The Utility and Choosing of a Subwoofer
There are basically three types of car speakers and they are all cone shaped, tweeters, midranges and woofers are the three main types which play the high, intermediate and low frequencies respectively, however, the subwoofers are the speakers that, as their names show, are just below the capacity of a woofer. The cone diameter of a subwoofer roughly varies in between eight to fifteen inches and it is adept at reproducing the otherwise lost later octaves of music at say 100 Hz, that is where it beats the ordinary car speakers as they have a diameter of six and a half inch at best which is not good enough to deliver true bass notes.
Choosing a subwoofer can be a tricky business especially with so many brands around and so much difference in price, but here are a few guidelines you can refer to while choosing a subwoofer:
Always make sure that you check the subwoofer’s sound quality with your favorite music before buying anything.
Use an amplifier to listen to the music and make sure that you choose the same type of speakers to listen as you have in your car.
There are various types of enclosures for a subwoofer, including sealed, tube, bandpass and ported, therefore, choose carefully which one would be suited to you the best.
The volume levels and bass levels are important as well because you must make sure that the car subwoofer is tested at the same levels as you wish it to.
There are various types of enclosures available for you box, and depending on your demands the boxes will differ, but you need to understand that different enclosures will yield different results in terms of air-pressure and size, but if you opt for a good tube box, you might get all the three machines required to play high quality car audio at once, which are the subwoofer, the amplifier and the enclosure itself.