Please help me design a passive radiator enclosure for my 2 Cerwin Vega VMAX15.2 drivers. Power is coming from a pair of BASH 500 plate amps and signal will be optimized by Audyssey in a receiver or separates yet to be purchased.
I'm not fond of sealed boxes but last time I attempted to spec a ported box for these TLS Guy pointed out a few critical downfalls of a vented enclosure for these drivers.
With all this in mind I'm considering a compromise
Passive radiators. I've attempted to model an enclosure with passive radiators in WinISD but am having trouble. Anyone out there have knowledge and experience designing passive radiator enclosures? Would my drivers even work well in this type of enclosure? I have a fairly large room so a single enclosure with both drivers and radiators is possible even if the volume reaches the 10 cu ft + neighborhood. Although I think 2 separate enclosures would fit the room a little better.
Here are the driver parameters (Thanks for the help!!):
Name: VMAX 15.2
2 coils
Nominal Impedance: 2 ohms
Sensitivity (2.8V@1m): 87.3dB
Power Handling RMS: 600 watts
Voice Coil Dia: 2 1/2"
Mounting Dia: 14 3/32"
Mounting Depth: 7 1/8"
Spkr. Displacement: .22 cu. ft.
Fs: 22.6Hz
Qts: .47
Qms: 4
Qes: .53
Vas: 2.9 ft3
Xmax: +/- .8"
Revc: 1.32 ohms
