Professional Series Ported 10" Enclosure | American Bass ES 10

With a Qts of 1.06 the ES 10 is above the 0.707 Butterworth line before it goes in any box, so no sealed cabinet makes it flat; a port is what it wants. The slot is gated at 600 W, 1.2 times American Bass's rating: the channel runs 20.5 m/s and the mouth 11.4, and the cone peaks at 9.8 of its 11.5 mm with the subsonic filter in place. Tuning is chosen for in-car response rather than an anechoic curve: a vehicle adds roughly 12 dB per octave below about 45 Hz, and this tuning is where that sum comes out flattest across 25 to 60 Hz.

Every driver is run through the Performance Optimized wedge and down-fire before this chassis; the Professional box is where a driver lands when that smaller envelope, 30 inches wide and 18 inches deep with a triangular side port, cannot give it what it needs at its rated power. The ES 10 did not clear the ripple 6.35 dB over 4.5 gate there: the nearest wedge that fits is 29.0 by 8.12 by 13.04 inches with a 18.4 square inch port, and no tuning, width or depth inside that envelope passes. The slot on this box reaches 18.8 square inches. An under-ported box does not fail quietly. Air speed at the mouth rises with power; past the chuff line the flow turns turbulent and the port is audible on every note. The turbulence also chokes the port, so the box behaves as if it were tuned higher than it is, loses output near tuning, and lets the cone travel further below tuning than the design allows. This chassis is a full-size front-firing box on a 2.25 inch baffle built from three 3/4 inch layers with the woofer flush-mounted in the outer layer, an American Bass logo acrylic, and a port and excursion budget checked at 600 W. It carries a 2 year warranty, against 1 year on the Performance Optimized lines.

American Bass does not publish the mounting hole locations for the ES 10, so we cannot install the threaded inserts before it ships. The threaded insert kit comes in the box instead: inserts sized to the woofer, the correct drill bit, 2.5 inch allen-head screws, an allen key and woofer gasket tape. You set the inserts when you mount the woofer, and this box ships with one kit.

Yes, at 29 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 American Bass ES 10 at 86 percent of its usable travel at 600 W.

Not one we can show you. We do not build a sealed enclosure for the American Bass ES 10 and American Bass publish no sealed volume for it, 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 29 Hz subsonic filter takes over; around 36.5 Hz the vent carries the load and cone travel drops to its minimum, which no sealed alignment can do.

It is a vertical slot beside the woofer, the full height of the cavity, 1.50 inches wide and 18.8 square inches. It runs 5.25 inches to the back wall and turns once along it for 17.98 inches; the fold costs about 1.5 Hz and the port is cut for it. The channel runs at 20.5 metres per second at 600 W, 54 percent of its turbulence limit, and the mouth edges carry a 1/2 inch roundover so the air leaves the face at 11.4 metres per second against the 17 metres per second threshold where a slot starts to chuff.

45 lb, 30.00" W x 14.00" H x 10.50" D external. Every Professional cabinet is priced the same way, by its size: this one is 2.55 cubic feet outside. Delivery to the 48 states is inside the price; it ships as a 45 lb parcel and checkout adds nothing. Do not add polyfill; it ships dry on purpose.

No. This is an enclosure only, cut for the American Bass ES 10 specifically: the 9.250 inch cutout, the 3.660 inch mounting depth allowance and the 1.06 cubic foot alignment all come from American Bass's published parameters. It fits both coil versions; the alignment published here is the D2. Bring your own driver.