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🎤 Sealed-Box Driver Selection

ℹ️ About: Ranks bass drivers for a sealed enclosure from first-principles excursion, Doppler and thermal-power limits at your room and target SPL, assuming half-space (soffit-wall) radiation and a single fixed listening position. A sub (mono manifold) covers the band up to the split frequency; an attack driver (stereo tower, L+R) covers up to the top frequency — the two are ranked independently, then you pick one of each. Target SPL is a per-driver level, separately configurable for each role (default 115 dB sub / 105 dB attack, matching THX reference-level peak calibration: LFE channel 10 dB hotter than the mains): the sub's manifold units and the attack driver's two stereo channels are both correlated/common-signal, so they add coherently at the couch (+20 log10 N, N = units × channels) — e.g. one attack channel at 105 dB plus its stereo twin gives 111 dB at the couch for mono-panned content. Thermal/power headroom, unlike the acoustic sum, never crosses channels: each physical driver still only ever dissipates its own channel's power. 1342 drivers loaded from the bundled VituixCAD database (537 rows skipped for missing data). Room pressure-zone corner fpz = 28.6 Hz for the current room settings.

Room & Target

m — sets the pressure-zone corner fpz = c / (2 Lmax)
m (to the couch)
dB rms-equivalent, per driver (THX LFE reference: 115 dB peak) — correlated manifold units add coherently on top of this (+20log₁₀N)
dB rms-equivalent, per driver (THX main-channel reference: 105 dB peak) — correlated stereo L+R add coherently on top of this (+20log₁₀N)
% non-correctable HD allowed (D*)
sealed-box alignment

Frequency Bands

Hz
Hz
Hz
Advanced: burst/pulse shape
cosine burst shape (paper's Lemma)
short-burst power headroom

Sub (mono, band [flow, fsplit])

to inch

Attack (stereo, band [fsplit, fhigh])

to inch