ported box question

[pearldrummer 10+ year member]

a guy at circuit city told my girlfriend that a ported box would sound like **** in a car with a regular trunk as opposed to an suv or a hatchback. no matter what i tell her she is stuck on believing this guy from circuit city.

so could some of you guys please tell my and her why he is wrong.

Thanks a lot.

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

x2.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

no matter what i tell her she is stuck on believing this guy from circuit city.

Why is it that women will always believe an "authority" figure on something, regardless of what we actually know to be true, simply because we aren't in their shoes? I've noticed this before...

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

i think you need to get your woman in check

 

[95RAM 10+ year member]

why do people always thing that ported boxes sound bad and think that their prefab bandpass is awesome

 

[Polecat 5,000+ posts]

He's an idiot, that's really all you need to know ...
That statement is so ludicrous, it doesn't even deserve an explanation ...

x3

 

[DFW40 10+ year member]

He probably meant a bandpass box and not ported. A bandpass would do much better in an SUV than a trunk. If he meant ported then he is an idiot and ported would actually be the best option for a trunk becasue of the extra output to fight through the backseat.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

A minimum wage, barely trained person is an "authority figure ?"

And yet, they get believed more often than us...

A bandpass would do much better in an SUV than a trunk.

Explain.

 

[DFW40 10+ year member]

Most all speakers do better in an SUV because the soundwaves do not have to fight through anything. Really cheap bandpass boxes are very peaky and might have great output at 50 hz but freq. above that and below that drop off dramatically and and would have a hard time finding their way to the front of the car where in an SUV they would have a better chance.

 

[Speedyd718 10+ year member]

that's is the most ignorant **** i've heard in a while. ported works, check my sig.

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

that ******* needs to get fired and rehired at the water & sewerage board

 

[akizzle 10+ year member]

tell her to read this topic.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

 

[pearldrummer 10+ year member]

haha thanks a lot guys.