Dayton Audio Reference RSS210HO Dual Box: Sealed 8" Down Fire Enclosure Dual 8" Sealed enclosure

The Reference RSS210HO, yes, in both coil versions. The baffle is cut to 7.28 in for Dayton's 8.39 in frame. The 4.96 inch motor clears the cabinet with 0.75 inch to spare. Run two of the same coil so the chambers match.

Any other 8, no. The airspace is engineered around the Reference RSS210HO's own Qts and Vas, and a different woofer that happened to drop into the hole would not see the alignment printed on this page.

0.39 cubic feet net per chamber on Dayton's published figures: the RSS210HO-4 (single 4 ohm) reads Qtc 0.657 with resonance at 48.6 Hz and half power at 52.6 Hz, and the RSS210HO-8 (single 8 ohm) reads Qtc 0.641 with resonance at 48.6 Hz and half power at 54.2 Hz. One cabinet serves both coils, built to the volume that keeps both closest to maximally flat. That is a slightly over-damped alignment: a gentle, early rolloff and tight transients rather than a flat top.

The 4.96 inch mounting depth sets the minimum cabinet height here, so the airspace is what the motor allows rather than a free choice.

Dayton rates the Reference RSS210HO at 300 watts RMS per driver, so target 210 to 300 watts RMS per driver at the final load.

Dayton sells the RSS210HO as RSS210HO-4 (single 4 ohm) and RSS210HO-8 (single 8 ohm); a matched pair should share a coil. A pair of single 4 ohm drivers lands on 2 ohms in parallel or 8 ohms in series. A pair of single 8 ohm drivers lands on 4 ohms in parallel or 16 ohms in series. Anything under 1 ohm, and many amplifiers at 1 ohm, is outside what the amplifier is built for, so series wiring is the safe default. Confirm your amplifier's minimum stable impedance first.

The cabinet is 6.46 inches tall measured in the down fire position, and that figure excludes the standoffs. The standoffs hold 1.75 inches under the baffle, so plan your space around a finished stack of roughly 8.21 inches.

The footprint is the standard Performance Optimized down fire platform, 30.00 inches wide by 15.00 deep. Height is the only dimension solved to the driver, and here it is the Reference RSS210HO's 4.96 inch motor that sets it.

Two drivers sharing one sealed volume load each other: each driver's compression stroke becomes the pressure the other works against, which blurs the alignment either would have alone. A bonded full-height 3/4 inch divider gives each driver its own 0.39 cubic feet and its own polyfill.

It also means a failure in one driver does not unload the other, and the alignment on this page is the alignment in each chamber, not an average across a shared box.

Anechoic F3 is 52.6 Hz on the RSS210HO-4 (single 4 ohm) and 54.2 Hz on the RSS210HO-8 (single 8 ohm) per chamber. Below Qtc 0.707 the rolloff is gentle and F3 sits above fc, which is what an over-damped sealed box does.

Those figures exclude cabin gain. In a car the cabin's transfer function adds real output below 50 Hz, so in-vehicle response runs deeper than the numbers above.

No. Polyfill is already installed in both chambers as a light wall lining to control internal reflections, and the quantity is chosen so it does not change the acoustic volume.

Do not add more. Packing a sealed box with fill makes it behave as though it were larger, which walks the alignment away from the 0.39 cubic feet per chamber this cabinet was built to.

No driver. This is an enclosure only. You receive the cabinet finished in plush black carpet, one side-mounted pre-wired terminal cup to both positions, the polyfill lining already in place, the standoffs, and stainless machine screws, with the threaded inserts already pressed.

The inserts are pressed at the shop on Dayton's published bolt circle for the Reference RSS210HO, so the driver bolts straight in. The pair of Dayton Audio Reference RSS210HO is purchased separately, and the cabinet is cut direct fit to it, not a general purpose 8 inch box.