So I am egotistical enough to believe that you are all waiting to hear what in the hell Donnie is doing today. Well I'll tell you.
I woke up with big plans to build something but kind of got stuck reading a book and listening to music.
Stuck sounds wrong, I was enjoying it too much to put it down. Remember, reading is FUNdamental.
So later on this afternoon I decided to do something with this HSU 12" subwoofer driver that has been sitting for months in a cardboard box sub "cabinet" in the back corner of my listening room.
I thought about making yet another DeathBox, but I have other drivers to use in those, so something else was needed.
I started to Google different plans online, exotic stuff, 6th order, 8th order, Transmission line stuff, but decided to just calm myself down and just build a 2.5 cubic foot ported box. Simple enough to find plans, straight forward stuff, not requiring 6 sheets of MDF and days of cutting.
Well I printed out the plans and carried them and my laptop out to the garage, fired up my garage stereo, backed the cars out and got down to it.
Well as I dug through the sheets of MDF I noticed that it seemed awfully warm out there and bugs were biting me on my skinny legs.
I then looked over at the cardboard box the the driver was already setting in and reality hit me, it was too damn hot to be messing around very long out there.
So out came my roll of duct tape and I started taping the driver back into the hole that I'd cut in it a couple of months ago.
Unfortunately, my roll of super duper red duct tape soon ran out, so I grabbed a roll of 2" wide blue painters tape to finish the job.
I wired it up to a Dayton sub amp and started playing it with the pair of transmission line speakers that I just finished for my buddy.
It actually sounded pretty OK, so I thought if a little is good, a lot must be better.
Out came my pocket knife and a piece of plastic drain pipe and within a couple of minutes I had a ported box. I'd also taken the stuffing out of one of my wife's useless couch pillows to add a little stuffing while I had the hole in the side open.
Surprisingly it sounded real good. Actually good enough after playing it for a few minutes in the hot ass garage I dragged it down to the air conditioned stereo room to play with my open baffles and tell you all this story.
As they say, pictures or it didn't happen, proof positive that it was too hot out to mess around today.