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<blockquote data-quote="FeelTheMusic" data-source="post: 8677686" data-attributes="member: 677308">Hello guys. I love car audio, I&#039;ve designed and built several VERY good sounding systems on previous vehicles in the past, and now I just bought another vehicle (a 2000 Toyota Tundra) and this thing REALLY needs a sound system upgrade! I&#039;m doing everything: receiver, component speakers in front, coaxials in the rear, and a single 12&quot; subwoofer. I know the subwoofer I really want to get already. What I want advice on, is the type and power necessary to give me the exact sound that I want from the sub, for a reasonable price.Ok so here&#039;s what I want: crunchy, tactile bass. I&#039;m going to have a single 12&quot; sub in a small sealed enclosure. To me this is the sweet spot for subwoofers. I want accuracy over max decibels. What I really want though is a really hard-hitting, stiff, initial hit of the bass note. I want the thing to kick you in the kidneys, without just jamming the volume up all the way.&nbsp; In other words I want the driver to deliver that initial speaker movement as close to instantaneously as possible. I&#039;m not going to buy one of those $300 fancy deep-cycle batteries yet. I was thinking of adding a huge car audio capacitor to the sub amp just so that the sub can create a really nice crunchy, immediate bass hit.&nbsp; But!&nbsp; I know that a good amp has a lot of capacitance built into it already from the factory, just for this type of thing. I want to know if there is an affordable amp out there, less than $100 (and I don&#039;t mind buying it used), that will be particularly well set up for that immediate power draw in the first fraction of a second, so that I don&#039;t have to buy a huge capacitor to provide it. For instance does anyone recommend buying a class A/B or class D amp for this purpose? Would anyone wire their subwoofer for 2 ohms instead of 4 ohms or vice versa, for this purpose?I can&#039;t wait to see what you guys say about this. This idea has been rattling around in my brain for years. I made an account on this forum just to understand this topic well. Thanks for your help.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FeelTheMusic, post: 8677686, member: 677308"] Hello guys. I love car audio, I've designed and built several VERY good sounding systems on previous vehicles in the past, and now I just bought another vehicle (a 2000 Toyota Tundra) and this thing REALLY needs a sound system upgrade! I'm doing everything: receiver, component speakers in front, coaxials in the rear, and a single 12" subwoofer. I know the subwoofer I really want to get already. What I want advice on, is the type and power necessary to give me the exact sound that I want from the sub, for a reasonable price. Ok so here's what I want: crunchy, tactile bass. I'm going to have a single 12" sub in a small sealed enclosure. To me this is the sweet spot for subwoofers. I want accuracy over max decibels. What I really want though is a really hard-hitting, stiff, initial hit of the bass note. I want the thing to kick you in the kidneys, without just jamming the volume up all the way. In other words [I]I want the driver to deliver that initial speaker movement as close to instantaneously as possible[/I]. I'm not going to buy one of those $300 fancy deep-cycle batteries yet. I was thinking of adding a huge car audio capacitor to the sub amp just so that the sub can create a really nice crunchy, immediate bass hit. But! I know that a good amp has a lot of capacitance built into it already from the factory, just for this type of thing. I want to know if there is an affordable amp out there, less than $100 (and I don't mind buying it used), that will be particularly well set up for that immediate power draw in the first fraction of a second, so that I don't have to buy a huge capacitor to provide it. For instance does anyone recommend buying a class A/B or class D amp for this purpose? Would anyone wire their subwoofer for 2 ohms instead of 4 ohms or vice versa, for this purpose? I can't wait to see what you guys say about this. This idea has been rattling around in my brain for years. I made an account on this forum just to understand this topic well. Thanks for your help. [/QUOTE]

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