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Old 10-13-2010, 11:12 PM
FX4 Mike FX4 Mike is offline
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Default Went deaf tonight.... woofer related

well my friend(toyota celica) had a kicker comp 10" (150rms) in a 1 cubic foot sealed box and 150 watt rms amp and he switched to a $30 pioneer 10"(200rms) and it was a lot louder. so i told him i could build him a box for the kicker that would put the pioneer to shame (since the pioneer works better in a sealed and the kicker in ported)...

so i designed and built him a ported box (he paid for the supplies).

Played mims - move on his current settings with pioneer sub and sealed box(bass boost +12, gain at max, bass on head +10, played at volume 35(just clipped and distorted after 35)). was loud but very distorted, shook a little bit and could kinda feel it.

Switched to my ported box new settings (bass boost 0, gain adjusted to not clip so turned down a lot, settings on head Flat, played at 40) played a lot clearer and hit 10x harder... gonna get some vids up tmmrw on youtube hopefully.

drove around and blasted songs for an hour, kinda deaf right now lol
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Old 10-14-2010, 11:05 PM
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Default Re: Went deaf tonight.... woofer related

Bass boost settings are pretty much clipping settings. The higher you put them, the more you clip. The clipping knob is not a volume knob. The box makes the bass. With that 150RMS, you could have had crystal clear lows and nice lowend midbass as well.
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Old 10-15-2010, 12:17 PM
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Default Re: Went deaf tonight.... woofer related

yeah i know that and told him that... i adjusted the gain so it wasnt clipping and turned off bass boost... he said "omg the bass is so clean, I Love It" then yesterday he said "once i get my new setup then ill care about how clean it is (12" Type R and 500watt mono amp)", so he turned up the bass boost and gain all the way, its louder but sounds like crap now.
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Old 10-15-2010, 01:06 PM
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Default Re: Went deaf tonight.... woofer related

Yeah most of the time when people just throw a system in there it's for bragging rights and shit like that, lol.

My system is for MY listening pleasure. No one elses. I blast it on the highway then either roll up my windows in town or turn the music down. But I've got my ported box tuned low for SQ and my EQ set on "treble boost".
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