Subs firing forward

[stork90 10+ year member]

yea i get what your saying man

 

[1rockford1 5,000+ posts]

new ride?

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

open your door while playing.. should get LOUD and be noticeably different

 

[stork90 10+ year member]

new ride?

Not gonna happen anytime soon man haha going into my 3rd year in college, balls deep in loans right now

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Its well known (usually) that most times rear-firing will give a big bump in the lowest octaves due to wave reinforcement, and a semi-bandpass effect in trunk vehicles. Facing the subs forward and sealing off the trunk does lower the amount of airspace to compress, but it also greatly affects freq response, and freq response is a big factor in how loud a system sounds 'to the human ear'. If you were to RTA your system before and after the change, you will probably notice less output in the lowest octaves, but an over all more linear freq response.

If you flipped your subs forward and sealed off the trunk for SQ reasons, you succeeded. But if you did it just to increase output, you screwed up.

 

[nateberrier 10+ year member]

Im NO expert lulz but i can say when in a hatch or a trunk its always been louder pointing up or back, never forward. If youre going for spl then this would be a dumb idea I think unless you were shooting for the rez frequency of the car. At that point you really wouldnt be using it for music and have wasted a lot of time.

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

Im NO expert lulz but i can say when in a hatch or a trunk its always been louder pointing up or back, never forward. If youre going for spl then this would be a dumb idea I think unless you were shooting for the rez frequency of the car. At that point you really wouldnt be using it for music and have wasted a lot of time.

thats what you get for thinkin

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

I would do either back or up with plenty of room around to let the pressure around the box and open ski hole and gut the rear deck

 

[stork90 10+ year member]

yea i ripped everything out and fired them back again, lesson learned lol