[Shotimes] (OT) audio advice, please: adding a sub to 94 CV

[Noah South III]

Well this is really an easy problem to solve.  Get a Self-Powered Bass Tube.
It's THE most affordable way to add a little more bass to your vehicle.
It's also the easiest install.  I promise it will fill in the low end that
is always so lacking on stock stereo systems.

If you want to upgrade past that and go for quality not quantity, then
there's no real affordable way to do it.  Front component speakers that are
amped is the only way to get quality out of a stereo system in any vehicle.
But that ends up with the cost pushing $1000 for JUST that.  Aftermarket
Coaxial speakers will sound MUCH better than stock papers, but even then
that's not even close to amped components.

Oh, and you DO know how many subs he COULD fit in that trunk, right?  <G>

Using the "Gotti Rule of '97", you can fit 6 bodies in that trunk, and given
Two 8" subs and the required airspace for those subs per body, you've got
about 6 12" subs that will fit in that truck and still give the required
airspace (inside AND outside the box) per sub.  No this calculation does not
take into account the space an amp rack may occupy, however one may
substitute the space that two 8" subs plus airspace(e.g. one body) take up
for the space required for a decent amp rack.

Before someone asks, the assumed size of each body in the "Gotti Rule of
'97" is the size of a "non-disassembled Medium build, middle aged, Italian
male."  Also, this rule doesn't take into account space taken up by
disassembled bodies.  That can be too messy of a calculation because
disassembly can sometimes result in doubling the capacity.
 
-Noah "Capa Dell'asta" South III


> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of van Oss
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:07 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] (OT) audio advice, please: adding a sub to 94 CV
> 
> My oldest son is driving our 94 Crown Vic.  He's expressed interest in
> adding more bass to the audio system.  That's what kids do these days.   :
> )
> His 17th birthday is coming up, so I am exploring subs, poking around
> FleaBay, etc.  Two things you should know:
> 
> -- My 92 SHO has factory JBL (two amps, one 6" sub) with 4 aftermarket
> speakers.  The quality and volume are more than enough to satisfy me and
> my
> son.  In fact I don't want him to have that much volume.  I'm looking for
> a
> qualitative improvement, not quantitative.
> 
> -- The CV has a $100 aftermarket CD receiver which we think has RCA
> connections for a sub.  The front-door speakers are factory but the rear
> 6x9s are 2-way aftermarkets.  The present system contains no amp.  He
> listens mostly to pop and hip-hop.
> 
> As always, budget is limited.  If you had $100 to spend on this audio
> system, what would you do?  Front speakers?  Main amp?  Powered mini-sub?
> 
> Also one specific area of question:  How do subs get sound into the cabin?
> I mean, the JBL sub points the sound through an opening in the rear shelf.
> The enclosures and tubes I'm looking at, it's not clear --- do they also
> want a hole in the rear shelf?  Or does the sub just sit in the trunk,
> sending rumbles through the rear seatback?
> 
> TIA for any advice.
> VO
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