I took the 10 inch sub out of my truck when I sold it and would now like to put it in my TL. The box its currently in is an unvented truck box, where it sounded pretty good in the truck. I'm obviously gonna lose the truck box and put the sub into a regular box now that I have room for it in the TL.

My question is should I go with a sealed box like the truck box was, or get a vented box for the sub? Not to go into too much detail the sub is a dual voice coil sub and the amp is only pushing around 250 Watts to the one 10 inch sub. What advantages do I have with either style of box, sealed or vented, over the other?

 

Without getting into detail. Sealed for SQ and Vented for SPL.

I hear bandpass is really nice to put in our cars. I'll try it with my 12's sooner or later.

 

lulz

 

Given that you only have 250 watts pushing to it. I would recommend going with the sealed box. For many obvious reasons.

 

if you only have 250 on tap, you go ported for efficiency.

 

+1

 

Lol...I lulz'd too. Me and you are on the same page in most of these type threads...good stuff!




This guy's got it! If your pushing a sub with a weak amp...ported will always help to increase the efficiency of the sub over sealed. My advice to you would be to find out the specs for a ported box for your sub and build one/have on built. For 1 10" it should be very big at all...

 

hahaha correction on myself. I meant ported for obvious reasons. I typed faster than I think about after being beat up at work hahha. I was thinking the low power for obvious reasons go ported but I was thinking of sealed so I typed sealed instead of ported when I meant ported. Hopefully that makes sense. Sealed boxes always require more power vs ported. Really no point I think though since I have no idea of a sub that only runs off of 250 watts unless it's an 8" then maybe lol. The amp rated rms at 250 or that's peak? Get better amp and if your sub is really needing only 250 watts then get a better sub too <<<<<<<------- read it over and I think I mean to type what i'm really meaning to type.

 

Thanks for all the info guys.

And correction, its a 500 Watt amp. Went and looked at it again, sorry its been sitting in a closet for a while.

 

What's the actual amp brand and model #?? With all these bogus car audio wannabe companies out there saying they make a 4000 watt amp but if you look it does 300 x 2 @ 4ohms....then they add that to what it does at 2 ohms...then add that to 1ohm (if its stable)...then multiply it by 3 because they can....its really ridiculous actually haha! And to top if off, most are WAAY overrated