Car Audio System

Before knowing how to build custom speaker boxes for your car, here is a brief idea about car speaker boxes and their types. The type of bass you receive from your car audio system doesn’t solely depend on the speaker. For optimum speaker performance, you require strong and tightly built speaker boxes. Speakers without speaker boxes or enclosures are unable to deliver full bass, as the sound from the back of the speaker cancels some of the low frequencies emerging from the front of the speaker.

Sealed enclosures or custom car speaker boxes are smaller than all other types of subboxes, but are most widely used and easy to construct. They do not permit air to escape from the box, thus making it difficult for the speaker to move in and out. This, as a result, enhances the transient response, i.e. tighter bass and better sound accuracy. These boxes have good power handling capability and their tightly sealed design prevents the speaker’s motor structure to cool down like other boxes. Other than sealed boxes, there are ported boxes that use a vent to reinforce deeper and forceful bass. Bandpass boxes are another type of car speaker boxes that are designed for maximum slam. They work great for rap, reggae and hard rock music as the sound that comes out is aggressive and loud, within a narrow frequency range. Read the rest of this entry »