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Bronze Member Username: HondariderGlidden, Iowa U.S. Post Number: 16 Registered: Sep-05 | i have sony car sub behind my bedin my room which handles 200 watts rms and its hooked up to my shelf system and that gives it 170 watts rms but its not very loud any ideas? |
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Gold Member Username: Edster922Abubala, Ababala The Occupation Post Number: 2317 Registered: Mar-05 | 1. Sony makes crap car audio, and car audio subs suck at home. 2. Shelf systems are crap in general, especially famous for comically exaggerating their power ratings. If it claims 170watts rms you might be lucky to get maybe 60w rms from it on a good day, and even then those will probably be a thin and distorted 60w. 3. Save some money to buy yourself a decent self-powered sub, even the $145 (shipped) Dayton 12" from partsexpress.com would wipe the floor with what you have right now. 4. Save more money to buy a decent home component system, as little as $400 would get you light years better performance than any shelf/compact system. |
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Bronze Member Username: Rysa4Post Number: 58 Registered: Jul-05 | Wow. First off, there are more dollars put into car audio every year than there are in the entire home audio world combined. Car audio does NOT in general suck. Only stock stuff in many, but not all cars. The car custom audio install world is more than alive and well while many speaker braands for home audio are going under. Subs in cars are EXTREMELY powerful- or at least many, and todays kids are outting a bunch of them in trunks-- too much bass for me! In addition, Sony makes some decent head units for cars. I believe the problem you may be having is that you need to check your receiver and see if it has a subwoofer signal out put line. In addition, you would probably benefit from a powered sub, instead of what sounds like a passive sub. Importantly, what kind of receiver are you using? |
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Bronze Member Username: HondariderGlidden, Iowa U.S. Post Number: 17 Registered: Sep-05 | yes i know sony makes bad car audio now i was bored one day so i just bought this from walmart. And if i got a powered sub id hook it to my RCA 5.1 surround sound system the only reason i am still using my shelf system is to power the sub for some bass. I am not looking for real good sound quality or high end components just something for some decent base for cheap So what if i hook this to my sony sub? http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=300-804 |
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Bronze Member Username: HondariderGlidden, Iowa U.S. Post Number: 19 Registered: Sep-05 | yes my reciever does have a subwoofer output line. |
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Gold Member Username: Edster922Abubala, Ababala The Occupation Post Number: 2319 Registered: Mar-05 | Marc, actually I was slamming SONY car audio not car audio in general, though passive car audio subs used in a home environment are usually much worse than a powered home sub even that Dayton. When you say that car audio subs are "EXTREMELY powerful" I think you are referring to car subs you've heard being powered by extremely powerful sub-amps. Not easy to find a 1000watt sub amp for the home environment though. As for Sony HUs if you browse car audio forums they are held in about the same low esteem as Bose is in home audio forums. Lots of reliability problems apparently, too. Kenwood is the other favorite punching bag. |
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Gold Member Username: Edster922Abubala, Ababala The Occupation Post Number: 2320 Registered: Mar-05 | hr, that PE sub amp should be OK but why bother when you can get a whole self-powered sub for just an extra $20? 150 vs. 240 watts per channel translates into maybe 3-4 db of extra loudness, pretty meaningless in real life. Plus how do you know the Sony sub would be up to it? What I've read about Sony subs would make me worry a bit on that question... |
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Silver Member Username: GavincummPost Number: 269 Registered: Feb-05 | HSU research is finally back into the car subwoofer market! Finally, a subwoofer that I would buy for my car that is sanely priced and sounds great for all music! Before, the only ones that I liked were from Morel, and were very expensive |
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New member Username: Ns158New Haven , Ct Usa Post Number: 9 Registered: Sep-05 | I think the answer is obvious. Car sub's do not belong in your home theater. Not to mention the fact that you are running it w/ a shelf system. Don't mean to pick on ya but come on, you make it so easy. |