"it's not it's 1400rms and the subs max out at 800 each so 700 rmsish but now i'm puttin a MA audio 5000watt 15 in a 8.6 cb ft slotted box wit a MTX3000rms amp.....i'm lookin for 170ish on the DB scale"
Geez, I'd hate to meet these types of people in real life...
Actually I met one. A while back i was at a party and this guy starting talking about his system. Of course, I pipe in and ask him what kind of stuff he has and he tells me he has a single 10 in a custom ported box. He seemed more keen to talking about his indash dvd screen, I was like "ok that sounds pretty sweet."
A few minutes later i had to go on a liquor run and told him to come with so he could hear my stuff. At the time I was running two 12in Idmax's sealed off two Alpine MRD-m1000's in an 02' Altima. Being the punk I am, I play the loudest (bass-wise) CD I had at the time which I believe was Lil' John, and played a few songs that had REALLY gut-wrenching lows (i think that car has a pretty low natural resonant frequency which helped). Well he tells me "yeah man this sounds pretty good... I'd say my setups probably pretty **** close to being this loud" (this kind of made me giggle inside because I was obviously geared toward of a more SQ setup at the time). I get kind of excited though, assuming he has a REALLY beefy 10 in a high tuned box with a ton of power.
So we go back to the house and sit in his Lancer, and he starts playing some sort of non-bass heavy music. It was seriously the WEAKEST thing I had ever heard in my life.
"Yeah sounds pretty good right?"
"Um sure man sounds nice"
"Yeah I dont listen to any rap or else you could see how loud it gets.
"I bet bro, mind if I check out your trunk?"
Single 10in Infinity reference with a Kenwood amp. Wow. The box was I'de say around 2cu/ft sealed, and had random 1 inch holes in it, like 5 or 6. Didn't ask. Gain and bass boost all the way up, no crossovers on. Wow again. I check out his in-dash and all the crossovers are off on there too.
Well after setting up his amp and all his in-dash crossovers and EQ I gave him the most obvious advice to get a smaller box built that DIDNT HAVE HOLES IN IT. Hah. I also had to explain to him why his amp wasn't really 2000 watts.
Don't know why I posted this whole story but how could someone sit in a car that makes your whole face itch and claim your system (that has ZERO bass) is "pretty close to this loud." Something I'll definitely never forget for sure