Kevin Murray
April 17th 04, 01:57 AM
Are you saying that you can resolve the origin of wavelengths below 50Hz?
Furthermore, not everyone can afford a Mercedes where the trunk is acoustically
isolated from the interior of the car. Most cars owned by contributors to this
NG pass bass notes into the passenger cabin quite easily.
For the money you paid for your subwoofer installation I could pay for my entire
system all over again. Passengers in my car remark that the bass "makes their
hair move". If you can't sit in the car then what good is your stupendous
output?
Kevin Murray
"FM modulators rule"
"Gettin' the hang of this NG posting stuff"
"Peter Klein" > wrote in message
news:QyVfc.4731$0b4.14100@attbi_s51...
> If you really believe that firing a pair of subwoofers toward the rear of
> your car's trunk will give you deep, tight, bass INSIDE your car, then you
> must be sitting in the car following you. Most car stereo stores push sealed
> boxes when a cutomer buys two woofers. The sealed boxes are the most
> profitable and the easiest for the salesperson to sell. If one contacts the
> maker (supplier) of the brand woofer, they are willing to share the
> information about different style enclosures for their product. For my 124,
> I wanted the bass to be delivered into the interior of the car and I didn't
> want to give up the entire trunk. Because Mercedes has spent huge
> engineering dollars keeping outside noise outside, I was interested when the
> box builder suggested a bandpass enclosure with a partially external, square
> (so it won't whistle like round ports) port which would exit from the top of
> the box. Because the 124 trunk has funky shaped sides, and the height is
> fixed, the variable measurement was the front to rear depth. That shape
> would put the port directly below the "first aid kit cover". When measuring,
> we noticed the gas filler pipe would prevent the box from being pushed back
> all the way so the rear, top corner of the box was deleted. A single
> Cerwin-Vega! 12" Accurate Image Subwoofer was chosen per their box design
> specs. This woofer's voice coil was designed by the same German design house
> who later did JL's component speakers. After the box was built, it was
> upholstered in black carpet to match the floor I had put in the trunk. The
> bass is driven by an Earthquake 200X amp which provides 300wrms @ 4 ohms
> mono. At full attenuation the bass is so huge, the windows flex and nobody
> can talk! I keep it turned down to a hi fidelity level. The picture shows
> the sub spanning the width of the trunk, and the "bin cover" part of the
> floor on a continuous hinge from Home Depot. P.
>
>
>
Furthermore, not everyone can afford a Mercedes where the trunk is acoustically
isolated from the interior of the car. Most cars owned by contributors to this
NG pass bass notes into the passenger cabin quite easily.
For the money you paid for your subwoofer installation I could pay for my entire
system all over again. Passengers in my car remark that the bass "makes their
hair move". If you can't sit in the car then what good is your stupendous
output?
Kevin Murray
"FM modulators rule"
"Gettin' the hang of this NG posting stuff"
"Peter Klein" > wrote in message
news:QyVfc.4731$0b4.14100@attbi_s51...
> If you really believe that firing a pair of subwoofers toward the rear of
> your car's trunk will give you deep, tight, bass INSIDE your car, then you
> must be sitting in the car following you. Most car stereo stores push sealed
> boxes when a cutomer buys two woofers. The sealed boxes are the most
> profitable and the easiest for the salesperson to sell. If one contacts the
> maker (supplier) of the brand woofer, they are willing to share the
> information about different style enclosures for their product. For my 124,
> I wanted the bass to be delivered into the interior of the car and I didn't
> want to give up the entire trunk. Because Mercedes has spent huge
> engineering dollars keeping outside noise outside, I was interested when the
> box builder suggested a bandpass enclosure with a partially external, square
> (so it won't whistle like round ports) port which would exit from the top of
> the box. Because the 124 trunk has funky shaped sides, and the height is
> fixed, the variable measurement was the front to rear depth. That shape
> would put the port directly below the "first aid kit cover". When measuring,
> we noticed the gas filler pipe would prevent the box from being pushed back
> all the way so the rear, top corner of the box was deleted. A single
> Cerwin-Vega! 12" Accurate Image Subwoofer was chosen per their box design
> specs. This woofer's voice coil was designed by the same German design house
> who later did JL's component speakers. After the box was built, it was
> upholstered in black carpet to match the floor I had put in the trunk. The
> bass is driven by an Earthquake 200X amp which provides 300wrms @ 4 ohms
> mono. At full attenuation the bass is so huge, the windows flex and nobody
> can talk! I keep it turned down to a hi fidelity level. The picture shows
> the sub spanning the width of the trunk, and the "bin cover" part of the
> floor on a continuous hinge from Home Depot. P.
>
>
>