Originally Posted by
vip18971
I'm going to pay that shop a visit this week probably. While we're on the subject, will one sub pushed into a corner sound right? Will I know the sound is coming from a corner or will it sound off because it isn't in the middle? I've never dealt with a low powered sub in a trunk like this. I mean, there is a great place to mount a fiberglass enclosure right in front of the left taillight, but would you even hear that all the way across the bigass trunk and into the cab of the car? I'm figuring the box should stay close to the rear seat if not there, right?
Yes, it will sound fine. Bass (low frequency notes) are omnidirectional sounds. This means that it is harder for the ear to determine the true location of the sound's source.
Notladstyle has a fiberglassed box in the corner of his car and in all honesty it sounds fairly good as if it was just almost in the middle, but then again he had a pretty strong woofer that was just blasting that one corner to hell so you really felt the car vibrate a little more on one side. You will not notice it when driving though, only if you move around in the car in different seats
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Most of the actual sound isn't coming FROM the woofer itself, it's the SPL (Sound Pressure Level) waves bouncing off the surfaces, vibrating them to give the sound you hear and feel.
If you're really that worried about the location of the subwoofer, go meet up with Dalton (notladstyle) if he's OK with it, and ask him to play different tracks in the car and when he plays one track, listen to it with the subwoofer in one side of the car, then ask him to slide it over to the middle (he doesn't have his perma-mounted) and then to the other side. The difference is fairly negligible.