FreePenguin
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Oh no. I’m just adding the 4 plastic spacers to make a small 3/4 gap allowing bass to pass. Nothing destructive
basically porting the trunk.
basically porting the trunk.
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Did replacing the parcel shelf speakers make much of a difference?I put a little superglue on all the screws and tightened the shelf speakers up, they was completely loose from vibrations and driving, tossed a drop super glue on each one. Shouldn’t get loose again
I had a rattle I couldn’t place it, it was a speaker that got lose.
so put the seat latches on top of the carpet with the spacers behind it? Any reason why didn’t put both spacer and latch behind the carpet?
Just trying to make sure doing it right when I get the bolts tomorrow
looks awful but tossed some dynamat extreme up there
thanks a lot.....now i have to try that myself....leaving the rear seats downI have a single 12 inch sealed setup (600 watt Alpine Mono amp and Type S woofer) connected to the stock 9 speaker setup via LC2i and I thought it sounded pretty good and was happy for the few months I have had it. However, a few weeks back I had bought something at Home Depot that required I lower one of the rear seat backs to pass the item thru from the trunk to the rear seat section to take it home. On the way home, I immediately noticed the bass hitting hard AF. I have since been leaving one off the seat backs down all the time because it is a very noticeable increase in bass. I didn't think the trunk was sealed up that tight to block the bass that badly. My OCD is bothering me and I don't like leaving one of the seat backs down all the time even though nobody else can see it.
I am looking to see what are some ways others have used to get the bass to pass through to the main cabin without having to drop the rear seats.
Quick follow-up on this thread:
After trying all the other methods within this thread, I ultimately solved "my" issue by switching my 12" sub from a small sealed box to a, not too much bigger, slot-ported box and it SLAMS so hard that I now have to keep my rear seats up on purpose and had to also dial back my amp settings and remote bass knob. Problem solved!
I know this doesn't help those with the JBL box (or similar) mounted in the stock location. My box is mounted rear-facing right up against the back seat.
Although this is an older post I have to go ahead and state the obvious…the gain knob is NOT a volume control. Please for the love of audio do some research on what the gain function is for and stop recommending something that can damage equipment.If it's only a volume issue for you, just crank up the gain a tiny bit on the subwoofer amp to compensate for the muffling of the seats. If it's a quality of sound issue, you might want to put a bass port on the rear shelf. But do your homework before cutting into your car's sheet metal (Should be your last resort).