Well that's a great thought and all, but let's just crazily assume that a bass tubes enclosure is specificaly engineered for that specific driver... to be ultra effecient....and well they can sound better than most other setups on a price to performance ratio... but thats just MY OPINION..nothing specialOriginally posted by hoss@Feb 7 2004, 12:51 AM
i gotta agree. bass tubes are not good, they are like pre-fab boxes, only worse. with the bass tubes they match a bad woofer with an even worse box, and the results are... extra not good.
you want cheap bass that will blast a bass tube, get a tang band 8"(PM me and i can give you a link), a small-med box for an 8", and a small amp. cheaper, tighter, louder, better... end of story
P.S.--especially stay away from the gay NOS bass tubes
bass tubes enclosures might be specifically engineered for the driver, but i doubt it. how many have you taken apart and done T/S on the woofers?? cause all that i have done have been pretty bad. and the ported boxes they put them in are a joke.Originally posted by afi292+Feb 7 2004, 01:54 AM-->QUOTE (afi292 @ Feb 7 2004, 01:54 AM)<!--QuoteBegin-hossWell that's a great thought and all, but let's just crazily assume that a bass tubes enclosure is specificaly engineered for that specific driver... to be ultra effecient....and well they can sound better than most other setups on a price to performance ratio... but thats just MY OPINION..nothing special@Feb 7 2004, 12:51 AM
i gotta agree. bass tubes are not good, they are like pre-fab boxes, only worse. with the bass tubes they match a bad woofer with an even worse box, and the results are... extra not good.
you want cheap bass that will blast a bass tube, get a tang band 8"(PM me and i can give you a link), a small-med box for an 8", and a small amp. cheaper, tighter, louder, better... end of story
P.S.--especially stay away from the gay NOS bass tubes
anyways thats not what i was trying to argue, im just saying there are specific purposes that bass tubes are great applications for. [/b]
the right one in the right enclosure will...Originally posted by afi292@Feb 7 2004, 02:03 AM
Dude a speaker isnt going to hit lows as well as a subwoofer will..even if they are amplified... so wtf is up now ... N00b
Hey man, i'm just saying the bazooka bass tubes have been designed by engineers... and are designed to be A) cost effective, andOriginally posted by hoss+Feb 7 2004, 01:02 AM-->QUOTE (hoss @ Feb 7 2004, 01:02 AM)Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2004, 01:54 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-hossbass tubes enclosures might be specifically engineered for the driver, but i doubt it. how many have you taken apart and done T/S on the woofers?? cause all that i have done have been pretty bad. and the ported boxes they put them in are a joke.@Feb 7 2004, 12:51 AM
i gotta agree. bass tubes are not good, they are like pre-fab boxes, only worse. with the bass tubes they match a bad woofer with an even worse box, and the results are... extra not good.
you want cheap bass that will blast a bass tube, get a tang band 8"(PM me and i can give you a link), a small-med box for an 8", and a small amp. cheaper, tighter, louder, better... end of story
P.S.--especially stay away from the gay NOS bass tubes
Well that's a great thought and all, but let's just crazily assume that a bass tubes enclosure is specificaly engineered for that specific driver... to be ultra effecient....and well they can sound better than most other setups on a price to performance ratio... but thats just MY OPINION..nothing special
anyways thats not what i was trying to argue, im just saying there are specific purposes that bass tubes are great applications for.
you wanna talk caps... look at the other threads and read up on some facts.
oh yeah... listen to damon too, he is always right. no joke, i read it in a magazine once[/b]![]()
and i was in on it with alex... we knew what was going on, just having funFYI afi292 and I are friends. And no, he's not a n00b, he's built a few systems. We just get into it all the time about bass tubes and caps.[/b]
Keekles it was fun while it lastedOriginally posted by Twilight@Feb 7 2004, 05:30 PM
Damon, if you are running a 450W amp and add a cheap bass tube running around ~150W RMS, your sub is not going to be able to keep up with the speakers. I run a 200W 4 channel amp and it'd hardly be adequate for that.
Check out a Pioneer TS-305 subwoofer (10" will take 350w RMS) and get a cheap Profile amp to push it. Those two can probably be had for around the same price as a bass tube and will sound much, much better and louder. or take Hoss' advice and go with 1 or 2 Tang-Band 8's. They are like $30 each.
Bass tubes suck. The enclosure is tuned way, way too high (sometimes over 70 hz!) and has lousy low frequency extension.
FYI afi292 and I are friends. And no, he's not a n00b, he's built a few systems. We just get into it all the time about bass tubes and caps.