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dwbarg
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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2005 6:16 am    Post subject: Wakeboar speaker cans Reply with quote

I am building a set of wakeboard speakers. They are 18" long each. I will have 2 speakers in each can. 1 in each end. My question is: Do I need to put a partition in each can to separate the air b/w the speakers?
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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2005 8:20 am    Post subject: reply Reply with quote

It's almost halloween! Just try to find some spider web to stuff in there, or similar type material. You don't have to separate the speakers with something solid unless you absolutely want too. You won't notice much difference if it's solid or just some foam / cotton.
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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2005 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. Cotton would be easy for me to use b/c I manage a cotton gin.
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PostPosted: Sep 21, 2005 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go to home depot or lowes and get some expandable foam, and make a partition of sort with it. If you have speakers firing end to end against one another, you will get volumetric cancellation, and they will sound like sh*t. With the very large size of your cans, you will need a couple of cans of the expandable foam to dampen NVH inside the enclosures.
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PostPosted: Sep 24, 2005 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could also wire the speakers out of phase, they would work a lot better that way than having both in phase with no partition. Just wire black to red and red to black on ONE speaker in each can. I would still put some polyfill in there.
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PostPosted: Sep 27, 2005 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good call on wiring them out of phase, cyclone! That may even help the excursion a little bit to get some more SPL behind the boat.
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