Okay, I just sat in my buddies car and heard his Phoenix Gold 12". Apparently it can take almost 1500 peak watts, but my friend only had a 500 watt amp for it. It baaangs for 45hz-60hz. The enclosure looked about 1.2 cu ft.
So my question is, I'm kind of a newbie, do all subs really only hit the higher notes better? I have a Logitech z-2300 which is a piddly 8 inch 120 watt driver but it's decent enough. One thing I noticed though in his car was that within the 29-36 hz range it was only about twice as loud as my subwoofer. The song that hits the hardest on his sub is the 51hz note in Welcome to City by Drumsquad.
Is there any subwoofer that is very high quality and hits hard in the lows, mids and highs? What about speakers and tweeters? I read that these are just as important. I want to hear everything in the song, blaring lows and highs, and I actually want to understand the lyrics which I couldn't in my friends' car.
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=293-666
I was looking at that one, but I think 1 grand for a sub alone is too much. Is there....something like that I could buy under 1 grand for enclosure+sub? I don't even think I could fit 1 18 in the back of my civic coupe. This isn't even including tweeters or speakers.
Also, I love the lows at my house, but the highs feel much better and I thought I'd hate them. Makes your chest and everything around you vibrate. Is there a way to make the lows sound like a huge earthquake? I'm talking songs like Soul Survivor and White Girl.
Sorry if I sound stupid! I just don't know where to start so I figured I'd drop by here!