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  1. Have you tried different sub positioning? If you can get that "violent zone" up on that dash it'll be good on the meter

    Lol if I was going for numbers this car would have to be walled. I have tried different subs in different positions, but firing back always seems to sound best. Getting a 150 out of the trunk of a grand marquis would take some serious spl voodoo. I am getting a truck or SUV soon that will be easier to get loud.

  2. Sealing off the trunk would be very difficult in this car, especially with 15s. You would have to do some sort of bandpas or something. I don't know if you guys have seen a crown vic/grand marquis trunk, but there is a huge gas tank hump. the pass thru to the cabin is only like 10 inches tall, and the seats don't fold down, so I don't think firing forward is an option. It sounds decent the way it is. Cancellation seems like it makes sense for what I am experiencing.

  3. It sounds like your experiencing some noise cancellation in the sound waves. When your in the back seat I'm guessing that the location of your ears are in a better spot where the sound waves actually constructively interfere with each other causing a louder and more violent bass. In the front seat the difference in location can be causing the waves to be destructive interfering where they might be close to 180 degrees out of phase. And when the windows are down that can change the wavelength tremendously. Just my idea

    That actually makes a lot of sense, i didn't think about cancellation. The waves could be bouncing back and creating a "dead spot" up front when the windows are up. It is extra noticable on the lows. Also, the car itself has some funky acoustics I think (weird trunk design and pass thru to the cabin. Higher bass seems to come in the cabin along the roof, low bass seems to come up from the floor). My gf has a camry with 2 12's and it sounds about the same everywhere in the car windows up or down.

  4. Hey everyone, I just had a question about windows up/down. I have a 2001 grand marquis with 2 15's sub/port to the rear. When in the front seat, the bass is loudest with the windows down. I generally understand that the window acts like a port, and I can feel the "pressure zone" when I put my head by the window.

    The other day when I let my buddy drive, I was sitting in the back, I noticed that when all the windows are up, the backseat gets much more violent. It is half as loud in the front sealed up and twice as loud in the back. Why does this make the back seat so much louder.

    Also, the box is about 10 cubes (outside dimensions) so it takes up nearly the whole trunk. Don't know if this could be a variable or not.

    Anyone with some expertise in this area want to chime in? I was just wondering what the "techical" explanation of this would be.

  5. maybe just for testing, you could open a hole and get a crappy pvc tube externally hehe, i did that on a test and gained a huge lol, you are throwing the box to the garbage anyways so you could do something fun with it first

    That is a good thought, might as well experiment if its going to get chucked anyways! Maybe some 4 inch PVC?

  6. The speaker is in a 1 ft box, so it is within Rockford's specs, it just has that tiny sealed box sound which I am not fond of.

    This is what I found on the Rockford website. I hope that this woofer will work for a 4th order, I have built sealed and ported boxes before but I have been wanting to do a bandpass for a while.

    Sealed

    Vb (min.) 0.75 cu. ft.

    Vb 1.00 cu. ft.

    Vb (max.) 1.25 cu. ft.

    F3 41.5 Hz

    Qtc 0.762

    Height 14 in.

    Width 19.25 in.

    Depth 10 in.

    Spk. Cutout 11.25 in.

    Spk. Depth 6.75 in.

    Vd 0.094 cu. ft.

    Vented Enclosure

    Vb (min.) 1.50 cu. ft.

    Vb 1.79 cu. ft.

    Vb (max.) 2.10 cu. ft.

    Fb 40 Hz

    F3 32 Hz

    Height 14 in.

    Width 26.25 in.

    Depth 12 in.

    Np 1 port

    Dp 4 in. diameter

    Lp 10 in. long

    Spk. Cutout 11.25 in.

    Spk. Depth 6.75 in.

    Vd 0.094 cu. ft.

    Vp 0.073 cu. ft.

  7. I recently hooked up a system in my girlfriends car. Nothing major, its just an older punch 500-2 and a punch p3 12.

    The sub came in a tiny sealed box (bought it secondhand), and I can't stand the weak output it has (Its also got crap for low end). I know this woofer could do alot better in a proper box. I was just wondering if someone who has experience with bandpasses thinks this would be a decent speaker for a 4th order?

    If not, I will just build a regular ported box. Any suggestions?

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