Over the weekend I put a sub/amp in my 2001 CL. The sub is a Kicker CompVR 15 DVC that I had laying around, and the amp is a mono kicker ZX750 with the remote bass control knob mounted in my glovebox.

So I have bass now. LOTS of bass. I'm keeping the stock deck, all I really wanted to do was fill out my system a bit and I've done it. It sounds really full if I'm listening to pop/dance/rap, but the problem is that I listen to 99.999% heavy metal, and the 15 is just way too boomy of a sub for the tight bass that I'm looking for.

I'm considering a pair of Orion 10's in a sealed box, since my experience with bandpass has always been that it's not quite tight and articulate enough.

Thoughts?

 

10's are definitly the way to go for your setup. since you have the zx750 i would get two10's in a seal box. you will get the tight response and still be loud when you need it.

 

How are the sub faced? To the trunk, rear seats or upward?
I too found that 15 are very boomy specially in the car with a closed trunk (EG. Sedans). I put the sub facing upwards and was suprised how much tighter, cleaner, the bass sounded and with much less of the boom.

 

My experience with subs tell me that you will need a few things to have tight bass:

10" sub (maybe a 12" if its meant for a really small box)
Sealed box - usually about 1cu ft
High quality sub - talking about accuracy, not price

I have 2 10" DLS magnesium subs in a sealed box in my TL-S, super tight, yet rumble like the "sloppier" 10" subs when they need to.

 

I put Infinity's 10 in. Basslink in my son's honda over the winter. Good, tight bass. Smaller space though.

 

JL Audio 10w3v3's sound great. i would go with a sealed enclosure, it will give you a wider range in bass instead of just anything lower than 35 hz. your looking for more 45-55 hz so that all the music you listen to hits every bass note.

 

One additional thing to note that not only is a sealed box "tighter" sounding, but it also has the most flat frequency response of any enclosure - just that it won't be as loud. A ported box is louder at frequencies above the port tuning frequency, but produces little output below it (distortion is a major issue). Bandpass boxes are "double ported" meaning that they are tuned for a narrow range of frequencies, but have little output below and above those 2 frequencies. They are all output maximum volume.