Bass inside the car, not outside.

[talnlnky]

Originally Posted by skigil

I noticed that since my sub is in where the spare tire used to be (and is facing up), most of the bass stays within the car. The bass can be nice and loud inside the car, but you can barely here it outside the car. It's either the positioning, or the fact that my enclosure needs to be redone in MDF (I did it out of some old 3/4" plywood I had laying around).

Does anyone have thoughts on this?

WOW.... i really can't believe you are complaining.... You've got bass to yourself... and minimal leakage out to the rest of the world... thats near perfect. You're not pissing people off... you're not giving car stereo too bad of a name.... and you want it more outside...


Roll down your windows, fold down your seat, or pop the trunk/hatch. Tho if you did that around me... i'd prolly cut you off and drive 5mph in front of you.

If you want to seriously increase your volume there are basically only two ways to do it that are cost effective. Buying a bigger amp is not cost effective unless you are talking about a 500+rms sub and only have 100w on it.
1: remove any obstacles that are physically inbetween you and the sub (rear seats, Trunk cover if in a spare tire well). Allow that sub to breath!
2: Make a custom box for it that is designed to put higher levels of pressure on the cone. Higher the levels of pressure on the cone the higher the output will be. Ported boxes are awesome... Not all subs play nicely with ported boxes however... And not all ported boxes are designed to be nice to subs... the one found in stores usually are poorly designed.

if you go from sealed to a properly ported design.... you will hear sound outside your car... you will have more rattles... and your sound could be anywhere from 2-10dB louder depending on how you tune it... So go throw on some dynamat/fatmat/raammat cause you will start to annoy the world otherwise.