I've built subwoofer enclosures for people and they've painted them. I've never been good at paint, to be honest. This video inspires me to try again some day.
Home Theater Gurus does a great job of showing how to use epoxy primer to seal MDF and then wet-sanding the primer smooth with an orbital sander, cleaning with a tack cloth and then finally finishing the box with base and a top layer.
My experience with painted enclosures: make sure the box is well-braced. A mirror finish will highlight any panel flex.
BigDWiz reviews the best budget amplifiers for 2020 in this informative review. All of the amplifiers produce great power for the money. These amplifiers run the gamut from monoblock subwoofer amplifiers to stereo amplifiers to multichannel amplifiers. Which amplifiers are you picking in 2020?
So, a year or so ago, a number of youtubers were given a sample of Rockville's new line of woofers to test, so they did. There was a promise of an inexpensive, high power handling woofers available and the next thing you know, all of those youtubers blew the woofers. They didn't even have to go "full send". Those youtubers just put the woofer through the paces of a fair test.
Rockville responded to this criticism.... poorly.
ExoContralto did the fair thing and tested the v2 version of the woofer, noting the improvements in both engineering and build quality. He then gave away the driver to one of his viewers. Legend.
Exo waited a year before reviewing another woofer from Rockville because of the fallout of his first review.
This time, he's reviewed Rockville's "Destroyer", a woofer whose xmax parameter is off the charts crazy. This driver's cone flexes 3 inches (76mm) peak to peak.
If you subscribe to Exo's Patreon, you have a chance to win this woofer, though it's got an upgraded dustcap, watch the video to find out why!
The code is now complete on the minimum viable product for the box calc. This means a user can enter driver and enclosure parameters and the application will spit out an enclosure design complete with a 1w/1m response curve.
What does "minimum viable product" mean? It means it's version 0. I have a backlog of half a dozen features I will be including over the coming months, but it feels good to reach this milestone.
That said, the application is not yet public. I dove into code and decided to "deal with that other stuff later". Well, later is now and I get to deal with what the home page is supposed to look like and what the root level url structures are going to be.
I'll have those decisions made in the next couple of weeks, just in time for a summer of box building.
Has it really been 40 years since Rockford Fosgate opened for business? If you count the early Fosgate Electronics car stereo amplifiers of the 1970s, it's been even longer.
Author Brett Solomon provides a brief history of the company, including how they've managed to keep building great amplifiers while expanding their portfolio to over 400 products for Cars, Motorcycles, Boats and ATVs. We also learn how Rockford planned to celebrate their 40th anniversary and how they're trying to keep the celebration going during the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.
One thing is true that's remained since the beginning: Rockford is always working with their customers first and foremost.
