Performance Optimized Wedge Ported 15" Enclosure Sundown Audio E-Series v.4 15 · Single 15" Ported enclosure

Sundown's own Qes of 0.62 and Qms of 4.32 support the published 0.54 Qts, and 85.5 litres of Vas on a 15 inch motor is real air moved rather than a small sealed box; Sundown publishes no sealed recommendation for this driver, so none is offered here. At 750 watts the channel runs at 19.2 metres per second and the mouth at 12.8, under the 17 where a slot port starts to chuff. Ripple across the passband holds at 1.48 dB, inside the 4.5 dB the gate allows. The port panel needs 8.56 inches of top depth to clear the motor, against 8.01 for the magnet top alone, and that pushes the base to 16.86, over the 16.00 inch target but still under the 18.00 inch cap. 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 1.2 dB of in-car spread across 25 to 60 Hz.

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 16.86 inches deep at the base and 10.12 at the top, 30.00 wide and 18 tall.

Yes, at 26 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 E-Series v.4 15 at 50 percent of its usable travel at full rated power; without it there is no meaningful number to quote.

Sundown Audio rate the E-Series v.4 15 at 750 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 50 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.

Not one we can show you. We do not build a sealed enclosure for the Sundown Audio E-Series v.4 15 and Sundown Audio mark it Not Recommended for a sealed enclosure, so the Performance Graphs tab carries no ported-versus-sealed chart: the only sealed box left to plot would be this cabinet stuffed and sealed, which nobody would build, and a comparison against it would tell you nothing you could buy. What a vented box gives up is the region below tuning, where the cone unloads and the 26 Hz subsonic filter takes over; around 32.5 Hz the vent carries the load and cone travel drops to its minimum, which no sealed alignment can do.

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 6.22 inch gap at the far end and exits through the side panel as the same triangle. Straight, no bend: 22.03 inches of path and 26.4 square inches of channel running at 19.2 metres per second, 49 percent of its turbulence limit. The three mouth edges are rounded over at 1/2 inch, so the opening at the face is 39.5 square inches and the air leaves it at 12.8 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.

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 22.03 inches for 32.5 Hz. Stuff it and you move the tuning without shortening the port.

No. This is an enclosure only, cut for the Sundown Audio E-Series v.4 15 specifically: the 13.875 inch cutout, the 7.250 inch mounting depth allowance and the 2.27 cubic foot alignment all come from Sundown Audio's published parameters. It fits both coil versions; the alignment published here is the D4. Bring your own driver.