Can you seal a ported box?

Terry6405 Silver Member Username: Terry6405 Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 944 Registered: Sep-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 04:46 GMT i know, wrong section, but the site is down But could i seal the ports on this box and use it as a sealed box? 2 perfect 12.1s are goin in
Terry6405 Silver Member Username: Terry6405 Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 945 Registered: Sep-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:02 GMT anyone know?
Isaac W. Gold Member Username: Alias747 Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1558 Registered: Apr-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:07 GMT Yeah why not?
Terry6405 Silver Member Username: Terry6405 Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 946 Registered: Sep-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:10 GMT thats what i was thinking, but will that port still being in there hurt anything? i could always carpet it all to caver the crappy holes
SpLChoIce- Silver Member Username: Bump05 Hesperia, CA USA Post Number: 200 Registered: Aug-06	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:10 GMT issac what were you sellin
Isaac W. Gold Member Username: Alias747 Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1559 Registered: Apr-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:12 GMT Make sure that you seal it good though, sealed boxes that leak air are terrible.
Isaac W. Gold Member Username: Alias747 Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1560 Registered: Apr-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 05:13 GMT Me?? I'm not selling anything at the moment.
ty mutlow Gold Member Username: Tjmutlow Post Number: 3161 Registered: Sep-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 13:30 GMT youll never get that box to seal right and the airspace are going to be way off for a sealed enclosure.
Maris Silver Member Username: Johammbass IRL Post Number: 561 Registered: May-06	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 14:17 GMT I say feck it, seal that b:tch, just do a good job, just like Isaac said make sure it doesn't leak The box doesn't seem to be too huge, it could sound OK, believe it or not - it could even sound better than when it was ported, sorry goes out to all the SPL guys on the formum, I say feck the extra 3db Do you know the volume of the box, what subs are you gonna be runnin'?
bassman3 Gold Member Username: Dustin3 Tigard, OR U.S. Post Number: 4092 Registered: Oct-05	Posted on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 16:25 GMT i would take out the middle baffle (if its a dual chamber box) and then take out the port also... then just put a peice of mdf from the inside of the box against the port so it seals it all off. and then you can cover it like that. unless ur thinking of a dual chmaber sealed box
jerome baker Bronze Member Username: Jeromebaker Post Number: 17 Registered: Dec-05	Posted on Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 07:01 GMT Maytbe this is a stupid question, b ut why would you want to seal a ported box? Wouldn't the ported one be louder @ every frequency?
bassman3 Gold Member Username: Dustin3 Tigard, OR U.S. Post Number: 4096 Registered: Oct-05	Posted on Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 07:10 GMT you get better response with sealed boxes and you get better sound quality.. ported boxes are just for spl, but depending on what you tune the port to, you will get mixed sq into it (sq = sound quality)

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