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(More customer reviews)I decided to take a gamble on this enclosure recently due to accidentally damaging the terminal cup on my sealed enclosure. The enclosure I replaced was a Scosche Se12 (also purchased from Amazon) with 1.25 cu ft sealed footprint.
Initial thoughts on this box is that the quality of workmanship happened to be shoddy. The corners at the bottom of the enclosure had the carpet already close to being worn off and exposing the MDF. The terminal cup appeared to be so tightly screwed and rapidly thrown in there that none of the screws were actually flush. All of the inside seams had sealed beading, but they were not uniform in any way. Some had too much sealant and some had too little. One of the corners had an excess of sealant in an attempt to mask an exposed staple. It ended up making that one spot look bad.
The packaging was basically this enclosure in a cardboard box. The packaging on the Scosche enclosure had much more care involved - it was placed inside of two boxes, had the company's logo on a paper that was taped to the enclosure itself and then wrapped in plastic to make sure the carpet wasn't damaged.
The Atrend enclosure itself was pretty basic -- no polyfill used on the interior, no internal pre-wiring. The Se12 had everything included to wire your speaker up immediately -- including Polyfill applied to the interior of the enclosure and pre-wiring already set up on the inside of the terminal cups. The pre-wiring may be a good or bad thing, depending on personal preference. In my case, I didn't mind cutting some new monster cable speaker wire and wiring it up myself. It made me absolutely sure I was using high quality thick-gauge speaker wire. Having to cut, crimp and wire everything ended up adding to the time needed to change out my subwoofer though.
This Atrend happens to be 2.00 sq ft ported, which sits perfectly with my Soundstream T5-12. Their recommended enclosure size for ported applications happened to be 2.00 sq ft exactly.
Once everything was mounted I was impressed with the sound quality and output of this enclosure. It's performance definitely bumped it up a star on my review. With the same receiver, amp and power settings this enclosure definitely cleaned up sound. It's inherent efficiency over a sealed enclosure provided more output; all things being equal. My ratings are below:
Sound Quality: 4/5
Efficiency: 4/5
Value: 3/5
Craftsmanship: 2/5
Appearance: 3/5
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