Eminence Killomax Pro 18 Plan

I Have A Lot Of These Speakers And I'm Looking A Good Design That Could Suit These Speaker, But I Don't Want ATall Box. Maxinum Hight 40-42" And Need To Play Very Big And Tight Bass

I don't know if I'm qualified, but I'm working my way threw a similar situation.  I've got some Peavey "Low Riders" I want to use and I'm too "thick" to listen to all the people telling me not to.

I'm starting to build the boxes this week.  The Hornresp charts look reasonable for the Peavey's and I plugged in the Kilomax TS and it seems to perform (although full power would have the cone jump out of the frame.  Power reduction to about 800W).

If your interested, I'll give you a copy of the rough drawing (use at your own risk).  I'm no expert, but I don't quit easy.

Jim

Just took the time to plot some boxes on bassbox pro 6. The Kilomax is only suited to rather large (over 200ltr) ported boxes(as many have said before). I found a happy medium at 250litres tuned to 40hz. This design netted 127db continuous output at 800 watts(60-120hz) so long as you use it with a 35hz HPF. It won't take anywhere near it's 1250 watt maximum unless you put it in a really small box(for it at least!) and tune quite high with an equally high HPF. My 6th order bandpass use much cheaper drivers(p-audio p180/2241) and make 129db from 600 watts(same frequency limit) but only take up 200ltrs. Even eminence say it needs 250-400lts and is NOT suitable for anything else. At least if you were to run them with 'only' 800wrms,thermal compression should be well in check

I have offered to draw some plans for the thread starter and was using a box of 300L tuned to 35 hz and using a couple of 6" dia vents. They still exceed xmax at 40 hz even with only 600 watts but with this driver everything is a compromise.

Tony

hello mate,

Just read you post-

I dont know myself as i have never had any but- I know people who have been putting kilomax's in the ev t18 design reverse folded bass bins and have had quite good results-used in multiples

There is a establisthed company in the Uk- that will sell u the t18's already loaded with kilomax's- so they must have a half decent output!!

I realy dont know-but its worth a try

If you already have a bunch of these things I would consider the rear loaded horn design (scoops).

They will also work OK in a 4th order bandpass, but are only useable from about 50hz~110hz (but they will be 104dB vs 96dB for a standard vented design). The bandpass box would have to be about W30" X H30" X D35" to work right.