Thread: Cold Weather and Speakers

Whoa.. that's intense haha

Kinda sucks though, I would cry.. like a man of course.

oh damn. i would never even think about something like that happening. The cold sucks. you don't always realize how careful you have to be with electronics in it. it broke my laptop battery a few weeks ago.

DIYMA 12 FTL.

Originally Posted by I800C0LLECT

Don't be jealous

Cold weather is a b tho. (sigh).

treated paper IS the way to go in car audio.

Dustcap shouldnt cause that damage though.

Former to cone connection must have let go.

I bet that sounded pretty cool when it was tearing itself to shreads...

Originally Posted by IffyG

I bet that sounded pretty cool when it was tearing itself to shreads...

Trust me... it doesnt.

I feel your pain. Somehow I managed to blow out my 6x9s a few weeks ago after tinkering with my amplifier (granted they were 10 years old and have been through 3 cars), I was still sad to see them quit on me.

my 6x9's are 1.5 years old, and they're quitting. Paid money for them and they're failing, not happy.

Its probably from the 18 just below them pounding on them though.

I tried that, didn't like it as much as facing directly rearwards and within 2" from the rear of the trunk.

I've tried that as well. It seems to dampen the bass too much for my liking.

From my experience with subs in different cars you will almost always reach a greater Db level with the sub woofer facing reward. This is because the trunk creates a form of bass reflex allowing the waves to unfold for a longer amount of time. Aiming speakers through the pass through door wont increase your bass, if anything it should diminish it. However you will likely get more notes by aiming it that way.

Keep in mind these are facts with ported boxes since when i had my tiny sealed enclosures i only used them with a 300 watt peak amp and never messed with them since they didn't matter on that car. As for the current setup that i have which is a single ported 10 inch RE SRx with about 460 rms. Its about 2 db's louder facing rearwards than through the pass through door. But i get a lot more high notes and lower lows and a whole lot of wind if i put it where i designed it to which is between the two seats aiming through the door.

i dont do ported in cars... cabin gain is gross enough as is.

Well its all about preference. Sealed is definitely the way to go for sq. No ported box will get the same kind of punchy tight bass you can get out of an optimum sealed enclosure. However i like a combination of SQ and SPL so I run custom built ported enclosures designed for the subs i run and the car i run them in. Ive gotten pretty lucky since the owner of the audio shop i buy from owns a Grand Prix and has built many boxes and designs for his so he knows the dynamics of my car quite well. Plus hes interested in my box designs since most of the ones I come up with are things he hasn't seen before. For SPL the guys i'm having build my box hold a few world championships in DB-drags. They also have won quite a few SQ competitions in Missouri so i think the box they build will be just fine for my taste.