Instruction Manual To ensure maximum performance and safety, please follow this manual.
OWNERS MANUAL Model: BlackAir 10, 12 & 15 Congratulations on purchasing your VIBE Blackair subwoofer. Please read this manual in order to fully understand how to get the best results from your subwoofer and ensure that all advice on how to look after the Subwoofer is followed. Thank you for buying VIBE. We hope you enjoy listening to your product as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Run in procedure VIBE recommends that you follow the run in procedure for the subwoofer detailed below. When your Subwoofer is used for the first time, like most brand new items it is naturally very stiff and rigid. It will take time for the moving parts of this Subwoofer to loosen up before the Subwoofer will be ready to deliver its full potential.
Twin woofer configuration + + + + - + - 2 Ohm - series / parallel wiring Installation The Blackair subwoofer can be installed in a variety of different ways, the most suitable will depend upon your application. Free-air installation The VIBE Blackair Subwoofer can be mounted free-air, but this does not mean that the woofer can work without any form of enclosure. What it does mean is that the enclosure can be very large and therefore the subwoofer can utilise the vehicles boot as an enclosure.
Sealed enclosure installation The most basic and simple of all speaker enclosures is the sealed enclosure otherwise referred to as an acoustic suspension design. They are called acoustic suspension enclosures because the air inside the box acts like a brake to control the woofer. The sealed enclosure is the easiest design to build and tune, as long as you work within the minimum and maximum recommended volumes you cannot get it wrong.
Enclosure construction Use at least 3/4 inch MDF (medium density fibreboard) or Birch ply to construct your enclosure and at least 1 inch is recommended for the baffle. It is recommend that the panels are glued, screwed and braced with sections of the same material you have used to build the enclosure from. The BlackAir woofer is capable of producing internal pressures that can literally blow apart badly made enclosures, so great care needs to be taken with the construction and bracing of your enclosure.
If we require a volume of 2.5cuft then we multiply this by 1728 2.5 x 1728= 4320 cubic inches. We now take 2 known enclosure dimensions that we will use, e.g height and width and divide this figure by them which will give us the depth, for example our height is 15”, our width is 20”. So our depth is 14.4” for this enclosure. Note : this formula is for the INTERNAL dimensions, please add the thickness of the material used to construct the enclosure to the formula to give you the outside dimensions.
Limited Warranty All VIBE products carry a full twelve months warranty period, valid from the date of the original receipt and proof of purchase. In order to validate this warranty, the warranty card should be returned to VIBE within seven days of the original purchase date. The original receipt and packaging are should also be retained for this twelve month period.
Parameters for BlackAir Subwoofers RMS power Peak power Min, Input wattage Diameter in inches Z- Nominal Impedance in Ohms Revc = DC voice coil resistance in Ohms Fo = Free air resonance frequency in Hz Sd = Piston area in square meters Vas = Equivalent acoustic volume in cubic litres Cms = Mechanical suspension compliance Mmd = Diaphram mass in grams Mms = Mechanical mass of cone and free air load in grams BL = The magnetic strength of the motor structure Qms = Mechanical Q factor of driver Qes = Electrica
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