing standing between you and excellent sound quality in your audio system. Inadequate or blown speakers cause playback to sound gritty, tinny or distant, and...
View ArticleHow to Connect Tweeters With a Capacitor
Tweeters are small speaker drivers that play high frequencies in an audio system. Adding tweeters to an existing system is not extraordinarily difficult to accomplish, but the tweeters must be...
View ArticleThe Differences Between an RFP-3212 & an RFP-3412
Powerful, efficient bass is a cornerstone of Rockford Fosgate car woofers. The punch comes from a cone made from a Rockford Fosgate exclusive: a chemically-bonded paper stock called FiberLock. The...
View ArticleHow to Build an Audio Band Pass Filter
When playing music or sounds through a speaker, frequencies that are too high or too low for the speaker's design can damage the component. An audio bandpass filter will protect your speaker from high...
View ArticleHow to Install a Ported Enclosure
Ported enclosures offer more efficiency per watt. This translates into louder bass with less power. Installing these enclosures properly involves a little trial and error to determine the best room...
View ArticleHow to Check to See if the Connectors Are in Reverse Polarity
Polarity is the separation of the negative and positive flow of electrons. When dealing with DC current like you find in your vehicle's electrical system, the positive flow is on one path and the...
View ArticleWhat Is Better a Sealed Box or Ported?
Subwoofer enclosures can be either sealed or ported in design. These enclosures vary in construction and sound, and often the space and power limitations of your stereo installation project will...
View ArticleHow to Rebuild Subwoofers
A subwoofer is a component of an audio speak that has to work hard to kick out the low tones it's designed to produce. When the subwoofer is in action, the cone moves back and forth to produce sound...
View ArticleWhat Are Micro Dome Tweeters?
Micro dome tweeters are loudspeakers that car stereo systems typically use. These small devices produce high-frequency sounds; as parts of stereo systems, micro dome tweeters combine with other...
View ArticleHow to Install Tweeters With Bass Blockers
Tweeters are high-frequency transducers, moving thousands of times per second to reproduce treble. Given the small diameter of a typical tweeter and the physical inability to reproduce bass, these...
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