Quote Originally Posted by JoeE SP9
The replacement woofers you are using were designed for a ported cabinet. They will never work properly in a sealed (acoustic suspension) cabinet. You need to replace them with woofers designed for acoustic suspension type cabinets. If you do that you should replace any stuffing you have removed. Placing the wrong size and type of woofer in those cabinets has not been any help in your search for better sound. If you replace the current 12" woofers you will probably have to go with 12"s instead of tens like the cabinet size was designed for. Just make sure you get woofers designed for sealed box placement.
When replacing individual speakers of a "system" you must replace them with drivers that are compatible with the speaker as it was designed to be used. You can't just throw any driver you find at it and expect it to work properly.
how do you know a driver is made for a ported cabinet or a sealed cabinet??
and i didn't do the new woofers, my dad did, i was lik 5 years old then.


Quote Originally Posted by PeruvianSkies
Ok, I hope this does not come across as being mean-spirited, so here goes...

I am looking at your setup and your information along with the responses, which have alll been highly knowledgable and very interesting, but my question is simple: Wouldn't it just be easier to get something that is good straight out of the box instead of tweaking around with what you have? I mean, it seems like you are causing more problems by messing around with parts here and there and it would all be solved by getting something that sounds great straight from the getgo.

Do you have a budget plan in mind for when you upgrade in the near future as you mentioned? It might be smart to reallly think through your options based on certain financial stipulations and really attack this thing sharply. I think that many of us would agree that we wish we would have planned for things a bit better over the years when it comes to components etc etc.

how do you mean "out of the box"
i probably upgrade next summer, when i hope to have some work,
the budget will be from 500€ (hopely more) to 1000€ the upgrades (which will be speakers) i thought of will probably be wharfedale diamond 9.5 or 9.6 speakers or a focal speaker, not sure which one fits the budget though. keep in mind that i'm only 16 so money is hard to get.