How can I make my subs punchier
03-13-2004, 03:52 PM
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I just bought 2 12" Alpine Type R's and am running them in a 1 cube each sealed box with a 1000bd running them. They play low really loud but to my suprise they have very little punch. They sound very sloppy. The box sealled pretty good (very minor air leak) I've got a little bit of polyfill in the box. If I removed that would it help? Is the amp the problem? And please don't tell me I should have bought tens. I've also got a 1 farad cap on the amp. Thanks guys
03-13-2004, 04:10 PM
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First of all, how do you have them crossed over? DO you have a x over in your amp or is it an external one? Either way, take a look on where the x over point it at. If it is set really low, you may want bring it up a bit. 12's will play low, but they shouldn't be sloppy. What type of amp are you running?
03-13-2004, 04:15 PM
#4
Hey Jay!!try thowing something solid into the box to reduce the volume,and see if it gets punchier.if that works than reduce the vol of the box by gluing mdf to the sides,it'd be really solid and quicker than building a new box 
03-13-2004, 04:47 PM
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I've already played with the crossovers, that didn't help. I might try reducing my box volume a bit because I got gobs of power running them so I could aford to loose some box space. That will increase my power handling too. Thanks guys
