Question of the day: What was the first subwoofer that you heard that made you fall in love with BASS?

[BassNewb]

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[ALPINE408]

back in the 90's JL Audio W6 with art series PPI amps

if you had that in the mid 90's you were the shit period

[Christopher Cleveland]

When I was like 13 alot of the older neighborhood kids were bumpin, one had a red Mazda mx3 hatchback w/ 2-12 mtx thunder 8000s, the shiny aluminum looking ones. Don't know what he had for an amp. He'd always come through bumpin "get low" by yin yang twins. Another dude had a red 77 ford Granada 2 door w/ a white top on some spokes with 2-12 sony explodes, the old round red ones. His trunk rattled a lot but I thought that shit was cool as hell haha I liked that car a lot. That was the first car I heard subs from the inside. And to me at 12-13 I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Another dude had a black 96 caddy Eldo on some 20s with a 15 solo baric l5, the black colored ones when they first came out with the square cone, with the kx600 pushing it. A couple years later he fried the tinsel leads and I bought it for 25 bucks and jerry rigged them with some speaker wire and that was my first sub on some Pyle or profile pos amp haha. The first "real loud" system I heard was 3-15 kicker cvrs in a Tahoe around the same time, I remember you could hear that dude BUMPIN a long ways away. It'd shake my parents living room windows when he came by. Another guy had a white mid 80s monte also on spokes with a bra on the front and he'd always creep through with his parking lights on bumpin missy Elliot- get your freak on, that was really loud too, don't know for sure what he had, like 3 12s or something. Another guy had an old brown range rover pos with 3-10 alpine type r when those came out, another dude had like a 95 v6 mustang with a flip out screen deck and a ps2 w/ 2-10 bazooka p miller subs and some bazooka amp, which that system seemed to knock pretty good too. All these guys lived within like 3 or 4 blocks and they were all around during the same era, there was always someone coming by beating up the block. That was that neighborhoods hayday a lotta weekend house parties and shit going on in my neighborhood in the early 2000s. Then I was absolutely fascinated and hooked since. Lots of people in my neighborhood were bumpin. Lotta teenagers living around there when I was growing up. Now days it's pretty quiet. A lot of retired ppl living around there now. Long post, I know. But that's my story of what got me hooked.

Edited April 1, 2016 by Christopher Cleveland

[rockFord_Expedition]

The guys driving by in Blazers, Broncos, and mini trucks. Never knew what they were pushing. I took a single home audio cabinet, had a 12 a mid and a tweeter in it and hooked it up off of deck power in my 93 Nissan Altima (stanza) . First "real" car audio I had was 2 JBL 12's in a pre fab box on a kicker 300 watt amp. I swore it was the loudest system, ever lol. Wish I knew the models of everything.

[Eric Bascetta]

The ProTech cast 12's ported, they sounded so smooth and got pretty loud.

[Daniel644]

I had a buddy that had a triple MTX 10" setup, that was one of the first that I can remember hearing,(but that was like 16ish years ago. but even by then I had already gotten started with BASS in my own car before then, my brother had a bass tube in his 94 Silverado and we put a bigger sub in that truck till I started driving and put some cheap crap in my first truck, but I would say it was the Triple MTX setup that really inspired me to get better stuff.

and the CD that did it was Kilo Ali's "Organized Bass".

Edited April 1, 2016 by Daniel644

[baller95]

Alpine Type R back in 2005. I've heard bass from random vehicles driving by and liked it but the Type R was the first vehicle I got into.

[lamsv]

A pair of Rockford Fosgate Series 1 12's in an Obcon bandpass box, pushed with a Punch 100. 1994 or so? First time I understood what the fuss was about DJ Magic Mike CD's.

[rockFord_Expedition]

A pair of Rockford Fosgate Series 1 12's in an Obcon bandpass box, pushed with a Punch 100. 1994 or so? First time I understood what the fuss was about DJ Magic Mike CD's.

Ha! I remember a period when I thought there was nothing better than an Obcon box. Always wanted one of their bandpass boxes in my trunk, but they were out of my budget lol.

[Ben5]

1990, a cousin got an old VW Bug that had a pair of 15" Alpines in place of the back seat. Other than 6.5's in the door, I don't remember any other specifics. It was the coolest thing that I had seen to that point.

Banned in the U.S.A. and Lower the dynamite...

1994. My first system, 1988 Escort, 2 15" Series 1 RF (svc 4 ohm with the gray cones in a slanted sealed box that filled the hatch) on a 600 watt 2 channel Power Acoustic. 6.5 3-way Kenwoods and Sony 3-way 6x9 on a Panasonic CD. Stinger wire.

Added to it a 4 channel 600 watt PA for the mids/highs and a Profile crossover.

I thought of it as a kinda sleeper of sorts. Plain white 88 Escort with only a CD player visible.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Ben5