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<blockquote data-quote="Electrodynamic" data-source="post: 4253798" data-attributes="member: 548723"><p>It's all about volume really.</p><p></p><p>Why would you want to have four 10's in 2 cubes when you can fit four 12's in 2 cubes? You end up taking up a much longer/wider portion of your trunk vs. a narrower footprint. And if you can't fit the extra width for four 10's, you end up making it taller or deeper to accomodate the extra volume, which goes right back to why wouldn't you do 12's if you now have a face that's 13" tall?</p><p></p><p>Lets take a look at a few enclosures shall we? We'll use 0.5" material to make things easy and I'll also work with external dimensions but I'll post the actual internal volume. Afterall, it's external dimensions we're concerned with, right?</p><p></p><p>Four 10's in 2 cubic feet. I want a 10" because I want a short enclosure. Lets use a 10" tall enclosure (Every 10" sub is larger than 10", but I'm going to use 10" just for demonstration purposes only). So a 10" tall enclosure that is 10" deep has to be 43.6" long to get 2 cubic feet internally. The key thing to notice there is the width - a 43" long enclosure. 43" of width takes up a good bit of trunk space when your goal is a small enclosure.</p><p></p><p>Now lets look at four 12's in 2 cubic feet. Say we shoot for a 12" tall enclosure (again, 12's are larger than 12.0" but just bare with me for demonstration purposes). A 12" tall enclosure that is only 24" wide (putting both 12's next to each other) ends up being 13" deep. Much smaller footprint for the goal of 2 cubes. That's an enclosure that is 1.7 times shorter for only 2" more height and 3" more depth.</p><p></p><p>Going with four 12's over four 10's provides you with a great solution for a small footprint enclosure. Those extra 2" in height and depth make the enclosure width considerably smaller. Intead of having a box that stretches across the back of your trunk (remember 43" wide), you can have an enclosure that rests anywhere you want to put it and has twice the output with the same amount of power (double the surface area). When you draw out the box dimensions, four 12's in 2 cubes affords you more useable trunk space than four 10's in 2 cubes when you try to stick with a small front face on your enclosure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Electrodynamic, post: 4253798, member: 548723"] It's all about volume really. Why would you want to have four 10's in 2 cubes when you can fit four 12's in 2 cubes? You end up taking up a much longer/wider portion of your trunk vs. a narrower footprint. And if you can't fit the extra width for four 10's, you end up making it taller or deeper to accomodate the extra volume, which goes right back to why wouldn't you do 12's if you now have a face that's 13" tall? Lets take a look at a few enclosures shall we? We'll use 0.5" material to make things easy and I'll also work with external dimensions but I'll post the actual internal volume. Afterall, it's external dimensions we're concerned with, right? Four 10's in 2 cubic feet. I want a 10" because I want a short enclosure. Lets use a 10" tall enclosure (Every 10" sub is larger than 10", but I'm going to use 10" just for demonstration purposes only). So a 10" tall enclosure that is 10" deep has to be 43.6" long to get 2 cubic feet internally. The key thing to notice there is the width - a 43" long enclosure. 43" of width takes up a good bit of trunk space when your goal is a small enclosure. Now lets look at four 12's in 2 cubic feet. Say we shoot for a 12" tall enclosure (again, 12's are larger than 12.0" but just bare with me for demonstration purposes). A 12" tall enclosure that is only 24" wide (putting both 12's next to each other) ends up being 13" deep. Much smaller footprint for the goal of 2 cubes. That's an enclosure that is 1.7 times shorter for only 2" more height and 3" more depth. Going with four 12's over four 10's provides you with a great solution for a small footprint enclosure. Those extra 2" in height and depth make the enclosure width considerably smaller. Intead of having a box that stretches across the back of your trunk (remember 43" wide), you can have an enclosure that rests anywhere you want to put it and has twice the output with the same amount of power (double the surface area). When you draw out the box dimensions, four 12's in 2 cubes affords you more useable trunk space than four 10's in 2 cubes when you try to stick with a small front face on your enclosure. [/QUOTE]
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