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Has anyone tried home theater subs in their car?
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<blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 8359473" data-attributes="member: 560148"><p>It's actually MUCH easier to get loud in a car than it is in any home. Cars are much smaller than any home and have cabin gain. Often a free 20db or more compared to the same setup in home, no amount of road noise makes up that difference. In a home, people rarely as loudly as they do in the car. They are watching movies which sound obnoxious played back as loudly as you'd play back a song. They are sitting with people in the home who are doing other things, they have neigbhors, etc. There simply isn't the need for playback to be as loud, even for music in MOST cases. (some people crank it up in the home on music tho lol)</p><p></p><p>Anyways home subs can work in a car. It really comes down to the sub in question, what it's response is like in a box that you can still fit in the car. It's a case by case thing so it's hard to make generalizations. One nice thing about many home audio subs is they tend to be for a more SQ oriented crowd and often have lower distortion.</p><p></p><p>As far as passive radiators go, they do work. My last setup in my SUV was a very powerful Pro audio 21inch woofer and 3 15inch passive radiators. In my old trunk setup, I had 2 15inch Acoustic Elegance subwoofers (a HT/music combo sub, works in either) and I used 4 passive radiators. Main advantage is you can get very low tuning out of a small box, since passives take up no space and the tuning is adjustable. I had a 5 cubic foot box tuned to 25hz in my trunk. If I were to do that with an adequately sized traditional port, by box would have been 7-8 cubes gross to be 5 cubes net and simply would never had fit in the trunk. Passives also don't have port resonance or noise to deal with, in a trunk setup that isn't important, but in something like a small truck, that can be great for SQ.</p><p></p><p>Anyways if you want to try passive radiators Parts express sells a couple different ones with variying levels of quality, depending how high power the speaker and build is. Creative sounds has 15inch passive radiators at a great value and those will keep up with very powerful car audio oriented woofers and output levels. Fixmyspeaker/PSI car audio also custom builds passives for car audio purposes, a bit more money than some, but those are nice passives a well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T3mpest, post: 8359473, member: 560148"] It's actually MUCH easier to get loud in a car than it is in any home. Cars are much smaller than any home and have cabin gain. Often a free 20db or more compared to the same setup in home, no amount of road noise makes up that difference. In a home, people rarely as loudly as they do in the car. They are watching movies which sound obnoxious played back as loudly as you'd play back a song. They are sitting with people in the home who are doing other things, they have neigbhors, etc. There simply isn't the need for playback to be as loud, even for music in MOST cases. (some people crank it up in the home on music tho lol) Anyways home subs can work in a car. It really comes down to the sub in question, what it's response is like in a box that you can still fit in the car. It's a case by case thing so it's hard to make generalizations. One nice thing about many home audio subs is they tend to be for a more SQ oriented crowd and often have lower distortion. As far as passive radiators go, they do work. My last setup in my SUV was a very powerful Pro audio 21inch woofer and 3 15inch passive radiators. In my old trunk setup, I had 2 15inch Acoustic Elegance subwoofers (a HT/music combo sub, works in either) and I used 4 passive radiators. Main advantage is you can get very low tuning out of a small box, since passives take up no space and the tuning is adjustable. I had a 5 cubic foot box tuned to 25hz in my trunk. If I were to do that with an adequately sized traditional port, by box would have been 7-8 cubes gross to be 5 cubes net and simply would never had fit in the trunk. Passives also don't have port resonance or noise to deal with, in a trunk setup that isn't important, but in something like a small truck, that can be great for SQ. Anyways if you want to try passive radiators Parts express sells a couple different ones with variying levels of quality, depending how high power the speaker and build is. Creative sounds has 15inch passive radiators at a great value and those will keep up with very powerful car audio oriented woofers and output levels. Fixmyspeaker/PSI car audio also custom builds passives for car audio purposes, a bit more money than some, but those are nice passives a well. [/QUOTE]
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