There are many different ways to get more out of your car audio system. You will often see cheap small powered systems outperform best high level expensive subwoofers. This is because its not always about how good the car audio stuff you are running, but how it is setup. There are many settings on an car amplifier that you can fine tune to make your car subwoofer louder. The first thing is the bass boost on an car amplifier. Firstly, you need to understand what this is. This is an preset equaliser adjustment of one band that is at bass frequency level, most of the time is 40 HZ or 50 HZ. When this is setup and increased, it will increase the bass output from that car subwoofer that plays in that region. The best way to set this level correctly, is to play an really bass heavy track with low frequencies and turn it up until you hear any clipping or distortion. As as soon as you notice that the sound quality is degrading, slowly turn the bass boost back down again. There is alot of negative comments about bass boost, but it works great if you are running an stock headunit that has minimal tuning settings.
The low pass filter is found on the car amplifier, you want to make sure the LPF switch is turned on and make sure they are not playing vocals. LPF should be used on all car subwoofers, as the HPF is meant to filter out bass from the car door speakers to reduce distortion,. I have seen car subwoofers setup incorrectly that they are playing an full range signal. This will not cause any damage, but the car subwoofers will not play to there full potential. I always suggest you setup to the low pass filter around 80 to 100Hz depending on your listening tastes.
You can also considering reduce the ohms the subwoofer is wired to in order to get more power from the car amplifier. You will need to research online to see what the different wiring configurations you can wire your car subwoofer to. Firstly, you will need to identify if its an single or dual voice coil subwoofer. You also need to check what's the lowest ohm load your car amplifier supports. If you go below what it is rated for, the car amplifier will go into protection mode and not play music.. Lower ohms means less electrical resistance which results in more power being obtained from your car amplifier. You can also bridge your car amplifier if its an two channel stereo amplifier, this will allow you to combine both left and right channels to make one big power output.
The enclosure which the car subwoofer is placed into also makes an big difference. An ported enclosure which an tuning frequency of 35HZ will be louder than an sealed subwoofer box. Sealed subwoofer boxes are easy to construct and practical due to there small size. However and big ported box will sound three times as loud on the same power. Get an custom subwoofer enclosure made to spec for the exact subwoofer you are using, in order to get the best sound of your speaker. The enclosure makes 70% of the bass output, so always make sure you take this part seriously in car audio. Cheap prefab boxes may seem appealing at first, but they don't work as well.
0 Comments: