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Message started by Geno on 06/11/22 at 03:52:48

Title: Bucket Sub
Post by Geno on 06/11/22 at 03:52:48

Why does this make me think of Donnie??? :D It is pretty cool!

https://www.transcendentsound.com/bucket-sub.html

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by jec3504 on 06/11/22 at 04:38:31

I could see somebody sitting on that. Wonder how it sounds?

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by CAJames on 06/11/22 at 05:03:54

Sounds even better if you cryo the bucket!

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Geno on 06/11/22 at 05:16:21

;D :D ;D :D

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by johnnycopy on 06/11/22 at 07:33:26

I built 4. They are killer.

https://tubehifi.websitetoolbox.com/post/subwoofer-project-6426090

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Donnie on 06/11/22 at 11:52:24

People and their fancy buckets, I'm more of a garbage can kinda guy!

It does sound better if you fill it with ice cubes.

Or failing that, the box that the sub driver came in.

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by johnnycopy on 06/11/22 at 18:02:31

Standing proud!

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Donnie on 06/11/22 at 18:27:00

Checkmate!

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by johnnycopy on 06/11/22 at 19:17:33

Those aren’t Ed schillings FFRS bucket subs!

They are something :)

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by BicycleJoe on 06/11/22 at 20:12:46

Johnnycopy what size plate amplifier did you use and how much did it cost may I ask.

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Edsonic on 06/11/22 at 20:15:09

re Reply #7 https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1654915968/7#7

So apparently - in order to obtain true fog-horn-level bass, one must make a pipe to dimensions of an actual fog horn pipe.

I love it when some enterprising soul takes it upon himself to turn the figurative into the literal.

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Donnie on 06/11/22 at 21:16:10

They are quarter wave subs. I seem to remember that I needed 93" or such to make them work with the drivers I used.

My neighbors hated them because the wave length came together someplace out toward the end of my driveway. To get good bass in my garage meant that there was serious thumping out in the road in front of my house.

A friend told me that he could hear my subs a block away from my place.

I still have them out in my shed, I might need to drag them out to introduce all of the new neighbors to them.

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by Edsonic on 06/11/22 at 23:16:26

I was just funnin' with the fog horn reference but, no lie, image of the pipe from a tug boat horn came to mind when I saw those subs.

But anyway, if you put them in service again using the 'open garage door port' it might be fun to feed some actual ship horns into them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cQCBwGmZRg

Title: Re: Bucket Sub
Post by johnnycopy on 06/12/22 at 05:40:36

BicycleJoe.

I have three sub amps.

A pair of RYTHMIK plateamps a370peq each at 370 watts for the four 15 inch woofers that are a part of the black baffle speaker system you see in the picture.

I then have a crown 2500 to run the 4 bucket subs. It provides significant power for the purpose.

https://www.crownaudio.com/en/products/xls-2000