Frog~ Thanks for the recomendation. Still not sure what way i'm going. From the pics you sent me, is yours facing towards the passengers feet? How hard does it hit?
I want some nice feeling bass, right now my RT/10 with a new Alpine headunit and all focal speakers hasvery little bass but sounds really good and clear. I'm hoping by adding this footwell sub it will complete the total sound and make me happy.
I want to feel the bass!
No, mine is NOT facing the passenger's feet. I directed mine towards the motor and it allowed the bass to bounce around in the footwell area between the box and footwell. Then the bass would come around the box and up towards the passanger. The passenger REALLY felt the bass hit, but I could too as the driver. It was something that a few cars in front of me would hear at a stoplight. At a car show, I could open the doors, pop in a DVD and it sounded like a showcar with a nice complete system in it. You can feel the bass indeed. Through experimenting over the years, I have found that when you face a speaker in a way it can bounce off something, weather it be a hatchback or a trunk, the bass usually sounds BETTER in the cabin of the car. When the woofer is pointing directly at you, you hear more cone movement and not as much bass.
Trust me, I have had MANY systems over the years and just had a setup with an 18" sub in my daily driven Mustang. I just went to two 12" because I blew the 18" and hit 133Db's on two 12's with a low powered 400 watt system. When it comes to feeling bass, I have done enough experiments to set something up so people hear it. I have been through many other systems throughout the years like, two-18" speaker setups, four-15's, two-15's and two-18's, four 12's, etc.... I REALLY hate how my Viper is limited, but I found a way to get the best bass for the room with my DVC 8" sub. I'm not trying to say I know everything about systems, but with the near 100 speaker enclosures I have built and all the expreiments over the years, I found how to make things work at their maximum potiental.
Here's my recient 18" setup. Notice how it is not facing the driver, but bounces around in the trunk first.
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