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Hey!
I need a sub to help out the bottom end. My car is a '97 Prelude, I have Focal polyglass 160 v2 in the front powered off an Alpine PDX 4.150 amp. The rears are stock and I fade the deck forwards cause the rears kinda **** and I prefer a forward sound stage anyway. In fact, the only reason the rears are even hooked up right now is because they provide some (sloppy) bass, which the Polyglass are completely lacking (in fact, I kinda regret buying the Focals, but oh well).
Anyway, to fix this I've decided to get a sub. To power this sub I want to bridge the two channels from the PDX, which will give me at least 300W RMS (the PDX was lab tested to actually output 163W per channel). Now, subs and amps need to be well matched, and I'm not so good at matching because I'm a bit of a noob in this department. A few things I do know are that I don't really want to devote too much space to the sub (read: small, single driver - or possibly two 8" drivers) and I'm NOT interested in SQL, I just want something that's very musical (SQ - sealed box). I listen to various types of music from techno to rock, so I want nice, quick & tight bass - although some nice punch/kick would be good too.
So, what do the experts think? Some brands that I was considering (mostly because I have easy access to them): Alpine (Type-R?), Diamond, Focal, JL, Coustic, Boston and Kicker. I haven't listened to any of them and have no real reference (except for a Bazooka tube that was in my car once-upon-a-time, but recently packed it in) so any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
- Mike
I need a sub to help out the bottom end. My car is a '97 Prelude, I have Focal polyglass 160 v2 in the front powered off an Alpine PDX 4.150 amp. The rears are stock and I fade the deck forwards cause the rears kinda **** and I prefer a forward sound stage anyway. In fact, the only reason the rears are even hooked up right now is because they provide some (sloppy) bass, which the Polyglass are completely lacking (in fact, I kinda regret buying the Focals, but oh well).
Anyway, to fix this I've decided to get a sub. To power this sub I want to bridge the two channels from the PDX, which will give me at least 300W RMS (the PDX was lab tested to actually output 163W per channel). Now, subs and amps need to be well matched, and I'm not so good at matching because I'm a bit of a noob in this department. A few things I do know are that I don't really want to devote too much space to the sub (read: small, single driver - or possibly two 8" drivers) and I'm NOT interested in SQL, I just want something that's very musical (SQ - sealed box). I listen to various types of music from techno to rock, so I want nice, quick & tight bass - although some nice punch/kick would be good too.
So, what do the experts think? Some brands that I was considering (mostly because I have easy access to them): Alpine (Type-R?), Diamond, Focal, JL, Coustic, Boston and Kicker. I haven't listened to any of them and have no real reference (except for a Bazooka tube that was in my car once-upon-a-time, but recently packed it in) so any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
- Mike
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