lt1 gun

i was wonder if there was an easy way to get more bass out of the stock sub?


is the stock box ported at all? never really looked at it


i was thinking about making a bigger, ported box for it

jmiller15

that stock setup is ported, the port is very small though.. theres really not much you can do to squeez more bass out of it..

06blackbalt

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you can put a bigger amp to it that is what i did to mine

EmperorJJ1

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stock box is supposed to be sealed. not sealed well but sealed none the less.

ericgt79

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theres a guy on here that added a bigger guage of wire to his stock stuff and got more sound out of it

EmperorJJ1

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doubt that ^^^ placebo maybe but thats about it. Bigger power wire is just less voltage loss = more power (also too small will burn). but bigger speaker wire wont really do much especially with the 50w or so its getting stock

sptrdss

just got done this weekend adding an amp to the stock sub box in my 09 but also changed the sub to an alpine,will post pics soon.

ericgt79

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well i dont know but we had a meet and he played it and it sounds alot better and all he did was add more wire.

joeworkstoohard

i guess it's possible, it's just pretty unlikely.

EmperorJJ1

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x2... id want some more specifics before id agree that bigger wire would do more then empty your wallet. Anything like a new aftermarket cd player, ls cd player, different amp would make a bit more sense on why its louder. Like joe said i guess it could be possible but unlikely

joeworkstoohard

well, i'm a home theatre installer, and i've seen in some setups where going from a shitty wire to a better one sound better... however, that said, generally, i feel that it's more that the original wire was 20 gauge junk, not that the new wire was so great.

i don't buy into that whole "spend $2343344543454345 a foot on some super duper speaker wire" crap. i mean, i order good 16/2 wire for my van, and it's fine for 99% of applications. if someone has REAL power being drawn from his speakers, i'll use a heavier 12/2.

JPizzle

Yea. Spending tons of money on wires, is kinda crazy, but you don't want shitty wires either...

07SSS

I already asked this question like a month ago and was told nothing i can do. Other than the obvious but i did think about a new amp where is the amp located on these cars?

EmperorJJ1

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true but on the setups that youve seen get louder what wires were changed and more importantly how long were they? i agree with you 100% on the speaker wire. the key word to what you said is power draw. were talking about the absolute maximum 50w rms on the stock sub with say 12ft from the amp to sub. also what wire was used. dirty secret in the car audio industry is copper clad aluminum. Even an upgrade to 18 or 16g may not be an upgrade at all if it was CCA

new amp is the way to go if you are going to do anything at all... stock amp is under the dash by the steering column

ericgt79

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so emp in your oppinion what is the best dvd/nav system out right now

EmperorJJ1

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it really depends on what your comparing to what. Speaker wires make little to no difference. 16 is really more then enough for most applications. any huge speaker wire (like my 8g) doesn't make a difference. Power wire is a whole new story not because of the bullshit wire thats so common

kenwood dnx-8120

joeworkstoohard

well, in my case, runs of 50 foot or more isn't all that uncommon, the good news is, most of the time, those are just small driver surround speakers, so it isn't all THAT big of a deal.

ericgt79

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what about the pioneer AVIC-Z3

EmperorJJ1

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i haven't played with one personally but should be pretty nice as well. Supposedly pioneer had alot of issues with them at the beginning of the year but they supposedly fixed those issues. the main differences is the kenwood is 5.1 surround sound and the pioneer has the navigation/music internal HDD

ericgt79

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plus the pioneer screen is lil bigger i think.

tony2toness/sc

hey whats up eric yea amp is better than what i did lol but i was cheap and i had thicker wire laying around thats why i did it and have u seen the wire that are running on the woofer its almost the size of a small piece of string lol

ericgt79

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^^ see hes the dude that did it and got more sound just be adding more wire.

tony2toness/sc

lol yea and now i have another woofer lol i just want more at least 2 more and i cant start my custom fiber glass box

EmperorJJ1

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what wire(s) did you replace?

07YellowSS

Did it all myself, i just swaped out the pioneer sub with a dual 2 ohm kicker, i had to fiberglass a bowl to fit the magnet in the stock box and i also had to cut the 10" hole bigger. Then i have the 10" l5 that matches the crv, powered by the 300 Watt mono kicker amp. It sounds nice, verry deep clean sound.





im also using the stock amp on the crv.