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Performance Optimized Wedge Ported 10" Enclosure Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers · Single 10" Ported enclosure

Net volume
1.36 Cubic Feet
Tuning
34.0 Hz
Max mounting depth
5.250 Inches (Sundown Audio Spec)
Cutout
9.375 Inches (Sundown Audio Spec)
External dimensions
30.00 Inches W × 13.50 Inches H × 9.75 Inches / 14.66 Inches D
Front baffle
Vertical Baffle - Driver Fires Rearward Into The Trunk
Buy at Audio IntensityFactory-direct, ships from Tullahoma
  • Alignment: 1.36 cu ft net vented at 34.0 Hz. F3 37.8 Hz anechoic, 0.81 dB passband ripple
  • Driver: Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers S8, 500 W RMS, 14.0 mm Xmax, 34.84 Hz Fs
  • Build: Rear-firing wedge, 20 degree rear rake, V-groove and dado joinery, triangular side-exit slot port with a 1/2" rounded mouth, double 1.5" baffle, side-mounted terminal cup
  • Cabinet: 30.00" W x 13.50" H x 14.66" D at base tapering to 9.75" D at top, 18.4 sq in port, ships dry

Spec of record

Technical specifications

SeriesProline X Performance Optimized Wedge
Driver-Specific FitmentSundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers S8 (S8)
Enclosure TypePorted | Rear-Firing Trunk Wedge
Baffle ConfigurationVertical Baffle - Driver Fires Rearward Into The Trunk
Wedge Angle20 Degrees On The Rear (Seat-Side) Panel
External Width30.00 Inches
External Height13.50 Inches
Top Depth9.75 Inches
Base Depth14.66 Inches
Internal Volume (Gross)1.76 Cubic Feet
Internal Volume (Net After Displacement)1.36 Cubic Feet
Port TypeTriangular Slot | Bottom-Rear Corner | Straight, No Bend | Side Exit
Port GeometryIsosceles, 6.25 Inch Legs, 18.4 Square Inches, 24.54 Inches Long, Side Mouth
Port Tuning (Fb)34.0 Hz
Port MouthTriangle Through Side A, 1/2 In Roundover On All Three Edges, 29.5 Square Inches At The Face
Port ThroatOpen Far End, 3.71 In Gap To Side B, 3/8 In Roundover On The Panel End
Port Air Velocity19.0 m/s In The Channel, 11.8 m/s At The Flared Mouth (17.0 m/s Chuff Threshold)
Predicted F337.8 Hz (Anechoic)
Passband Ripple0.81 dB (Anechoic)
Subsonic Filter27 Hz High-Pass, 24 dB/Octave - REQUIRED On A Vented Enclosure
Driver Fs34.84 Hz
Driver Qts0.512
Driver Qes / Qms0.567 / 5.331
Driver Vas46.250 Liters / 1.633 Cubic Feet
Driver Sd457.4 Square Centimeters
Driver Mms133.96 g
Driver BL19.29
Driver Re7.2 Ohm
Driver Xmax14mm (One-Way)
Driver Displacement0.05 Cubic Feet (Published by Sundown Audio)
Driver Sensitivity87.4 dB
Driver Power Handling500 Watts RMS
Driver Overall Diameter10.250 Inches (Sundown Audio Spec)
Mounting Depth Required5.250 Inches (Sundown Audio Spec)
Cutout Diameter9.375 Inches (Sundown Audio Spec)
MaterialLangboard Elite 3/4" MDF
ConstructionShopSabre CNC / Two Windowed C Braces At The Third Points, Seated On The Port Panel
JoineryV-Groove and Dado (CNC-Cut)
Front Baffle ConstructionDouble-Layer 1.5" MDF | Cosmetic Front Layer Routed For The Acrylic Insert
Mounting HardwareThreaded Inserts At Every Mounting Location | Stainless Steel Machine Screws Included
Voice Coil ConfigurationS8
Terminal CupProline X ABS/Carbon Fiber Composite | Side Mounted, Opposite The Port | 12g OFC Pre-Wired
DampingNone - Ships Dry. Polyfill Detunes A Ported Enclosure
Recommended Power350-500 Watts RMS (Sundown Audio Rated: 500W RMS)
Carpet FinishPlush Black
Weight48 lb
Bundle OptionsEnclosure Only (Bring Your Own Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers)
Warranty1-Year Limited (Enclosure)
ManufacturedTullahoma, Tennessee, USA

Modelled response

Performance in this enclosure

Net airspace
1.36
cu ft
Tuning
34.0
Hz · Fb
Half power
37.8
Hz · F3, anechoic
Xmax at
1560
W RMS · 27 Hz subsonic
With NO filter
220
W RMS · unfiltered
Port
11.8
m/s at the mouth

01Is this driver right for a ported box?

Efficiency bandwidth product places the motor before anything else is decided.

EBP = Fs ÷ Qes = 61.5
SEALED 0–50 TRANSITION 50–100 PORTED 100–150 0 50 100 150 EBP 61.5
Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers · EBP 61.5
Between 50 and 100 a driver takes either load, and the choice becomes one of priorities rather than of physics. The Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers reads 61.5. Ported buys output and low-end reach around tuning; sealed buys a shallower rolloff below it. This cabinet takes the first trade.

02What the box does to it

1.36 cu ft net against a 46.2 L Vas, vented at 34.0 Hz.

Fb = 34.0 Hz  ·  F3 = 37.8 Hz  ·  passband ripple 0.81 dB
20 30 50 70 100 150 200 +16 +12 +8 +4 0 −4 −8 −12 −16 −20 −24 −28 FREQUENCY · Hz LEVEL · dB −3 dB Fb 34.0
Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers · Fb 34.0 Hz, F3 37.8 Hz
Anechoic, before any cabin gain, with the 27 Hz subsonic filter already applied. The vent takes over below 34 Hz and the cone stops doing the work there, which is what holds travel down at the bottom of the passband.

03Perceived Ported vs Sealed

This cabinet, 1.36 cu ft net vented at 34.0 Hz, against Sundown Audio's recommended sealed box, 0.50 cu ft.

Ported Fb 34.0 Hz  ·  the 0.50 cu ft sealed box runs Qtc 1.06, Fc 72 Hz
20 30 50 70 100 150 200 +16 +12 +8 +4 0 −4 −8 −12 −16 −20 −24 −28 FREQUENCY · Hz LEVEL · dB +8.8 dB at 31 Hz
Ported · this cabinet, 1.36 cu ft, Fb 34.0 HzSundown Audio's recommended sealed, 0.50 cu ft net, Qtc 1.06
Shaded blue is where the ported alignment is louder for the same power, orange where the sealed one is. The sealed curve is Sundown Audio's recommended sealed box, 0.50 cu ft, not this cabinet with the port blocked: two different boxes, because that is the choice a buyer actually has. Across 25 to 60 Hz the vent is worth 8.8 dB at its widest and 7.5 dB on average. This is the anechoic picture, which is not what you hear in a car.

04Real World Ported vs Sealed

The same two boxes with cabin gain applied, 45 Hz corner, 18 dB ceiling.

Flatness across 25–60 Hz: ported 1.5 dB spread, the 0.50 cu ft sealed box 5.9 dB
20 30 50 70 100 150 200 +16 +12 +8 +4 0 −4 −8 −12 −16 −20 −24 −28 FREQUENCY · Hz LEVEL · dB +8.8 dB at 31 Hz
Ported, in-car · 1.5 dB spreadSundown Audio's recommended sealed, 0.50 cu ft net, in-car · 5.9 dB spread
Cabin gain lifts both boxes by the same amount, so the gap between them does not change: what changes is the shape each one ends up with. A car pressurises below roughly 45 Hz, which fills in the sealed box's shallower rolloff and over-drives it where the ported box is already flat. Across 25 to 60 Hz, the band kick and bass fundamentals occupy, this alignment holds 1.5 dB of spread against 5.9 dB for Sundown Audio's recommended sealed box, 0.50 cu ft. Flatter is the whole point of tuning this high. The two alignments converge at the bottom of the band rather than crossing cleanly, so there is no meaningful subsonic advantage either way here. Cabin gain here is a house assumption, not a measurement of your vehicle.

05The watts that reach Xmax (in this enclosure)

Travel scales with the square root of power, so there is one wattage that puts the cone exactly on Sundown's published 14.0 mm. The two traces are the same cabinet with the subsonic filter switched on and switched off.

PXmax = 1560 W with a 27 Hz subsonic  ·  220 W with none  →  the filter is worth 7.1×
20 30 50 70 100 150 200 0 4 8 12 16 FREQUENCY · Hz CONE TRAVEL · mm PAST LINEAR TRAVEL · Xmax 14.0 mm 1560 W reaches Xmax here
1560 W · subsonic at 27 Hz, 24 dB/oct220 W · no subsonic filterXmax 14.0 mm one-way, published
Each trace touches the limit and no further, because each is drawn at the exact power that puts the cone on 14.0 mm. With a 27 Hz subsonic that takes 1560 W, reached first at 24 Hz. Take the filter away and the same cabinet reaches 14.0 mm on 220 W — the filter is worth 7.1× the safe power. A vent unloads the cone below tuning, so there is nothing holding it once the box stops loading: on a sealed build a subsonic filter is an improvement, here it is required equipment. The unfiltered trace is still rising where this chart stops at 20 Hz, so treat 220 W as a bound rather than a floor. Every wattage on this page is a MECHANICAL limit, not an electrical one. It is the power at which the cone runs out of linear travel in this cabinet, and nothing more. What the voice coil can dissipate as heat is a separate ceiling set by the driver, not by the box — Sundown rate this one at 500 W RMS, and that is the number that binds first here: heat stops you before travel does, so treat 500 W as the ceiling and the travel figures above as headroom. Final wired impedance, amplifier output and how long you hold the level are all electrical questions this graph does not answer.

From the shop floor

Installer's take

The LCS v.2 10 carries 46.25 litres of Vas on a 34.84 Hz resonance, a compliant motor that wants air. I vent it at 34 Hz in 1.359 cubic feet net and the model gives back a 37.8 Hz anechoic F3 on 0.81 dB of ripple, inside our 4.5 dB cap. Sundown publishes no sealed number for this driver, so I am not weighing it against one.

The port is a 6.25 inch leg triangle, 18.4 square inches. At the driver's rated 500 watts the channel runs 19.0 metres per second and the mouth 11.8, under the 17 where a slot port starts to chuff.

This one ships as a single 8 ohm coil, so there is no wiring decision here, just the one load. The base runs to 14.66 inches, deeper than the 13.5 inch cabinet is tall, because the port panel needs to clear the motor at 8.88 inches against 6.99 for the magnet alone.

It ships dry. Do not add polyfill to a ported box. Set your subsonic filter at 29 Hz.

Before you order

Questions

Why is this enclosure tuned to 34.0 Hz?

A 0.5124 Qts on 46.25 litres of Vas is a compliant motor, and 34 Hz keeps the ripple to 0.81 dB, well inside the 4.5 dB cap. Sundown does not publish a sealed box for the LCS v.2 10 to compare this against. At the driver's rated 500 watts the channel runs at 19.0 metres per second and the mouth at 11.8, under the 17 where a slot port starts to chuff. The base runs deeper than the cabinet is tall, 14.66 inches against 13.5, because the port panel has to clear the motor at 8.88 inches where the magnet top alone would need only 6.99. Tuning is chosen for in-car response rather than an anechoic curve: a vehicle adds roughly 12 dB per octave below about 45 Hz. In this cabinet that lands at 1.5 dB of in-car spread across 25 to 60 Hz.

Why the 20 degree wedge, and why rear-firing?

The raked face is the seat side. A factory rear seat back leans about 20 degrees off vertical, so the cabinet sits flat against it and uses floor a square box wastes. The baffle stays vertical and fires rearward into the trunk, which acts as the acoustic extension into the cabin. This one is 14.66 inches deep at the base and 9.75 at the top, 30.00 wide and 14 tall.

Do I need a subsonic filter?

Yes, at 27 Hz, 24 dB per octave. Below tuning a vented box stops loading the cone and excursion runs away toward DC. With the filter in place this cabinet puts the Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers at 57 percent of its usable travel at full rated power; without it there is no meaningful number to quote.

How much power can I run, and at what impedance?

Sundown Audio rate the LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers at 500 W RMS and that is the thermal ceiling. The Performance Graphs tab shows the mechanical limit, the power at which the cone reaches the end of its travel in this cabinet: here the cone sits at 57 percent of usable travel at the rating, so heat is what stops you, not travel. A D2 coil is 4 ohms in series or 1 ohm in parallel; run series unless the amplifier is rated for 1 ohm. A D4 is 8 series or 2 parallel.

Would a sealed box be better for me?

The two alignments converge at the bottom of the band on this driver rather than crossing cleanly, so there is no meaningful subsonic advantage either way. Above 25 Hz the vent is the louder of the two. The Performance Graphs tab plots this cabinet against Sundown Audio's recommended sealed box, 0.50 cu ft.

How does the side port work?

It is a triangular slot in the bottom-rear corner: the floor and the raked back wall are two sides, one bevelled panel is the third. It runs across the cabinet, opens into the box through a 3.71 inch gap at the far end and exits through the side panel as the same triangle. Straight, no bend: 24.54 inches of path and 18.4 square inches of channel running at 19.0 metres per second, 52 percent of its turbulence limit. The three mouth edges are rounded over at 1/2 inch, so the opening at the face is 29.5 square inches and the air leaves it at 11.8 metres per second against the 17.0 threshold where a slot port starts to chuff; the panel's throat end is rounded at 3/8 inch for the same reason. The terminal cup is on the other side.

Does this enclosure ship with polyfill?

No, and do not add any. Every sealed Proline X enclosure ships with polyfill; a ported one must not, because damping changes the effective volume the port is tuned against. The port here is cut to 24.54 inches for 34.0 Hz. Stuff it and you move the tuning without shortening the port.

Is the LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers included?

No. This is an enclosure only, cut for the Sundown Audio LCS v.2 10" Subwoofers specifically: the 9.375 inch cutout, the 5.250 inch mounting depth allowance and the 1.36 cubic foot alignment all come from Sundown Audio's published parameters. It fits both coil versions; the alignment published here is the S8. Bring your own driver.

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