It may be a stupid question to some folks here since the luke box is facing forward. I just have a simple wedge box with a 12". I have it facing rearward now and I get bass in the cabin and no trunk rattle. Would facing forward be better? I also have 4" ports i'm putting in the rear seat one of these days.
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Go turn it around and see what it sounds like. When I had a sub box I tried both ways. I ended up liking it facing the cabin. Then I bought a luke box and laughed at my old setup.
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I want very much to buy a luke box, but no money for that right now.Comment
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My son's car now has a Luke Box and you're right, everything else is just laughable.Comment
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Face out toward tail=others enjoy your music
Face in toward YOU=you enjoy music
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Gotcha. I've got to experiment. Honestly, you can't hear the bass outside of the car with it pointed backwards. At least not with my setup.
Good link. But it's basically saying it's better if pointed backwards? I'm not talking Luke's box. I WILL get one, one day.Comment
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sigpic"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself." -Ferdinand Porsche
The ugly car: http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=209713Comment
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The direction the sub is facing has nothing to do with why Luke's box sounds so good. What DOES make it sound so good is that it is sealed into the cabin. I.E. - No bass is inside the trunk.
Right now, all your bass is sealed into the trunk and none (or very, very little anyways) is getting into the cabin. Until you get a Luke Box, try knocking out your ski pass hole and mounting your sub up against it. At least with it that way, some bass will be getting into the cabin.Comment
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I found that my single sealed 12" sounds much better facing the rear of the trunk."I'd probably take the E30 M3 in this case just because I love that little car, and how tanky that inline 6 is." - thecj
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in the butt.
wait what?
Originally posted by stewie30luvrOriginally posted by JakePComment
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After trying it facing front, it sounds better facing backwards. Seems just as loud either way but I get more rattle with it facing forward. I then cut holes through the foam and it is better. Not life changing better, but better. I guess good enough to give me a headache on certain songs. Especially "Falling away from me" by Korn. :D
I was surprised how thick that foam was. I used some amazon bought 4" ports. I didn't cut into the fabric because I wasn't sure I wanted 2 big holes in the back seat. So I cut down to the fabric and pushed the ports in from the trunk.Attached FilesComment
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I tried it faced forward with a generic shit box. Crap. Faced it backwards. More crap.
Then, because my box has a 10-20 degree slant on the back of the box and a miracle accident of me sliding around on the streets, it decided to rotate on its own to face upwards and towards the rear deck, slightly pointed towards the rear glass.
That was the trick for my POS walmart sub box to give some decent kick right into the cabin.
450w + 10" into steel, then foam/leather = nothing for me
450w + 10" into steel, paperboard, then reflected off glass in my direction = dubstepComment
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Furthermore, with the woofer firing into the trunk and the port(s) firing into the car I wouldn't expect the sound to be very good. The woofer and port are supposed to work together, that's the whole point of it. Unless it's a bandpass sub we're talking about.Comment
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