Originally Posted by
tommyk90
That's actually not 100% true. If you talk to a wide variety of competitors, some will tell you that sound deadening actually HURT their score.
As for the whole sealed box thing, it would appear as though you are trying to give yourself the edge by going on pure cone area (and the additional air displacement that much cone area can provide over a 10" woofer). The W7 is a much better sealed box woofer than the sub your competition is planning on using.
Each person should be able to use the box of their choice. This will require the person to actually put some of their own personal KNOWLEDGE into the competition rather than tossing some prefab sealed box into similar cars.
A similar bet like this went down with a teammate of mine and a member of another competition club in my area. We were at a cruise night just messing around, and the arrogant kid starts bragging about how much louder his setup is than everyone elses. Kid had 4 12's in a blazer extreme and bet my teammate (who had 2 15's in a ford escape) $100 that his setup was louder. After my teammate threw down his $100, the kid backed out.
Then they metered their cars anyways, and my teammate ended up beating his score by 4 dB.
Which is the point. It's not a competition of who can build the better box or has more knowledge. It's sub vs. sub. I have no doubt in my mind that someone could take a cheaper 10" sub, build the vehicle up, throw it in some off the wall super box, pump 5k watts to it, and beat a 13w7 with a mediocore install. Burp it, blow it, and win. The only way to accuratley faceoff two subs is to keep as many variables constant as possible.
I could also take my Jeep, throw a 200 shot of nitrous on it, trade my mud tires in for racing slicks, and beat a stock Mustang GT. Regardless of blowing my engine up.
On a side note, who the heck are you? I see this debate has leached it way over to other boards, so I guess we can expect a trolling insurgence of naysayers now.
