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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeffdachef" data-source="post: 8306299" data-attributes="member: 650438">Statement could not be any more wrong. Sealed is always unimpressive and wasted potential for a woofer. Every high end car and home audio company ports their woofers, never sealed you know why? more efficiency(power turns straight into sound energy without) and deeper bass.  Sealed produces very low notes but you dont even hear it since its extremely weak. Ported can sound tight, accurate, a lot deeper and a hell of a lot louder all around the sound spectrum then sealed. What you described is a prefabrricated junk chinese cookie cutter ported box compared to a prefabricated sealed box. A proper custom ported box built around your subwoofer will make it sound miles better then a sealed box.If you want that kick, you are gonna attract eyes anyways. Get a powerful amp, need 1000 rms on tap those old spl lines of pioneer took a bit more then rated power. Box tuned to 34-38 hz with more port area then normal. Box size should be around 2 - 2.5 cubic feet before counting in port area displacement. More port area will make it more tighter and punchy but sacrifices some low notes, tuning a bit higher helps with EDM, rock, metal, DnB, songs.Most of these guys will tell you to tune low but thats just car flexing bass, no real kick in the chest feeling. Deeper bass(20-40hz) does not = kick in the chest, it = car violently shaking, air moving and very low audible sound. Higher hertz bass 40-60hz = kick in that chest feeling.Normally for that kick i'd recommend a 4th order bandpass box but your sub does not work well in sealed so thats out of the picture.. You can try a 6th order bandpass but thats a lot of guesswork and test building so to be safe just stick with ported.</blockquote>

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