Trying To Figure Out How Loud My Bass Is, But Have No Meter

[banginAltima]

Lets be nice now.

[MXmike800]

id like to get my truck metered gotta finda tl in chicago area

[Sniper]

this pic was before I moved the subwoofers to the closet, they sounded too quiet under the desk, they shook the desk good though.

proof the Bose speakers I have are indeed 201 series 2s.

and proof I have both the MTXs and 201s, the reason I didnt use the other cam for this is because that cam was stolen a few weeks ago.

They didnt get the subs because they werent in the open at that point. (you couldnt tell if I had em because of how they were hidden)

that be my sub amp and my highs amp, I dont have any pictures of the 550 plate amp yet, as of the fact its still shipping

Either way, haters be silenced.

[Sniper]

I heard Wes's system before, he has 8 12" JL w1v2 subwoofers in a wall (it was really just a big box, the front didnt cover all the way to the top of the inside), it was ported, he had it on a Power accoustik PA3000DB amplifier, he has 2 12" MXaudio subwoofers in the far back of the car in a black box, was a real big slot port, mouth was maybe 10"x10", anyway, he told me his scores were :

150.7 this year at the local event (New termlab, metered at the kick)

150.3 last year at the event. (he didnt say were this was metered)

he played the track "Feel the bass" by Magic Mike, and I can assure you, it pounded my fucking head in. His windshield was moving back and forth about a half-inch, he had Power Accoustik monitors in his head rests, I thought it was strange how they were facing forward, and that he had head-rest monitors in a walled car, his headunit was an Alpine 9886 (atleast I think thats what it was)

my ears hurt a ton when the bass kicked in, he did what Steve Meade does when he demos music to people, he keeps the knob all the way down until the people think "thats loud but it aint that loud", then he moves it up to half, when everything starts shakin' it hurts, amazingly I could hear his highs with his bass, the amount of air it pushed was unreal, you know that feeling you get if you hold your hand in front of a woofer thats kicking, you get that warm tingly feeling, when I demo'd his car the first time (really just him showing me the subs when I was over there throwing in a box order and buying some Super Cable (Super Sound by Saxon, its 6 gauge wire) for the MTXs, the second time I came down there I wasnt believing his number that he told me (realize this was about a week later), so, I come up to him in the shop (it was a week before my birthday, November 5th, I'd remember cause my girlfriend Sarah asked me out on that friday) and tell him, I want to hear this wagon, so, we get in the car, he tells me about the setup, he said he had 1 Kinetik HC2400 in the rear of the wagon, I couldnt see it cause he has a really dark tint, its just dark enough that you can make out MXaudio on the subs sitting in the back of the wagon, then he tells me about what he calls "drive-bys", he said he'll get in the turn lane next to somebody with the system turned down, as soon as theirs a greenlight, he flips his boost switch and pulls massive SPL, the person in the next car usually looks all around while sitting in their car trying to figure out whats going on, anyway, after we talked for the few minutes he said to me "you know at the end of the Bass the final frontier album that their is that long note at the end?", and I reply "no, I dont listen to that much magic mike, I've heard drop the bass by him though", to that he replies "well, its time to feel the bass", he cranks up his system at that moment, and I hear the thumps just from the start of the track, I could feel the opening of the track in my back, then the bass kicked in, the pure tone, maybe 50hz or something, but holy shit, made his windshield move, back felt like I was getting a massage, head started hurting, eardrums felt like they wanted to rip out of my head, not to mention everything in his center console was moving, his W1s appeared to be moving about an inch back and forth, I didnt bail though, cause I've been working with Water-jets and that type of stuff, it gets real loud, anyway, I listened to the rest of the track and loved it, it was just so damn loud, my friend Jason Craig then listened to it, See, my friend Jason has long hair, the right side of him where his hair was hanging down almost appeared to be lifted by the bass, it was so damn intense, the outside of his car (where I was standing) was STILL louder than my friend John's car (he has 2 MTX 7515-4s on a single Kenwood 1000w mono-block with an optima red-top as the starter)

if you doubt wes's car, go to Audiospecialists on 933 and get your ears blown out, tell him that Alex sent you.

[Sniper]

forgot to mention, that track steps down and gets deeper, the wild thing about that car was that when it stepped down, it only got louder

[Sniper]

and, here is the exact track, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bALk1POlEKU

[Charger]

looking at your sig i highly doubt it

x2

I have six 15s in my daily driver and it gets no pain on my ears at all, the vibrations going through your body and the air being forced from your lungs is far more painful than the ears. I guess my ears may have built up a tolerance to it (deafness)

[raytard]

it really all depends on the car and the subs and the tuning

ive sat in cars that do a 154 in a box and it hurt my ears terribly

then again ive sat in cars that do 160's that was just like vibration shaking you

i remember from healthclass that 140db is considered the pain threshold for most people, but there's obviously people out there who are half deaf and arent bothered by it, there are also sensitive people who cant stand 130

break out a meter and lets see what you do

[Sniper]

Raytard - Wish I had a meter x.x

Charger - as Raytard said, the threshold of pain starts at 140 and is different for most people, so my thereshold was reached around there.

[BenH]

150's are weak.