I am looking for subs for my car perferably 12's and I don't have a huge budget. I was wondering on the cheaper subwoofers does anyone know about them like plye, legacy and subs in the lower rang. Nothing like JL or kicker. Also I was wondering if a cheap amp at walmart might work? I want some bass to shake the car a little but don't want extreme bass. I want it to sound nice not to just shake the car.
most people want cheap car audio. which is fine. the problem is, that after they get there stuff, there disapointed, and thought it would be better then it really is. so having said that here is my advise to you.
first off, if you want a little bass, just so the lows in the car sound good, then get a 10". they generally sound better then 12s but are not as loud. there also cheaper. next is try to get a sub with a low rms. that way you dont need to get a big expensive amp. to get a sub with a limited budget, that doesnt sound like a*s, you need to resort to the internet. check out sites like www.woofersect.com. i know they have MB Quart woofers on sale right now. i thin there 70% off. also dont be afraid to buy a new sub off ebay. infact i recomend you buy a Boston Acoustics G2, a 10" or 12" is up to you, off ebay. they go for about $100. trust me, its worth a little extra money for it. you will not find a better sounding sub for less money. i can almost promise you that.
as far as amps, that is anther thing you really dont want to get too cheap on. cheap amps scare me. go with a good brand. this is where ebay comes into play. you can get amps for pretty cheap. take this JBL amp for example. hella cheap. http://cgi.ebay.com/JBL-BP300-1-BP-300-1-Car-Audio-Amplifier-4-GA-wires_W0QQitemZ200040039789QQihZ010QQcategoryZ18797QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
good deals are out there. i'll put a link to the Boston sub on the bottom where i list my sources. save up a little money, and get stuff that doesnt suck. otherwise you will be unhappy and spend more and more money on a system. which over time, can be tons of money.
I wanted to know what was the best brand of car subwoofers there is. I was going to get a pair of hifonics subwoofers but i don't really know how they sound. I know JL's are really good when it comes to hard clean bass.
I too love my Infinity subwoofer.
I want some really good subwoofers to make my car as aloud as possible. I might only buy one woofer if they are too expensive but I want the best one I can buy with no money limit. I have a little space limit I cant fit to big of a woofer box in my car.
Best woofer and money doesn't matter... RE XXX is all I have to say... it moves the most air for any 12 inch driver in the world (proven fact) the only reason I say this is because you said no money limit as they cost anywhere from $1,800 to $2,200 a piece... but they are IMO the best SPL and SQ driver on the market today
Good Luck
I have Pyramid Power 15' car subwoofers... is there anyway I can hook them up to my Yamaha reciever in my home?
car is 2-4ohm................... House8ohm
You can. sound not too good
So, if i have a standard in-home receiver and I go out and buy two 15" car subwoofers, could I use them to enhance my stereo system? Pretend you're talking to a kid, because i know very little about this stuff. The only thing i know is that I have to hook up the subs in series, not parallel.
Yes but no. That is, you could make it work but there's several problems.
1) Car audio subs are un-powered and will require external amp's.
2) Often car subs require external crossover networks. That's the dowamahicy that divides the low & high sounds It must have the proper specs or it will sound poor and could damage the cheap speakers.
3) You will need an enclosure for your speaker. The enclosure should be built to a spec that provides proper porting, volume and isulation.
And there's a few more. Given the cost and knowledge base one would expend and need to use an improper porduct for the aplication, I'd head to the local electronics shop and pick up a sub for home use.
Good luck.
Just got a new car and I'm trying to think of ideas to ask for a Christmas present. Can anyone give me some ideas/tips of what I should buy in terms of subwoofers and speakers? Doesn't have to be insanely loud or anything like that, just something decent and preferably in the cheap category as far as expenses.
*Oh, it's an 02 Dodge Neon.
Pioneer is cheap and better than all brands listed above.
I searched on Ebay and found "new" Kicker subwoofers for a very low price. Can I trust Ebay to buy working car amps and speakers?
I don't see a big problem with purchasing car audio off of e-bay. I would make sure that the seller has a good rating with plenty of car audio sales and at least 98% positive feedback. I would also read the listing to see whether the products are new, "like-new", used, or refurbished. If it doesn't say, I would e-mail the seller and find out. I would e-mail them anyways just to make sure its not refurbished.
Also, pay with Paypal. With Paypal you are guaranteed to get what you pay for or you get your money back.
i just want to know whats the difference between car subwoofers and car tweeters and car speakers?
Subwoofer produce only the lowest bass notes. Typically 100Hz and below.
Tweeters reproduce only the highest notes - typically 6000Hz and above.
and speakers in general are, well, speakers. Woofers, subwoofers, and tweeters are all speakers. They are just specialty speakers and utilized for specific purposes. When you see "speakers" in general, they are usually compound speakers - utilizing a woofer and tweeter on the same frame. These are considered "full range" and are usually spec'd to cover the full audio range (considered to be 20Hz to 20kHz)
i am looking to get 2 10" rockford fosgates into my car. i am also buying 4 speakers, 2 for the door and 2 for the back. the only thing i am not sure about is what kind of amp i should get. i dont know if i should get a 2 channel or a 4 channel.
your help would be greatly appreciated.
Jay, instead of getting two 2 channel amps cant i just get one 4 channel amp to save a little bit of money?
i have 2 10's powered by a 300watt Rockford fosgate 2 channel amp. it does a great job. if you are going to power your other 4 speakers with the amp as well you may want the 4 channel
I have two 4 ohm subs and a 900 watt RMS (at 2Ohms) amp. I was planning on wiring them in parallel down to my 2 ohms when i set them up in my car, (but i wont get that until fall) so i want to put them to use by hooking them into my home theater system. Can I do this?
make sure your entertainment center receiver can supply / support enough wattage first...
get you a set of wires and 2 RCA or HDMI or composite plugs....cut the wires and make your own wires to plug set...then plug them into the receiver...and you're done...really not that hard
At the show I scurried from one car debut to another--finished products such as the Honda CR-Z and concepts such as the Hyundai Blue-Will , and Volkswagen New Compact Coupe .
All these launches--and there were many more I missed--had something in common: drama. Cars were hidden under covers, behind doors, and underneath stages. Executive speeches reached their crescendos as the new model was unveiled, rolled out, or popped up through a hatch in the stage. Spotlights flooded the stage. Camera flashes flashed. Fog machines fogged. Subwoofers throbbed.
All these theatrics should leave a seasoned reporter unmoved, right? Well, I didn't want to leap out of my seat to buy anything, but I have to say the antics were very effective at focusing attention to the matter at hand. In stark contrast to demos of new development platforms and multicore scalability I've seen at tech events, nobody in the thronging press had any doubt about when to roll the cameras and to shoot the photos.
I'm not saying Dell's problems would be solved if it just unveiled its next PC with some fireworks and unicycling bears. Rather, those auto show highlight moments were emblematic of a more sophisticated understanding of what makes potential customers tick and therefore how to get them excited about buying stuff.
Cars have a more visceral, emotional appeal than a lot of tech products. Humans often see their vehicles as an expression of their own selves--their strength, speed, status, success, or style. I think part of that is human nature--but part of it is the byproduct of decades of effective marketing, too.
Revving the Apple excitement engine
Apple's ability to make that sales pitch is eased by the fact that the company doesn't concern itself overmuch with catering to the highest volume markets where profit margins are slim and product differentiation is harder. But still, I see people express an emotional attachment to Apple products that I rarely see with DVD players, mobile phones, video cameras, Windows PCs, and other mainstream electronics products.
When you're buying an application server or a wireless network router, it's generally a pretty utilitarian choice, driven more by spec sheets, benchmark scores, and price-performance trade-offs. But it looks to me as if that method of promoting and selling that sort of product has carried over to market segments that could well grow beyond it.
To some extent, this is happening.
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are de-emphasizing processor frequencies and trying to tout real-world benefits. Systems like the Hewlett-Packard Envy and Dell Adamo embody their makers' aspirations to build something that people wouldn't be ashamed to have lying around when the dinner guests come. Sony, which still seems to be coasting on brand power built up years ago, has shown signs of grasping a lifestyle sales pitch.
Amazon positions the Kindle as a gateway to everything good about reading, a task made easier by the fact that it isn't freighted with the general-purpose baggage a PC must carry. Yahoo's $100 million "You" campaign emphasizes people, not the value of open application programming interfaces. And I think the Windows "I'm a PC" ads function reasonably well at reassuring Windows users that they're unassuming, regular folk rather than uppity snobs.
Most curious in the lifestyle-vs-features marketing spectrum is the Motorola Droid, a higher-end Android phone. To me, the "Droid Does" ads are on the one hand old-school tech marketing, a boast that its feature list is longer. But then on the other hand, it also strikes me that it's a lifestyle sales pitch geared for those who want to show they're in the tech in-crowd--the kind of person who wants to say he doesn't need any coddling from Apple.
Putting the Focus on a single feature
Yet the sales pitch during the press conference was still about a prospective customer's image. My translation: "Buying this car shows you're a person of good judgment, someone who recognizes good value but still knows a sharp-looking car."
In case there was any doubt, technical details were subordinate to the single feature Ford wanted us to remember: better fuel economy. Shown on a giant screen that bisected an entire basketball arena, the other features were reduced to dim text while the point about better mileage glowed orange. Executive Chairman Bill Ford himself delivered the message.
Another example: Toyota's FT-CH hybrid concept car , which looked to me like a cross between a Prius and something from the company's Scion line aimed at younger buyers. Toyota's pitch: the car is designed "to capture the high-energy style of the 8-bit generation" of the 1980s, a retro design for those who grew up with the blocky graphics and bright, simple music of Nintendo video games like Super Mario Brothers 3 and Mega Man II .
As the debut moment approached, chirpy music blared and retro graphics flashed, then the car emerged from hiding. Frankly, I found it all silly and had to restrain myself from rolling my eyes. But on further reflection, I decided Toyota deserved credit for trying to find a way to appeal to younger customers by appealing to their proto-nostalgia for a peppy part of their childhood rather than saying, in effect, "This subcompact is optimized for a person of your limited budget."
I'm not sure how easy it will be for the electronics industry to appeal to buyers' gut instincts. Many gadgets have short shelf lives compared to cars and just aren't big enough to project much of any image. A lot of devices really are tools without much capacity to appeal to mainstream passions. About the only emotion connected to today's lower-end, nearly disposable digital cameras is what you find in the photos you see on the screen.
Nevertheless, I think there's room for improvement. The electronics industry is in its infancy in some ways, still lacking the generations of history cars enjoy. Yet electronics can be as empowering as personal transportation in their own way. The social dimension of new devices opens innumerable opportunities for appeals to our gut instincts rather than our spreadsheet analyses.
I expect the transition to happen, and as it does, I'm sure nerdy types such as myself will be annoyed at all the feel-good fluffy vagueness of it all and run back to our lists of speeds and feeds.
But in the big picture, I consider it healthy. It could help in the shift from an era of humans adapting to electronics to one that's the other way around.
LAS VEGAS--Good audio has become a major selling point in cars , and automakers are signing up partners from the high-end audio world in droves. But Visteon's technology makes it unnecessary to throw all those speakers and amps in new cars.
Visteon is working with SRS Labs, a company that provides audio-shaping software for home theater systems, to improve audio in cars. SRS Labs' software and Visteon's hardware, which processes digital signals, add virtual subwoofers and 5.1-channel surround sound to even the most basic in-car audio systems.
We sat through a demo of the system in a Ford S-Max, a European test-platform, and listened to tracks played through multiple audio profiles. The S-Max itself had a simple six-speaker system, with woofers in the doors and tweeters on the A-pillars.
The two-channel audio profile raised the audio level so it seemed to be emanating at head level, and staged it across the dashboard, so it seemed we were sitting in the front row at a concert.
A virtual subwoofer enhanced low-frequency audio, bringing a very rich bass sound out of the standard speakers.
The most impressive audio profile used the virtual subwoofer and additional psycho-acoustic programming to create a very realistic surround sound experience. The audio was lifted up, as with the two-channel profile, and seemed to emanate from all around the car. The audio can also be set to put the sweet spot on any seat in the car.
This audio system will be available in any car that uses Visteon's DSP.
Lawyers for the rapper Nelly will be busy defending speeding tickets if his predictions come true. Nelly and Jim Farley, vice president of marketing for Ford, showed off Nelly’s custom Mustang GT, which will appear on the cover of his coming album on Tuesday at the 2010 North American International Auto Show.
“I already called my lawyers to get them on deck for more tickets,” Nelly said to the crowd at the Ford stand, around a new Mustang GT 5-liter. The St. Louis native is a car collector, with an impressive collection of luxury cars. He said he has been waiting for Ford to reproduce the iconic 5.0 engine. When he met with Mr. Farley last year in a visit to the Ford design center, Nelly gave him his feedback.
“It’s great when you are throwing ideas and the big shots listen,” Nelly said with a charming grin. “The 5.0 is epitome of the muscle car as it should be.”
The custom car was produced by Dub magazine and flaunts suede and leather and two 12-inch subwoofers. Ford is the title sponsor of the Dub Show Tour beginning on Friday at the Charity Preview in the Cobo Center.
“The Mustang hasn’t been promoted in the African-American and Latino cultures and yet it still needs to stay true to its performance heritage, so we gave it that street styling, said Myles Kovacs, president and co-founder of Dub magazine.
Utilizing the same powerful design tools used in legendary JL Audio subwoofers, the C2 woofer motors are optimized for symmetrical, linear behavior under
Just a comparison...I had the amp turned down, because I had the 10"s in the trunk earlier...managed to shatter a cone on one of them...whoops.
Yup.
The greenhouse gas guzzler guzzles gas and makes the earth hotter because of smog and global warming. If people keep driving these the earth could get as hot as a hot car.
The greenhouse gas guzzler guzzles gas and makes the earth hotter because of smog and global warming. If people keep driving these the earth could get as hot as a hot car.
The greenhouse gas guzzler guzzles gas and makes the earth hotter because of smog and global warming. If people keep driving these the earth could get as hot as a hot car.
