I have a JBL GTO 1014D in the trunk of a 2000 SL Saturn, running on a Phoenix Gold 600W amp. It is in a 1.5 cu. ft. ported box tuned to 34Hz. It has great detail, decent impact considering it's a single 10, and can make my air freshener on the mirror dance to the beat if I want it to.

Can you give us some more details, like the internal volume of your enclosure, ported, sealed, crossover points, etc.?

 

It could also be that you are used to the bass in the truck because it is more "in" the cabin if you will. With the camry, you have seats, a wall of wood and other factors that contribute to it not sounding as nice as if you were in the same area as the sub.

But it could also be that the box is too small. That will choke a sub.

 

Benny wrote
(Can you give us some more details, like the internal volume of your enclosure, ported, sealed, crossover points, etc.?)

I’ve got it crossed at 80 Hz, the slope is 12db in a sealed box. The specs called for .75 cubic ft so that’s exactly where I made the box. Problem may be though I didn’t account for the sub itself. Both the truck and the Camry have a PRS880 head unit. The Camry’s sub amp is a Eclipse XA1000 the trucks sub amp is a Kenwood eXcelon if I remember correctly it’s the KAC-X10D


Austin wrote
(It could also be that you are used to the bass in the truck because it is more "in" the cabin if you will. With the camry, you have seats, a wall of wood and other factors that contribute to it not sounding as nice as if you were in the same area as the sub.
But it could also be that the box is too small. That will choke a sub.)

I was wondering if the panel I put in might affect the detail of the sub sound. I don’t have any problem getting the mirror to vibrate or anything like that. But that’s not the clean details I’m not hearing that I hear in the truck. Is this just the nature of trunk subs, or is there something I can do with this? In the truck there isn’t a panel just the rear seat back to go through.
Alan

 

No thoughts?

 

It could be as benny put it that you are used to what it sounds like in your truck, because it is directly behind you with no seat or rear deck to go through. The bass frequencies from the sub in your car have a lot more sound absorbing material to go through, therefore, less "detail" compared to your sub in your truck.
That's my best guess, a little bit of listener biased introduced from your two different systems.

 

Does anyone think that, the fact that I made the box the exact size without accounting for the sub itself would cause a difference in the detailed sound?

 

I don't think it would cause enough difference for you to think it sounds less detailed. Do you have any EQ in your system right now? I think having the sub in the trunk might introduce more peaks and valleys in your bass response than having the subs in your cab. Maybe get an EQ to smooth out your bass response and you may be able to retrieve some of the detail that you're missing. From what I gather, a single band parametric may be enough to make you happy, but the more the merrier.

 

The only eq in the system is in the head unit. 880PRS I have played with it a bit. It's graphic not parametric. I kind of wonder if it's not a combination of things. First being it may be the nature of the game with the sub in the trunk. And secondly the fact that it did sound a "little" more detailed when I put the sub from my truck in the trunk of the car. Maybe it's just the two different subs. I think I'll fold the rear seats down and put the sub right there and see what it sounds like then.
Alan