Recent content by Bennett

Sinking the sub in the spare wheel well can work great depending on the sub. Try and make sure that the volume is correct for the sub you are fitting. Getting a better quality battery would be better than having the power cap. There are batteries on the market designed especially for car audio...

Hertz, Rainbow and focal are some of the best brands out there, but you dont need to spend quite as much as you think. Look in the sales perhaps in the summer and january some great bargains to be had. Also look at Cerwin Vega, great sq brand that tends to be a little cheaper. Impedance can...

Okay, SQ = Sound Quality. Some people prefer to hear the whole range of the songs they play at the best possible quality. These systems cost alot to get right but are very rewarding when finished, i myself am a bit of an SQ man. SPL = Sound Pressure Level. This is pure volume and air...

A couple of small L brackets should keep it nicely in place.

Firstly what have you actually installed? Model, Brand etc? Some products are SQ based and some are SPL based. Check you have all your impedance ratings, input sensitivities and filters set up correctly. Check your power levels on your amps, please dont take offence as non is meant but do...

Wanting to have a better set up than your mates is a great motivator! ive always been the same :o Fusion and Vibe are on the same kind of level with perhaps Fusion being slightly better as they tend to be more honest. Vibe tend to over rate ther own products and are not that good at what they...

1) Amping the front speakers will improve them massively. You will get alot better volume and clarity however......... 2) The speakers you have in the front at the moment are not really good enough to be run from an amp. If you were to amp them up you will damage them. The cheapest good...

Ok, from reading this there are a few things that may clash a little. Firstly good SQ aswell as volume cost a little bit to get right. Very much possible when done right. OEM look, this will not make things easy at all. Keeping the car looking OEM is fine but this will seriously limit the...

Although having two subwoofers means twice the cone area thus twice the air movement this does not mean that it will be better than a single subwoofer of a different brand. One of the things to look at is the excursion, say the fusion twin has an excursion of 14mm per sub that will be 28mm...

There aint really any need to port a 10" sub unless its sumat crazy that can move a hell of a lot of air. Alot of the lower end 12" subs dont really benefit from porting. £70 for a custom box is a really good price tbh. Our cost prices arent far off that and we consider our builder to be...

Sounds like at the moment your sub might be putting out quite well for what it is. If i were you id wait a little while till the alpine just does not do it for you anymore then look at getting a pair of REaudio SE 12" or possibly some Rockford Punch 12".

It sounds like your last system did not have a good box at all. A port does not tend to alter the volume of a box unless your talking big numbers, i did a test at work a couple of months back, same sub, different boxes. The sealed box sounded better for all round performance whereas the ported...

Firstly let me say that is a quality drawing! What are you looking to do with the port, are you wanting to tune to a specific frequency or simply for general music? If you are looking to tune for a specific frequency i would suggest searching google for one of the many free box design...

If you want good bass in the front then you need to amp some good quality componants but you may feel that this is still not enough without a sub in the car. Door speakers are never really great at providing that thumping bass unless you spend loads. My advice would be to replace the fronts...

2k watts = ~160 amps at 12v (presuming you have a battery producing 12v consistantly) using the amps=watts/voltage equation. Good quality 4guage, as far as im aware, can handle upto around 150amp current. This figure is from talking to a few suppliers over the years, may just be them trying...