From: blnospambergman@earthlink.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:34:11 -0500, "I'm Right"    
   wrote:   
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   >> I've got an '06 Tacoma double-cab and would like to add a subwoofer.   
   >> The only place I can think of to store it is in the back seat's hidden   
   >> storage area.  Any recommendations on a punchy subwoofer and/or power   
   >> amp?   
   >   
   >go listen to some   
   >no one elses opinion matters on the sound that you want   
      
     Absolutely.  There are companies that make pre-fab cabinets that go   
   under the seat, but you still have to listen.   
      
     Bring listening material that you are intimately familiar with, so   
   if there are buzzes or gaps in the response, you'll notice it.  I've   
   seen injection molded fiberglass boxes that fit in odd shapes easily,   
   but have nasty resonances at certain frequencies.  Wood does it too,   
   unless it's internally braced to prevent it.   
      
     You want it to be clean first, loud second.  And if you want lots of   
   clean loud, it ain't gonna be cheap - you need to stay with the name   
   brand companies that stand behind their equipment.   
      
     (Idiots at a stoplight with the windows rolled down playing "thump"   
   music full up - and not only does their system sound like abject shit   
   even from 20 feet away [meaning it's far worse inside], every panel on   
   the car is flexing from the abuse and the trunk lid is about to fall   
   off from metal fatigue...)   
      
     Forget about claims of 1000 watt amps for under $1000 - the cheap   
   imported amps that have those grandiose inflated power claims attached   
   are usually testing them at 10% THD for a momentary pulse, and I can   
   hear 0.1 like a bell.  Even a tone deaf person will be screaming and   
   running by the time it hits 1% THD.   
      
     And you want to see any power output rating claims in real-world RMS   
   continuous, which won't be 1000 watts unless it's fan cooled.  And   
   backed up by a well designed power system that can feed the beast what   
   it needs at those levels - 200-amp alternator, Optima battery (low   
   internal resistance), huge cables, and several farads of electrolytic   
   capacitors right at the amp input.   
      
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