what do you guys think should i get 2 10/12(not sure which yet) inch subs in a box in the trunk?, or get two 10/8 inch bazooka tube subes? the bazooka tube would come through the back pannel behind the seats but mounted flush so im not sure what will sound better? because bazookas will be exposed and box will just be concealed in trunk???????
I would probably go with bazooka's or one of the under seat pre-boxed subs. Size is not the only criteria like it used to be. Some of the best "punch" can come in small packages. Check out: www.crutchfield.com
thanks! but do you think that they will sound bbetter being expost but smaller or consealed but bigger?
It all depends on many factors. Head unit, amps, size of speakers, etc. For what it is worth....you really don't HEAR a sub....you feel it. That is why my sub is in the trunk facing the "wrong way".
Why anyone would want to feel the bass in an old car that had little to no sound deadening is beyond me. I find it annoying, but everyone in my age group seems to love it
The most important thing is to decide if you want sound quality or shear volume. The enclosure needs to be the right size for the perticular sub. I have a single 10 in Digital Designs sub in a ported box with 500 quality watts that comes it at 135 decibels. My buddy has 2 JBL 13 subs with 1600 watts in a one size fits all box that comes in at 127 decibels. It's a huge difference in the sound, we have the same trucks even. Decide what type of bass you want, low for hip hop type stuff will do good in a properly ported box,ported boxes are by design bigger than sealed. For rock, country of for shear quality go for a sealed box, still has to be sized properly. Also when getting and amplifier there is a reason that the house brand amp puts down 1000 watts for only 99 bucks and the alpine 1000 watt is 400.
I am running the sub stictly off of the head unit. 50 watts x 4 if I remember correctly. I think it sounds pretty good. Definitly know it is back there.
do you think if i were to put subs in the trunk, and since the back seat armrest panel go to trunk drill big hole in it and put a metal cage over it and the bass can travel through?
Again....you don't HEAR the bass.....you FEEL it. I see absolutly no need to cut holes in anything. My low powered sub THUMPS my car just fine.
This is not true at all, you do feel it but most of the sound is heard. Did you end up finding something?
MOST of bass is felt. There is an entire portion of the sound spectrem on both ends that the human ear can not hear.
I play bass guitar in a band. There is a school of thought for bass equipment in the past few years that has gained ground ... A cabinet with 4 10" speakers moves more air and has a much tighter response than 2 15s. More punch with the smaller ones, the large ones tend to sound muddier. This thinking can carry over to cars as well. I would go with Craig's thinking here. Get the sub in the trunk ... don't worry about porting a side panel. Get some speakers in the rear deck in the stock location ... they do the bulk of the work, and with a sealed trunk as "the box", you might be surprised how well it works. Tweeters in the front, and call it done. My system in the Comet screams, and it doesn't have a sub. Clean amps, 50 watts to the front (balanced way down) ... 100 watts to a pair of good 6x9s, and it is all pretty well hidden. It doesn't thump, but it is really clean and accurate ... most of what I listen to is good guitar stuff. I have a similar system in my daily driver Explorer, and with the added cabin area, I also have have a 10 inch sub ... it is appreciated there, and does really round out the sound.... but neither would be a system for playing rap music on. After all the guitar playing, listening to stereo at too-high sound levels, hanging around race tracks, and using power tools ... gotta' say, take care of your ears. If your ears start to ring all the time ... you are too late, and will be cursed with that from that point on. My right ear has a little fuzz to it now, courtesy of my last band, and I used ear protection there. I use it with the current band too, and we are pretty tame compared to my other band. Damage is cumulative ... it just adds up over time. No going back ....
