CRZYSTNG

I am just about at ends meet with this Z-5500 “sub” and its lack of low end “sub” extension and am now starting to resort to more drastic means of obtaining that low end extension form this driver. I don’t want to hook my 15’s back up so I can get a nice low end in this room for music listening, (they are way too much for this little room and everyone else, including the animals, HATES it when I make the windows bow) or just build an enclosure with a much lower tuning and flatter response curve (esp. without knowing the exact T/S parameters of the driver) but will if it comes down to it .

So I am now looking at compound loading this sub before I start to jump the gun, however, this is one area of acoustics/audio that I do not know much about. Just wondering if anyone else on here actually knows about this and maybe some numbers to go along with it?

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soloz2

move it around. Placement has a huge effect on output. Placing it in the corner typically helps boost. You might want to try placing it on an Auralex Subdude as well

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CRZYSTNG

Ya, that’s what I have been trying to do however, I really don’t have any free corners open to stuff the sub. The only real working room for it that I do have free is underneath the desk. It’s a fairly large openish area, but I fear that I am going to have to modify the desk so that I can create some form of enclosure to load the sub. I have tried placing the port closer to the back/side wall with the driver facing a different direction and I can get it to sound ok while my head is in the “loaded” area, but when I sit back in the chair it almost sounds like a reversed phase.
Pic of what the desk looks like.

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soloz2

are you on a second story with wood floors? then a subdude will really help you out. a lot of the energy from your sub is going right to the floor as vibrations.

What is to the right of the file cabinet? could you move the file cabinet somwhere and put the sub in the corner?

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noname

Move your desk into the a corner , that way you can clean your room too :P

Its always nice to have a change of scene.

The subdude is also something i would recommend. It will prolly make your sub tighter as well.

Do you use Foobar2000 to play your music? I know there is a dsp that deals with channels and you can configure your sub somehow to give it more THUMP

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CRZYSTNG

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. My back decided that I wasn’t going to walk yesterday so I had to take my pain pills and try to stay off it. I live in an old trailer with add-ons, so no chance of any kind of floating floors in here. I do have a really thick carpet down to help with some of the transferred vibrations and the sub has some of those rubber feet on the bottom which I try to keep on the carpet. I’m not really looking for the energy/vibrational power as much as I am the actual efficiency/pressure/sound waves. I know part of the problem is that I listen to the stereo mostly late at night so I don’t turn it up very loud at all.

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Originally Posted by soloz2 What is to the right of the file cabinet? could you move the file cabinet somewhere and put the sub in the corner?

Off to the side of the file cabinet is my closet stuffed with more clothes than I know what to do with. I have found that they do help with some unwanted resonances though . I am sure you can imagine what two 15”s and 1000 RMS will do to a trailer with paneling for walls haha. Anyways, under the clothes is pretty much a storage space where I have my dampening foam in large rolls. The room is pretty cramped and not much I can do with it honestly, which is why I was thinking of modifying the back of the desk legs/frames so that I could better seal the waves and have them pushed out through the front into the room. I’ll take a pic of the back area so you can better understand what I am thinking.

And no I can not push the desk back closer to the wall as my DVR sits on the top shelf and is pushed as far against the back wall as it can be without kinking the cables.

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Originally Posted by noname Move your desk into the a corner , that way you can clean your room too :P Its always nice to have a change of scene. The subdude is also something i would recommend. It will prolly make your sub tighter as well.

The last time I moved this room around it literally took me 5-6 days, due mostly to my back injury and the weight/size of this desk. It measures 60” Wide 31” Deep 57” Tall and I would estimate weight to be around 275 lbs total. So there really isn’t many places in this room that I can put it along with my Queen size bed .

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Originally Posted by noname Do you use Foobar2000 to play your music? I know there is a dsp that deals with channels and you can configure your sub somehow to give it more THUMP

I do use foobar for music playback, but am not really looking for any kind of frequency boost or way to distort my MP3’s any more than they are. Unless you know of a separate EQ that has adjustable bars in the 25, 30, 35, & 40 HZ ranges.

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