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<blockquote data-quote="blazian87" data-source="post: 8318803" data-attributes="member: 574798">It&#039;s really not as hard as you think.. Honestly I don&#039;t trust shops to tune my system.. They don&#039;t know the first thing about tuning and they will charge you an arm and a leg for it too.. I thought you were trying to save money so it wouldn&#039;t be a good option for you. If you don&#039;t wanna get caught up in the complications of a ported box, then just get a sealed box and you will for sure like how it sounds.. The only problem is it&#039;s not loud enough for most people.. If you care more about SQ and don&#039;t want the mumbo jumbo that comes with it.. Go with a sealed box, a bit on the bigger side and you&#039;ll have no problem.. Sealed boxes generally don&#039;t require subsonic filters so you can leave it off.. Just have to get your crossover to 80 or somewhere close to it. For the gain settings, everytime a shop done it for me in the past, they&#039;ve always done it by ear which is not the right way to do it. I doubt any of the shops you go will have a DD-1 or CC-1.. They will just guess just like you did..I just think you don&#039;t like a 35 hz ported box.. I don&#039;t either.. It&#039;s too peaky and not enough lows for me. It works for many people here though.. Do more research and look for some better SQ subs.. If you need some suggestions, give us a budget to work with..and there&#039;s no such thing as a perfectly tuned system.. It&#039;s all subjective.. One person&#039;s liking is not the same as another person.. There&#039;s only 2 ways to go, more on SQ side of things or SPL.. or the in-between.. That&#039;s where you have to decide what you want.. Don&#039;t just get expensive equipment and expect it to sound great because tuning is a big part of any system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blazian87, post: 8318803, member: 574798"] It's really not as hard as you think.. Honestly I don't trust shops to tune my system.. They don't know the first thing about tuning and they will charge you an arm and a leg for it too.. I thought you were trying to save money so it wouldn't be a good option for you. If you don't wanna get caught up in the complications of a ported box, then just get a sealed box and you will for sure like how it sounds.. The only problem is it's not loud enough for most people.. If you care more about SQ and don't want the mumbo jumbo that comes with it.. Go with a sealed box, a bit on the bigger side and you'll have no problem.. Sealed boxes generally don't require subsonic filters so you can leave it off.. Just have to get your crossover to 80 or somewhere close to it. For the gain settings, everytime a shop done it for me in the past, they've always done it by ear which is not the right way to do it. I doubt any of the shops you go will have a DD-1 or CC-1.. They will just guess just like you did.. I just think you don't like a 35 hz ported box.. I don't either.. It's too peaky and not enough lows for me. It works for many people here though.. Do more research and look for some better SQ subs.. If you need some suggestions, give us a budget to work with.. and there's no such thing as a perfectly tuned system.. It's all subjective.. One person's liking is not the same as another person.. There's only 2 ways to go, more on SQ side of things or SPL.. or the in-between.. That's where you have to decide what you want.. Don't just get expensive equipment and expect it to sound great because tuning is a big part of any system. [/QUOTE]

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