Speaker Box Lite

I was stoked about this app and happy to pay $6/ month until I realized how badly it was butchering my designs. What sold me was the fact you can search a driver and it fills out the TS parameters for you, until I realized that more than half of the parameters are always WAY off. Enough for it to tell me that my ported box should be tuned to 36 cubic feet instead of 2.5. Completely defeats the purpose of the app. It will also change parameters on you seemingly randomly, so you constantly have to bounce around and check everything, wasting time having to reference the specs for the driver you’re designing for. I definitely don’t trust anything this app spits out and wouldn’t recommend going near it with a 10’ pole until they fix all of the bugs/ incorrect formulas.

This is a very useful app. Much more than anything currently out there on a Mac platform. The $5 fee to check it out isn’t bad, but I have a problem with not owning my tools. I would pay a good amount for this to be purchased then maybe subscribe to their speaker database. Otherwise I’m going to use it this one month and then probably wait around to see if any other programs pop up before I need it again. Maybe that model works for some but you’re leaving money on the table from me.

I could see paying once and being able to use it but the subscription is ridiculous! I subbed twice and got little use out of it. The cut sheet also shapes it oddly. It would be a lot more user friendly if it calculated cuts as perfect rectangles instead of making us do L shaped cuts. Not everyone has the tools or workspace for this. Even when I lived in a home with a garage, my tools were limited and getting perfect cuts wasn’t easy. Home Depot did the crucial rectangle cuts and I just had to sand a bit at times. I don’t want odd shapes. Paying monthly to be able to use the app is not worthwhile. Ultimatecaraudioapp is light years ahead of speakerboxlite... the cut sheets aren’t as in-depth as far as the port cuts, but it is still much better than this app.