its loud but cant be heard a long way?

[DbRufus1234 10+ year member]

how come my friend who has a 10" W7 can be heard outside my car more than my L7 i mean its really loud inside my car, but when my friend rides by its like dammn but mine is louder but cant be heard outside the as far how come?

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[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

Because you **** at life.

 

[BiaBia 10+ year member]

Because you're mixing brands. Can't have JL wiring and Kicker subs.

 

[WarDrumz 10+ year member]

A lot, if not most people, buy their music for THEM to hear, not others outside the vehicle.

Every system I've had, people have always told me that they could hear me coming from a long way away. Thats not what I wanted, it just happened like that.

Some of my friends have ported setups that are tuned too high, and for some reason I can't hear theirs until they pull up. But my friends with sealed setups, and reasonably tuned ported boxes can be heard from pretty far away. My guess is, it's the lows that they hear. The lower the bass note is, the longer the wave is. So it probably carries further.

My friend has 2 12" L7s tuned to about 38hz. I can hear him from about a block away when his windows are down. When I had my setup with my box tuned to about 35hz, people told me when I pulled up, that they could hear me turning corners a couple of streets over, and that they could tell about how far away I was by how loud it got. I only turned up like that when I was trying to shut my friends up from bragging about their crappy systems. I never listened to it that loud for normal listening. Plus when I had it up that loud I had earplugz in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

Right now your in a stage that I hope you grow out of fast enough to keep most of your hearing. People that think like you do concerning car audio usually don't give a care that the music is hurting their ears, they just want to get attention when they pull up. And believe me, if you want attention, you'll definately get it when you get about 35 and wear hearing aids //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Snap out of it.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

A lot, if not most people, buy their music for THEM to hear, not others outside the vehicle.
Every system I've had, people have always told me that they could hear me coming from a long way away. Thats not what I wanted, it just happened like that.

Some of my friends have ported setups that are tuned too high, and for some reason I can't hear theirs until they pull up. But my friends with sealed setups, and reasonably tuned ported boxes can be heard from pretty far away. My guess is, it's the lows that they hear. The lower the bass note is, the longer the wave is. So it probably carries further.

My friend has 2 12" L7s tuned to about 38hz. I can hear him from about a block away when his windows are down. When I had my setup with my box tuned to about 35hz, people told me when I pulled up, that they could hear me turning corners a couple of streets over, and that they could tell about how far away I was by how loud it got. I only turned up like that when I was trying to shut my friends up from bragging about their crappy systems. I never listened to it that loud for normal listening. Plus when I had it up that loud I had earplugz in //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

Right now your in a stage that I hope you grow out of fast enough to keep most of your hearing. People that think like you do concerning car audio usually don't give a care that the music is hurting their ears, they just want to get attention when they pull up. And believe me, if you want attention, you'll definately get it when you get about 35 and wear hearing aids //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Snap out of it.

****! well put! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/handclap.gif.0c301076f534e244f0460706894f19e0.gif

 

[supraman1379 10+ year member]

roll down your windows and then it will be heard louder. But if not.....its most likely the vehicle its in

 

[BMG 10+ year member]

Because you're mixing brands. Can't have JL wiring and Kicker subs.

im confused.... what are you talkin about??

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

^apparentally he was being a smartass!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[DbRufus1234 10+ year member]

And believe me, if you want attention, you'll definately get it when you get about 35 and wear hearing aids //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Snap out of it.

r u bein fo real bout the hearin aid when your 35?

 

[dlovescaraudio 10+ year member]

dont feel bad most cars that have that long trow dont sound that good inside

 

[GSteg 10+ year member]

r u bein fo real bout the hearin aid when your 35?

in the long run, you're going to wear out your ears more, and eventually, hearing aids will be on the way..

keep it down if u don't want tat to happen so soon. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wave.gif.002382ce7d7c19757ab945cc69819de1.gif

 

[LimPerT 10+ year member]

yeah and who the **** cares how loud your **** is anyway...

 

[78nova 10+ year member]

well what I have figured out is that the lower the frequency the less it can be heard outside the car but more inside the car. And frequencies that are around the tuning of the box are loud outside and inside of the car.

 

[GSteg 10+ year member]

hrm..i would think lower frequency will travel further, since the wavelengths are longer. hrm..