what is the best bass tube for the money?

Question

brand and model

Answer 1

bazooka tube
and of course a nice kicker

Answer 2

Don't waste your money on a bass tube. Just get a decent sub in a sealed box. With a decent amp. Contrary to popular belief, you can get good bass for around 250-300. A nice 10" eclipse, jl, fosgate, mtx, or kicker sub can be had for under $100. A nice 250-300 watt rms class d amp can be had for under $200.

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Answer 3

You can get way more bass from a 4th-order bandpass bass box (or bass reflex box). I just happened to have full plans for one. It's designed to house two 12's and handle 600 watts each side (1200 watts total) and fit neatly in the trunk of a Honda Civic with room to spare.

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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.

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

Bass Pro Shops, Strike King (Kevin Van Dam Signature Tubes) or Chompers salted magnum tubes...all good, all about the same $$.....it's the color that you need to know......shhhhhh black/neon red flecked (killing)
Have Luck

Answer 5

I don't understand why you would want a bass tube, but click the link below for some relatively inexpensive options:

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-xIyULSaQUdF/cgi-bin/Prodgroup.asp?g=208250&cm_re=leftnav*spg500*pg208250

Answer 6

none. bass tubes suck. all of them. get a pioneer shallow mount sub if you need space. these subs are 4" deep and sound just crazy. and i think they only have 300 rms, so you dont need a huge amp to run one.

Answer 7

A rockford Fozgate.