I'm kind of a noob when it comes to car audio (my dad did everything), and I have a few questions. In my truck (2000 Chevrolet Silverado LT, ext cab) I have a ported Fox Box with two Memphis 10'' subs under my back seat. I have some nice Alpine speakers in all of the doors and they sound great. One of the most balanced car audio systems I have ever experienced. However, I want more bass! Everything is hooked up to a Memphis amp, I think it's like 150 watts per channel or something like that, not sure what that means (it was free, found it in the attic). So I was thinking a more powerful amp would get more out of my subs? I can't fit anything bigger, and taking my back seats out is not an option. What do you guys think?
I agree. Digital Designs is your answer my friend. There is not a better subwoofer on the market then the Digital Designs z series and the quality is mirrored in their smaller speakers and amps.
Get yourself an amp that runs 2ohms 600watts RMS. 1ohm 1200watts RMS is the same and as long as it's not a pos walmart amp your fine. Use only pure or tinned copper 4 (or bigger) gauge wire to power the amp and you should not need a capacitor.
But if you reeaallly want alot of bass go 3500 with m3b that's probably pushing 115 db of bass while the 2500 is around 95db depending on enclosure.
The DD 3500 series is what I use and it is definitely capable of severe hearing damage. They do come in 10" at 34lbs capable of handling 4800w yeah... 4800w. But they run at 600-1200w RMS. A 600w amp can not break these but it will power them to the point where the sub is comfortable and it's so loud I personally have to say "that's enough, not to much but... enough"
To be honest the DD 2500 will probably do the trick for you and be a good match for a 600w rms 2ohm amp but I would not go any lighter on the amp. All in all I recommend 2 10" dd 2500s and the m2b amp by dd. And make sure your power cable is good. I blew 5 subs before I learned that you can actually blow subs with a bad amp to battery wire.
Damn they aren't cheap though! Haha. These will probably have to wait until I get a job lol.
They are a lil pricey but you get what you pay for and they will probably live longer then you will lol.... If I had a dollar for every blown fosgate...
I'm sorry Royalblunts, but you are getting suckered by the "pure copper". Just get some decent wire, and a reliable bridgeable amp. Can't really go wrong with Rockford Fosgate, or any other reputeable brand. I went through a cheapo 1000 watt amp, it literally fried on me (but goddamn did it sound clean). Buy quality. Ended up buying a 1500 watt Boss off of a co-worker after that. Took a little tuning to kill that overdriven sound.
You can hook two speakers up to a single channel amp, but you better make sure those connections are solid. Things can go wrong.
i would say put 2 rockford p3 subs in a case with the correct dimensions, and connect them to a nice rockford monoblock.
If you want powerfull bass get rockford, its awesome.
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Well my box is a box specifically designed for my truck. It's the only box that fits under my back seat.
Well this is all a lot to soak in... I need to do some more research. Btw your image link is broken.
So I'm thinking I may need a new receiver as well, as mine has very little tuning options. It's some cheapo Panasonic thing I also had in the attic. However, I'm getting some motor work done first.
My truck is already rear leveled, with factory 20"s (like these but not replicas http://goo.gl/bhCqv8), 5.3L, and Catless Flowmaster duals turned down before the rear axle. Getting it either cammed or blown in the next month or so and it needs a new tune. So once that's done I will shift my focus to the sound system. I love this truck, I'm the second owner, bought from some old man, garage-kept, 130k miles (: I will have to throw some pics up once I get the chance to detail it. Louisiana weather is awful. Would love to see some more car discussion on the forums.
I'm an electrician I know the theory. Aluminum wire and cca is bullshit but use it if you must. Just re strip and tighten your terminals every month and get a few gauge sizes bigger because it has a lower ampacity also deox all your connections.
Or you know. Use real copper. I'm not saying buy $1000 dollar wire I'm just saying make sure you get pure copper not copper clad aluminium. Notice I didn't say oxygen free? Besides all copper is oxygen free otherwise you got copper oxide.... I know the gimicks.
Rockford was the best sub a few years ago but now some private brands have rising up and MTX and DD seem to be dominating the compititions.
Trucks are kind of limited with space, you don't need low profile subs do you?
rofl. rice truck.
Haven't seen much aluminum wire except in mobile homes. You had me worried for a second, I'm not sure how necessary deox is, but I guess that may help depending on the enviroment. Although I think you are suggesting that for the aluminum.
Hopefully you find what you want. I have a 10" in a homemade box. I'm pretty cramped for space, I got it in the back of my ranger (extended cab). Sounds great for the space, I don't think I would need anything bigger. That, and I have my doubts about a 12" keeping up with the double bass.
ahh a common miss conception not all 12's suck for double bass. for instance my adire audio 12 does suck for the upper end extended bass notes but it wants to rip your chest apart sub 30Hz, and that's because of the motor structure, while i have an old school power bass xtreme sub from around 2003 with the chrome basket not the black basket model, which sounds amazing with metal pop or any thing that focuses on the 40Hz+ or fast double bass from the bands like dimmu borgir or dream theater (old drummer mike portnoy) this also has to do with how your box is built and if it's ported what the freq of the port is tuned too. every thing needs to work together and you need to know the characteristics of the subs you are working with.
can you give me the specs of your box? or if it's a pre fab box maybe a link to who made it? i'll see if i can come up with any thing at a resnable price for you. also what area are you located?
yeah i still don't know how to work photobucket, i'm not sure what link to post from the site. or should i use a different image hosting site? i'm open to suggestions. here is another link to try.
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t653/sconner1467/nexus7car_zps8c7a155b.jpg
You have to be careful. A lot of wire companies sell cca or copper clad aluminium. It sucks like I said in my post I was blowing subs because of it.
Yeah lol a factory truck that will soon either be cammed or supercharged is "riced" lol.
Which headunit do you have by the way? good quality sound is also depending on the quality of your headunit, especialy the voltage of the amp output´s is an important factor on a headunit, also the filter options on the headunit is an important thing.
Quality headunits from Alpine or pioneer have mostly 4Volts amp outputs. And good filter options for each output. so you don´t need any kind of hardware filtering at all. to let them play on the frequancy that you like.
Cheap headunits dont have those options and decent outputs, if you trow a very powerfull amp on those cheap things, they mostly fail. if the amp asks to much juice from the headunit.
I would say upgrade your headunit first to a decent Alpine or Pioneer, look specialy to 4volts rca outputs, if you do setup the settings on the headunit right, i will bet you realy notice a hughe diffrence in sound quality and bass.