Bandpass Subwoofer: You Are Doing it Wrong. Bandpass MYTHS BUSTED!

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The dog ear analogy is perfect because woofers. 🐶

Once or twice a year I find a channel that gives me the old youtube excitement I used to get finding all the awesome content when I was new to the platform. It's rare anymore but still very exciting to find an awesome channel. I'm so happy to find your channel. You've got great content and seemingly a ton of knowledge. Thank you for your videos and channel.

Wow by far you are the only one that gets in deep covers it all and keeps giving info. Please don't stop making videos.

Great video! The bottom line is, ( I don't care if your goal is SPL or sound quality ) every single install is unique. Therefore there are no magic tricks. You have to decide what your goal really is, and design and build the install based on all of your unique variables. Every single install is a series of compromises bar none.

Waking up late on the first Saturday morning I've had off in a good long while, I find this video, buried deep within the typical tripe of YouTube's "recommended" wall. Liked, subbed, and I'll be spending the rest of my morning pouring through your channel! Awesome stuff! So refreshing to see some real technical talk actually based in reality. :D

Idk how I’ve never found your videos before. The way you explain stuff and relate it to real world is awesome! Going to search your videos but I hope you have something on designing regular ported or sealed boxes based off of sub/amp specs!

Thank you very much for this info. I built a few small band pass enclosures for my truck using help from your video and made alterations to practice these changes in tuning. I am now comfortable with this type of enclosure and building a steel framed 1.5 to 1 ratio enclosure for six 15’s to go in the bed of my truck. Thank you for helping me with this project!

Hey a bandpass series, awesome! I remember when I first started seeing the JL boxes at shops back in the day. Those were good sounding boxes! I picked up a box at a bazaar and put my Soundstream USA’s in it. That’s when I realized there’s more to it than meets the eye lol. Awesome video!

I don't know why I wasn't subscribed to this channel yet. Not only are your videos informative, but you respond to comments as well...which is a huge deal. Thanks!

This is one of the best explanation on YouTube IMO. Not only on this topic but generally on acoustic laws and rules in box building and designs. So right to the point with such a control to stay on the topic yet not to miss any critical point in explaining the reasons why. Great video. Its funny how some people talk about bandpass designs as a new fashion thing around the block. It is actually because of those cheap and many bad sounding bandpass boxes with plexiglass panels and bunch of blinking led lights. They are very attractive when you listen to them with your eyes and with LED technology these days those enclosures are coming back to the spotlight again. Bose made them popular with their Acoustimass series in late 80's and early 90's (dual reflex boxes) and they were a big commercial hit at the time. With those cubes the whole system sounded much more powerful then they looked. They had a jaw dropping effect on home listeners and since then satellite/subwoofer systems became very popular. They got a very high approval from female members of the household and we all know they have a great influence on the choices when bringing something in the house. I know all that as those Acoustimass were my first home system with the sub. And everyone who came to my home were very impressed. Until I bought a 15" Velodyne Digital series sub. Then I realised how Acoustimass box sharply drops in low frequency. So loudness cannot fix the lack of bandwidth when you can compare the systems side by side. If you dont hear certain frequencies you will never know they are there (in the source) until you hear them on the system they can reproduce them. And on that topic how some designers put the sub inverted so they can smell the burning coil on the driver during the SPL competition. I must admit Bose found a very elegant solution to protect those 2 small 5-1/4" drivers in their Acoustimass boxes. They put in line a light bulb with a specific resistance with each driver so when the driver receive more than rated power it would start glowing at that point turning that extra power into the light (glowing filament in incandescent bulb). And if you keep pushing you will burn the bulb instead of the driver. Very clever but scary when you dont know this and you see the glowing light coming out of the port when you overload the box. Thanks again for this great video. Instant subscriber.

Bandpass have always been my favorite. I never knew how to design one correctly but when I found an installer/builder who did know what they were doing it always turned out great. Nice to see someone in the modern scene trying to eliminate misnomers about bandpass. Now if I could find someone to design me a bandpass for the 15" B2 X2SIX I just picked up that would be amazing!!!

Wow thats the most informative video ive seen in a LONG time. Subscribed. Would love to see videos like this on series and parallel tuned 6th orders, horns and 1/4 wave T-lines. Thanks for sharing!

First video I've seen from this channel, and it was awesome, thanks! Subscribed! The other thing about bandpass boxes to look out for, with respect to sound quality, is group delay.

Thanks man, I really enjoyed this one. You're fast becoming the Mr. Wizard of car audio. 👍

My favorite kind of subwoofer box!. Been rocking those since '94. I always used the fully carpeted ones back in the day.

This, by far, the best explanation of bandpass enclosures I've ever seen/heard

First video here, I thought I heard “ THIS, is a big ass subwoofer” All right all right my kinda channel. Subscribed.

Leaning so much with videos! Thank you!

Just got yesterday Jamo SW 505E. Seems a pretty solid unit and this video was very informal to understand it. Thank you :)