THE DIY SUBWOOFER NETWORK

There are a lot of great subwoofers brands on the market right now.  Most people are familiar with mainstream brands like Alpine , Sony , Polk , Kenwood , Klipsch , Yamaha , Kicker and JL Audio* .  But there are a ton of others that you may not know about, but you SHOULD!  Since this is a DIY page we are going to focus on raw drivers that will work well in both the home and the car.  These are the subwoofers that the insiders and the experts know and love.  So if you know these subs then you are either an insider or an expert.  #1 Dayton Audio  Dayton Audio 10" Ultimax Let's kick off the list with a brand that we have LOT of personal experience with.  Dayton Audio is the house brand for Parts Express, Parts Express specializes in DIY audio and they supply parts to OEM speaker manufactures.   We have personally built several projects using these drivers.     They offer the “classic” line of value priced entry-level subwoofers , these are great subwoofers for an entry leve

  How Does a Subwoofer Port Work? This speaker enclosure has a hole it, and that hole makes better bass.   How can putting a hole in your speaker box make better bass?  Keep reading to find out!   This website contains affiliate links*   Ports look very simple. They are nothing more than tubes or slots built into your enclosure .  But they are actually quite complex.  There are also a lot of misconceptions about ports and how they work.  To those completely unfamiliar with subwoofers they look like a terrible idea.  When the driver pushes out would it not suck air in, and thus the sound back into the enclosure?  While those who are slightly more familiar with subwoofers, in an excellent example of the Dunning Kruger Effect , will argue that when the speaker moves inward the air in the box, and thus sound, sound comes out of the port.  Thus taking advantage of both the backward and forward movements of the subwoofer.  Both of these ideas use the same logic to reach opposite conclus