Do you like Boston Acoustics?

Question

i think there the best sounding speakers in the car audio market today. some like mb quart, some focal, others jl, and alpine. what say you?

Answer 1

I agree with you!!! I had component set 6.25" woffer and 1" twiteer, boy they sounded sweet!!!

Answer 2

despite what sparky may think, there's more to speakers than just subwoofers.

Boston Acoustics makes decent sounding speakers, but for the price of their higher end component lines, you can probably find some better choices for the money. However, you'd be looking into smaller, more high-end speaker companies once you're getting up that level.

I'm not sure what you're looking for, but as far as their coaxial speakers go, BA's are pretty good for the money. I've owned a few pairs and I liked them all. Plus, they don't require a ton of power and can be easily be powered straight from your head unit.

Answer 3

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Your system won't mean squat without a well designed box to put your subs in. Some manufacturers have recommendations as to dimensions of various types of boxes. It is best to find someone who builds boxes if you go with something other than a sealed box.

You should always match up RMS (Root Mean Square) watts of Subs and amp per channel as well as impedance's(resistances).

If your amp is rated at 4Ω don't subject it to 2Ω, it will fry.

Here is the formula for subs in parallel:

Z = 1 / (1/sub1 + 1/sub2 + 1/sub3 + ....)

For series, just add them up (sub1 + sub2 + ...).

You can mix and match these equations to get the right impedance required by your amp.

Example: 4 subs @ 4Ω each. If I connect two in parallel and the other two in parallel and tie the two pairs in series, I would have a total impedance(resistance) of 4Ω. So to the amp, it's just one sub.

You should use a capacitor as well.

Recommend for every 500 watts MAX you use a .5 Farad cap
Example: 1000 watts MAX - 1 Farad cap

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You will also need what's called a "line level converter" if your stock head unit doesn't have RCA outputs or your amp doesn't have high-level inputs.

If you like I can send you some plans for reference. My plans are for a 4-th order band pass bass box that holds two 12's. Also included are java calculators you can use to figure parallel and series values given Ω values.
Just e-mail me [e-mail]

My system

Blaupunkt TSw1200 subs with a Sony Xplōd XM2200GTX.
My amp is 1200 watts, subs are 600 watts each, cap is 1.2 Farad

SPL is about 112 db

Total cost(so far) = $410

Answer 4

sure