I'll list my setup and tell you what happens, perhaps you can explain why
this is so.
I have 2 Infinity Reference 10"s in a sealed box, powered by an RF 500s.
They were facing the front of my car ('96 Ford Escort LX hatchback). Now I
barely got any "thump", nothing rattled and it sounded nothing more than
glorfied mid-range. You could barely feel anything. So I decided to turn
them around and I ended up with the good mid-range, but also the low-range I
wanted, I could feel it in the mid of my back, back of my head, and my feet,
also bass distorted my vision in the rear view mirror which it did not
before. Now I have all kinds of bass inside the car, until the hatch is
opened, then it all just goes away. Can you explain this to me?

"Nousaine" wrote in message
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"Luke Hague" wrote:

I guess you didn't read Nousaine's post, which was what I was replying
too,
which is in this thread.

While I'm at it let me dispell another Urban Legend. Do you get more bass
with
the hatch open? Only outside the car.

Inside you get significantly less. Why? You lose the cabin gain transfer
function effect whre the driver displacement pressurizes the interior at
low
frequencies delivering 12 dB/octave reinforcement as frequency falls below
the
lowest mode which occurs at 60 Hz in a small car.

How about the trunk? Sometimes not an issue because the trunk itself is a
large
enough 'enclosure' to work with any woofer if it's an IB. If it's an IB,
sealed
or ported enclosure and the wall separating the cabin and the trunk isn't
perfectly sealed you'll often lose transfer function gain as well.