I got a 95' Dodge Ram Standard Cab and I have 3 JL 10's hooked up to 3 Rockford Fosgate Amps. All I hear is the **** rattlin' from the subs hitting... can't hear any bass hits or anything unless my windows are all down and I have on LIL JOHN or DMX. What is the problem?
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be heard on the outside. That is just another segment or class of subwoofer mindset. One is not automatically going to be heard on the outside of their automobile just because they think they have a powerful system. It usually takes a mega powerful system to be heard on the outside, especially with your windows up. Remember, if you are being heard on the outside, your head and body is probably being blown away in the inside. Heard on the outside from a trunk enclosure may be a little less punishing.
I would agree that uncontrolled outside booming could set off car alarms and disturb houses, and other automobiles in the area. Some states have laws, such as a 50ft law. To be responsible you should have a separate volume control for the sub enclosure, if your intentions are to be heard substantially on the outside. There is a time and place for everything, that includes driving up a street booming, or providing the super boom music in a parking lot party, or in the appropriate area. Just be ready to control it.
My duel 15" bandpass enclosure (seen in picture), running a comfortable 1000 watts steady, pushes major air regardless of whether yall like my stinking Xplod's or what. It huffs and puffs, rocks and knocks, shivers da body, and probably if used too much, will eventually invent more rattles than I have now (plus in my head). Well . . . life goes on.
As far as your rattles, my best advice is find the rattles one by one and try to eliminate them using various methods when you have the time. Dynamat is not necessarily going to stop a rattle. Stopping a rattle is going to stop a rattle. Don't believe the hype (Flavor Flav).
A lot of new cars, SUV's like mine are very sound proof inside. So trying to have your windows rolled up and still hear it is defeating the purpose of a sound proof interior. If they hear it, they hear it. If they don't, they don't. But don't go out your you way to make them hear it.
Personally, I am not trying to make an achievement of having my system being heard on the outside. It's just that it rattles a bit. I don't want to have the rattles heard. That does not mean I want the music heard on the outside. I am not trying to get a ticket or set off car alarms. But I do know, when it is time to throw down . . . I can lift up my back door, and roll down the windows, and crank a yard party, parking lot jam, or whatever . . . cuz that is how I am livin. People depend on me to carry it like that. You have to decide how you want to carry it.
DCMax22 (The Professor)
