Is this a no no?

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Ive been told bye some people that your not supposed to do this and ive seen proffesionals do it at car shows..

Having one sub sticking out of the box and having one going in the box

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[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

No.

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Its fine as long as you wire one sub out of phase.

 

[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

You can do it...not sure how it will sound though as I've never heard a setup with it...just wire one of the subs out of phase.

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

As long as the inverted sub has it's phase reversed, it's fine.

BTW, that pic you posted is a show display anyways.

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Its fine as long as you wire one sub out of phase.

What is "out of phase"?

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

What is "out of phase"?

Meaning you switch the positive and negative.

You hook up the amp positive to the subs negative, and the amps negative to the subs positive.

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Meaning you switch the positive and negative.
You hook up the amp positive to the subs negative, and the amps negative to the subs positive.

Exactly...

If you wire them both the same both subs will be pushing out when you are playing them. One pushing out will be going in the box and the other pushing out will be out of the box. This will cause them to cancel eachother out.

If you wire the one sticking out where it fires in reverse, both subs will be moving in the same direction (out of the box) and no cancellation will occure.

 

[creyc 10+ year member]

is that CES? It looks familiar..

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

is that CES? It looks familiar..

roger doger.

 

[billabongcr 5,000+ posts]

Exactly...
If you wire them both the same both subs will be pushing out when you are playing them. One pushing out will be going in the box and the other pushing out will be out of the box. This will cause them to cancel eachother out.

If you wire the one sticking out where it fires in reverse, both subs will be moving in the same direction (out of the box) and no cancellation will occure.

well said

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

cool i learned something new. Will i get the same Level of noise from a sub wired out of phase opposed to a normal wired sub?

 

[k3113y 10+ year member]

that's pretty much a personal opinion. i recently inverted my sub, and there's no sound difference as far as i can tell. some say it's louder. some say it's softer.

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

I like the look of one going in the box and one going out. I really wanna do one going out of the box because the GTI is a large sub and it looks pretty cool

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

cool i learned something new. Will i get the same Level of noise from a sub wired out of phase opposed to a normal wired sub?

what do you mean by noise?