2 15's civic install. lots of pics!

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

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[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

Front speakers?
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polk db 650's...

 

[Civic_boi334 10+ year member]

and i will go as far to say dont listen to this guy. somewhat he said is true. and sealed box more cone area may sound better to an certain point so dont go leading this guy down the wrong path. he may just go try to get 2 18" MTS one day putting them in 8 cubes sealed in his honda thinking he would be louder than using 2 10" BTLS ported. listen the facts remain and from experience and common sense. loook at it like this those 15s in his trunk is similar to you haveing an wall almost sealed off in an suv, BUT REAR FIRING! that wont be loud on the inside no would it?

indeed.

i have a 94 2dr. and i have 2 12's in a ported box and i do get loud. I had my box designed short so that i can move alot of air pressure into the cabin with my seat is dropped. Do you drop your seat??? I had my amps on the floorboard just like u (sweet), but i moved them to the back seat and pushed my sub box back towards the seat as if i was tryin to put it in the car( not all the way in the car) and i heard a bit of a difference from being on the trunk latch. Im only 19 and ive tried every way possible as in turing the box in the trunk. if you plan to get a box built, have it built to like 13 inches tall so that u can move a shitload of air, pm me and ill throw a few experience tips i can give about Civics tha you probably know ar dont know. ce n

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

so you have the subs facing toward the trunk, but the port firing toward the cabin?

will def let you know if i have any questions (trust me i will.. ahha) thanks!

 

[Civic_boi334 10+ year member]

both firing to trunk. I also changed my power and ground to 0/1 and got ****!!!, it made a huge diference. my back batt is not fully charged and is louder than it was fully charged! i have 2 12's and get LOW too. : ^ )

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

sounds awesome.. is your 2nd batt isolated?? or whatev that is..

 

[Civic_boi334 10+ year member]

nope. 1/0 ran to a fused distro block.

 

[tooloud4tv 10+ year member]

kid look. its not as simple as 'the amount of waves cant get to the front' deal. this is not water in a pipe you are dealing with. there is way more than you can imagine coming into play when talking about speaker\box size.
notice i was talking about going from a pair of sealed 15's to 12's. no mention did i make of ported boxes being louder, because in reality they should be, but you will loose sound quality - which to me is the most important part of a stereo.

the property you are having problems with is phase. not the size of your speakers or the box. when a speaker fires in a trunk, the wave bouncing off the rear wall, and other incident waves will reach the listener at different times causing cancellation and simply less authority. magically when the trunk opens up - somehow the bass gets stronger and yada yada.

you simply have no factual evidence that the 'speaker waves' are blocked by the box and have no personal experience to back up your claim. but this should enlighten you.

http://www.teamrocs.com/technical/pages/aiming.htm

its all about the install, not the equipment used kids. so listen to me, i am pretty sure ive been around the block a bit more than you.

sure... but i like how u just gonna say i have no personal experience with that. thats like u telling i dont know my own name. but ok MR. i gotcha

 

[tooloud4tv 10+ year member]

and ftr i wasnt refering to subwoofer sizes at all hell he could have had an box for 1 10 and if it was so big that i thought he would loose output then id still tell him. i never said just because he had 15s taht his box was too big. nor did i compare his sealed vs an ported.

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

is there any sort of "fix" as far as the phasing goes?? or is that a lost cause with such a big box

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

and if i were to get 12's ported, would it be better if had the enclosure allthe way up against the seats? or can i can the eclosure in the same position?

 

[t-money 10+ year member]

kid look. its not as simple as 'the amount of waves cant get to the front' deal. this is not water in a pipe you are dealing with. there is way more than you can imagine coming into play when talking about speaker\box size.
notice i was talking about going from a pair of sealed 15's to 12's. no mention did i make of ported boxes being louder, because in reality they should be, but you will loose sound quality - which to me is the most important part of a stereo.

the property you are having problems with is phase. not the size of your speakers or the box. when a speaker fires in a trunk, the wave bouncing off the rear wall, and other incident waves will reach the listener at different times causing cancellation and simply less authority. magically when the trunk opens up - somehow the bass gets stronger and yada yada.

you simply have no factual evidence that the 'speaker waves' are blocked by the box and have no personal experience to back up your claim. but this should enlighten you.

http://www.teamrocs.com/technical/pages/aiming.htm

its all about the install, not the equipment used kids. so listen to me, i am pretty sure ive been around the block a bit more than you.

i agree with you 100%. First off, look at the pic showing the box in the trunk. There is way more than enough room for air to pass to get into the front. If the box was totally blocking the whole passage, then i might agree with tooloudfortv but even then you'd be surprised how air can get into the cabin. My system is louder with my back seats down, but even when they're up it gets loud as f**k(to me).. However hes has plenty of room for air to pass, more than i do if i may add and i have two 15's in the trunk of my accord. My system is loud as f**K (to me)without missing a beat. OP your system is fine the way it is, just tune it.

p.s. I had to make a decision between two 12's ported or two 15's sealed(same brand) and i chose 15's sealed. Oh yeah my box is sealed as well for my 15's

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

tune it?

what all are you running?

you are the first to say that everything is alright..

 

[t-money 10+ year member]

tune it?
what all are you running?

you are the first to say that everything is alright..

if you believe your not getting all the frequencies than readjust the crossovers. You'd be surprised on the difference a system can sound with the crossovers adjusted properly. Where do you have your subs crossed? where do you have your components crossed?

edit: i have the same head unit as you. Are you using the sub out? If so do you have the sub out at 15?

 

[Civic96Lx 10+ year member]

if you believe your not getting all the frequencies than readjust the crossovers. You'd be surprised on the difference a system can sound with the crossovers adjusted properly. Where do you have your subs crossed? where do you have your components crossed?
edit: i have the same head unit as you. Are you using the sub out? If so do you have the sub out at 15?

have not touch head unit cross overs.. sub out: yes, at either 13 or 14..