anyone have a system in their car or truck?
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Nope. The rumor is they are going to build one starting this year but they won't confirm it. There's a lot of big businesses that haven't been here til recently and a lot of that has a lot to do with the Thunder being here I think. It's the 7th fastest growing city in the nation which I kinda don't like but whatever. There's Sam's Club here and Wal-Mart Supercenters everywhere because Wal-Mart started in Arkansas.
Technically, low frequencies dont care about direction. Facing your speakers forward or backwards, in theory, should make no difference. Its the same debate about down-firing and front-firing HT subs: becuase low frequency waves are non directional, it doesn't matter which you use. The only "concern" is the down-firing subwoofer itself sagging, of which there is no proof of yet.
But hey, it may be different in a vehicle.
But hey, it may be different in a vehicle.
when i put mine in i put my subs in facing backwards and listened to them and then turned them around and listened to them again and left it facing forwards because it sounded better.
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I don't get how everyone has these systems without high output alternators. I killed like fuckin 6 alternators on my 85 hoopty pulling 500watts rms for four jl 8's. The stock alternator runs 120amps or something and that's for running everything. 500watts rms is a 40amp drain. Used 1/0 wires for the "big 3" upgrade. This kills the alternator lol. Finally got a 300amp alternator but by then I had to let the caddy go.
How could you pull 2000watts? Thats fucking impossible. Thats 166amps... your battery voltage will be dropping from the moment you turn that system on, and the alternator will be working so hard it will seize and die (had my tensioner straight snap and crack and bust off and the serpentine belt snapped and the alternator coil fused together once it was so hot lol).
So yea explain this shit to me cause I'm calling bullshit.. you're not truly pulling that much power, maybe 1/10th of that with clipping too. Unless you have like 6 batteries wired up in the trunk, its just impossible to output that many watts consistently
How could you pull 2000watts? Thats fucking impossible. Thats 166amps... your battery voltage will be dropping from the moment you turn that system on, and the alternator will be working so hard it will seize and die (had my tensioner straight snap and crack and bust off and the serpentine belt snapped and the alternator coil fused together once it was so hot lol).
So yea explain this shit to me cause I'm calling bullshit.. you're not truly pulling that much power, maybe 1/10th of that with clipping too. Unless you have like 6 batteries wired up in the trunk, its just impossible to output that many watts consistently
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The sound is still going to head in one direction or another, regardless. It still depends on which way the sub is facing and if the box is ported, that will dramatically change where the sound is headed. Depending on where you put the sub, you would be cancelling out the sound if the subs are facing towards each other.
You have somewhat of a point but it depends on the amp and also the vehicle. It depends on how efficient the equipment in your car is. For instance, I had a Zapco 350 Watt amp pushing 2 12" (round) Solo Barics running in parallel @ 4 Ohms. Head unit was running Alpine 6.5" components and MTX 6x9's. Never had any issues with the car shutting off. Car was a stock 1990 Cadillac Eldorado.
Same car, same everything, only difference was before this I had a cassette deck and the damn thing would shut off at a stop light all the time. This system was beatin outta control. It depends on the quality of the stuff you have. If it's a quality amp, it will almost never get hot if you're running the right type of subs for the amp. If it's crap, it's gonna shut down your stuff.
You should be able to read the specs on your amp and know about how much it's pulling.
Same car, same everything, only difference was before this I had a cassette deck and the damn thing would shut off at a stop light all the time. This system was beatin outta control. It depends on the quality of the stuff you have. If it's a quality amp, it will almost never get hot if you're running the right type of subs for the amp. If it's crap, it's gonna shut down your stuff.
You should be able to read the specs on your amp and know about how much it's pulling.
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I didn't word it very well lol What I meant is, a downfiring sub isn't going to sound as good in a trunk as it would in a house or cab of a truck (at least not in my experience). Same with what I said earlier, if the subs are pointing directly up at the glass in a hatchback, typically it will sound better in the car than if they were positioned in some other way. While the frequencies themselves may cause the sound to be less or totally non directional, the SOUND will still travel in a path of some sort depending on how they are positioned in the car.
You're right, but if the subs are enclosed in a box of some sort, the box will absorb some of the sound. So it would make sense to me that facing the subs towards backseats would sound a little better since there is no barrier (the box) between the seats and the sub.
Edit: I'm basing this off of my experience with live sound, but I think the same would apply to auto sound. I know standing on a stage behind stacks of subs I'll still feel a ton of bass but not as much as if I were standing in front of the stacks of subs in the crowd.
Edit: I'm basing this off of my experience with live sound, but I think the same would apply to auto sound. I know standing on a stage behind stacks of subs I'll still feel a ton of bass but not as much as if I were standing in front of the stacks of subs in the crowd.
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I wouldn't think that set up would cause that many issues personally. Might've had something else going on there. I work on Highway Patrol vehicles and there's a grip of electronics in there. I want to say they use a 160 amp alternator for the Dodge Chargers. I think there is actually an issue between the current draw on some of that stuff and what the alternator is rated for, but not enough to totally shut things down or blow fuses, but that's a long conversation.
As far as that particular car though, that doesn't sound like it should've been drawing that much current. I never had an issue in my 96 impala with the same set up I was talking about earlier or with 3 10" Audiobahns and a Kicker kx360.1 Amp. Some amps flat out draw more current than others though, even if they are rated the same in terms of output.
As far as that particular car though, that doesn't sound like it should've been drawing that much current. I never had an issue in my 96 impala with the same set up I was talking about earlier or with 3 10" Audiobahns and a Kicker kx360.1 Amp. Some amps flat out draw more current than others though, even if they are rated the same in terms of output.