Ask Us About Car Audio, Part 4: Gasp Harder

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Toxsyl: Sep 23, 2012; Somewhere along the line Jill lost a chromosome.

But she kept dat ass.

chem42 posted:

Are any shallow mount subs worth a drat? I'm looking at something like this for my Jeep Comanche:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_130SW841D/Pioneer-TS-SW841D.html?tp=111#overview-tab

There is very little room behind the seat, and I have to slide it all the way back to fit. I mainly listen to rock, with a little electronica once in a while.

The truck has 5.25s in the doors and 4x6s in the B pillar, so I can probably find some decent speakers without too much trouble. There's probably room for a 4ch amp beneath the seat to power them.

I've heard so many car stereos where the sub just adds a thump/rumble behind the music without actually being part of the music. IE, you hear the highs and mids of a drum beat through the door speakers, and you hear and feel a thump, but it doesn't really sound cohesive. How do I avoid that, other than by spending all my money?

As for shallow mount subs, the Rockford Fosgate Prime Shallows do a good job, or if you want to get a better shallow mount go for the Rockford Fosgate P3 Shallow. Kenwood also has an Excelon line of shallow mounts that do the job just fine.

Various companies have 5 1/4 and 4X6. Kenwood, Pioneer, Infinity, and Jvc have great selection and I want to say some as low as $80 USD.

The sound of your sub mostly depends on your EQing as other speakers tend to.

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Toxsyl: Sep 23, 2012; Somewhere along the line Jill lost a chromosome.

But she kept dat ass.

French Canadian posted:

My Mercedes Sprinter has a stupidly shallow single din head unit slot. Is there any CD-less headunit with radio antennae hookup for am/fm goodness?

I've seen mechless units but they're about as deep as regular units because they have a dumb ipod slot behind the faceplate.

I wanna say Pioneer has one, but it's a double din, and I think Kenwood has one aswell. I'll pm you with some options after looking over my catalog.

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Toxsyl: Sep 23, 2012; Somewhere along the line Jill lost a chromosome.

But she kept dat ass.

BJA posted:

Never really thought about this before, but I have a question. Last year I bought a mtx 12" sub, it recommended a sealed box but I already had a ported box so I just used that. I want to buy a second sub this year so I was thinking about buying one that recommended a ported box and swapping boxes since the sub I have is discontinued anyway.

Would this cause any strange sound issues or anything, having one ported, one sealed box?

The box I have is a 1.8 cf ported and it recommended a 1.25cf sealed. Any recommendations on a 2nd 12" that could use the ported box? Preferably under $200.

Ported boxes give a deeper sound and with different boxes, one ported and one sealed they will sound different.

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