Well, that was your problem. You have to have the pass open, and seal the box from the trunk so as to avoid cancellation.

 

Well, it was a crappy lightning audio sub anyways. Now i Have 2 12"s in a huge box. There are only so many ways you can fit the box in your trunk, and I choose pushing it to the back of my trunk with the subs firing towards the lid latch. If only I could moved the torsion arms out of the way. That would give me more room in my trunk by allowing the box to sit against the ski hatch.

 

Mine is firiing towards the trunk. Lovin it.

 

I've had mine pointing in both directions in my Maxima, and I definately get more response facing the sub towards the rear of the car.

 

I aquired my I30 from my overcompensating brother. He pointed it down, it sounds good. Now to hook up that iPod...

 

His friend told him. His friend does installs all the time. You do know that's the ultimate authority, right?

With a single small-box 15", mine sounds much more authoritative than firing forward. This has been true in three cars now, so there must be something to doing this.

 

I Pointed mine up. I had about 1 inch of clearance from the bottom of the rear speakers to my subs. And with high excursion subs. Don't mix to well. Ended up taking my rear speakers out and have the subs fire upwards into the back deck. Kept the grills on so you can't even tell the speakers are gone. Loud as hell in the back seat.

 

play with it and see what sounds best to you. most subs sound best facing the trunk lid and a couple inches away(for those of us that don't use our trunks) If you have a huge amount of power(over 1,000 watts rms), dead center of the trunk facing the front sounds best and cuts down on rattling for those of us that don't sound deaden.

 

is that what the 17 year old kid at best buy told you

 

How do you like those polks in the factory slot ported box? What are they tuned at? do they get really low?

 

Mine are currently pointed to the rear. This is my slotted box I made quite a while back.

I used to own a Q-Logic Trapezoidal Ported box. It was when I had cheap Infinity Reference 12s powered by weak 720W Jensen amp., but the subs were angled directly at the curve of the trunk lid, and the ports fired straight back. Sounded pretty good for the cheap quality of the system

 

I like to fire my to the back.

 

that looks sick...how does it sound?

 

Mine is firing at the rear glass

 

Mine too!! Mine too!!

 

2 eights firing up through the rear deck and into the cabin, IB baby...

 

Sounds familiar, hope they aren't OEM! lol.

 

Nope ascendant audio, much better. I really like em, more of SQ sub run off a polk 300.2 amp. Never got the bose so I replaced the 6x9 with the eights.

 

There *IS* some science involved here (in the words of Myth Busters, *WARNING* Science content ahead)... By pointing the subs backward you do to some extent get a more "mature" sound wave... If you picture a sine wave (sorry if you don't know what that is, but its something like --> ~ ) and the subs firing toward the rear, the sound wave as it "bounces" off the rear of the car and is reflected back toward the front kind of meshes with the sound wave that was sent forward on the firing - resulting in a double-sine or crossed sine wave. It has the effect of making the bass sound louder. The more functional answer, though - what stereo does not have the subs as a focal point aesthetically? You *want* people to see them - god knows they *hear* them.

 

in my 89 it seems much louder and deeper facing to the rear

 

firing to the rear

 

Toward the rear. I tried towards the front and up, but my subs sound the best facing back.

 

My sub faces the rear. I had it sideways for a while, not as good.

 

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... mine is firing toward the rear. I had it in every other conceivable position in the trunk save firing down, and it sounds the best this way.

 

mine are firing towards the rear..i had the pointed towards the front but found it sounds better when facing the rear.

 

so fire toward the trunk with about a 3ft distance from the trunk lid? Thats what i got from lookign at that link from the 1st page?? Thatt'll give you best result apparently?

 

I am doing a toally new install on my '96 and I am going to fire a single 10 in a sealed box directly through the ski pass-thru, totally sealed from the trunk to minimize reflected sound. This is supposed to be a great way to set up your sub if it's done right. I'll let you know how it sounds when I get it finished.

 

Rear firing, ive tried with every setup ive ever had firing towards the cabin and it sounds like crap every time

 

As far as I know, low frequency sounds (below 60hz) are larger than the entire car. As such, it should not matter which direction the subwoofer is pointing or how far away you are since the wave covers a larger distance than the entire carlength.

 

try putting the sub in various positions. it DOES have an affect on how the bass sounds.

 

man, why wont this thread just die..

 

it's being continuously bumped up by newbies...

 

I like mine facing in not towards the trunk sounds better to me.

 

I like my sub next to me in the front seat

 

pfffff, weak.

my sub is mounted in my steering wheel, facing towards me.

 

you know, scary part is that i can imagine you doing that....

 

My front seat is actually the subwoofer enclosure....... good thing it has a strong grill

 

Speaking of grills my sub doesn't like my P.E. Grill, not enough room for it to move .

 

What about putting some washers between the mounting area and the grill?

 

what sub is that? When I used those grills my 18mm xmax subs had plenty of room to spare...