So I built some subwoofers

[Silock]

Originally Posted by notorious

No kidding.


I was warned by many people on the internet that IB was touchy. You have to worry about cancellation issues.

That would suck to design a room around IB and have it sound like shit.

Yeah, I think it was probably my room more than anything else. The only good place to mount them was all in the rear or 30 feet away on the right hand side of the room. Not a good option either way.

With these, I'm going to put one in the rear left and one in the front right to balance it all out. And then maybe two more in the other corners if I can talk the wife into it

And yes, these took WAY too long to make. Cutting a 24" sonotube level is a pain in the ASS. Took a couple of days to figure out how to do it well.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Silock

Yeah, I think it was probably my room more than anything else. The only good place to mount them was all in the rear or 30 feet away on the right hand side of the room. Not a good option either way.

With these, I'm going to put one in the rear left and one in the front right to balance it all out. And then maybe two more in the other corners if I can talk the wife into it

And yes, these took WAY too long to make. Cutting a 24" sonotube level is a pain in the ASS. Took a couple of days to figure out how to do it well.

Roll it over a table saw?

[Silock]

Originally Posted by notorious

Roll it over a table saw?

It's really, really hard to roll it evenly. And the factory edge isn't square, so if you tried to brace one end for the rolling, it still ended up off.

We ended up putting a disc inside, and getting it level vertically, then used a router with a flush cut bit to strip away the excess tube.

We didn't clamp the caps on the bottom. We just weighted them with lots of MDF sheets and whatever else would fit on top lol

The top caps were clamped cross-wise. It's solid enough that I can stand on it and that's good enough for me lol

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Silock

It's really, really hard to roll it evenly. And the factory edge isn't square, so if you tried to brace one end for the rolling, it still ended up off.

We ended up putting a disc inside, and getting it level vertically, then used a router with a flush cut bit to strip away the excess tube.

We didn't clamp the caps on the bottom. We just weighted them with lots of MDF sheets and whatever else would fit on top lol

The top caps were clamped cross-wise. It's solid enough that I can stand on it and that's good enough for me lol

Oh, duh. Trying to control a 5-6' piece of tubing steady while rolling would be damn near impossible.

My own trial and error probably would have had me running a string around the tube and marking it. Break out the jigsaw and pray.