Here’s one from the archives. Way back, someone asked me to take a look at an amp that had suddenly stopped working. The amp/receiver in question was a NAD T752 and spent its life in this person’s garage, which they claimed had suddenly stopped working. Opening the cover revealed a rather disturbing sight. One of… Read more »
A customer came to me wanting a custom sub box to fit into the back of his old Chevy Blazer. He had three Alpine SWR-10D2 subwoofers and and an Alpine MRX-M240 mono amp which is spec’d to output 2400W into 2 ohms. Finding Maximum Power Per Driver One of the first steps is calculating the… Read more »
When it comes to speaker design, the lowest frequency driver determines the volume and therefore overall size of the enclosure. The required volume is determined by the mechanical and electrical characteristics of the driver and whether or not the enclosure is ported or sealed. A tool I like to assist me for designing enclosures is… Read more »