b8bboi

I don't care much about sub. With the kind of music I usually listen to, I care more about mids and highs. I'm fine with using the built-in sub in the front speakers. However, will adding a sub make my front speakers sound better?

Thanks.

accentsound

You say you do not care about subs, because you never had a real amplified sub in your car. Every type of music has some deep bass, All of it. You are missing out on 30 and some times more percent of the acoustic experience.

And if you tend to play your music loud regardless of the genre. 6 inch full range speakers will distort with bass with even a modest volume level. So to answer your question YES your mids and highs will sound better when you send to bass to a sub.

Then you add a low freq. bass blocker to your mids and keep the bass 100hz and down out of your mids and highs. Just adding a sub alone does not clean up the mid frequencies.

The thing about car audio is that if you change one thing and you have make sure to adjust the rest of the system to match.

b8bboi

Thank you. That's what I thought, too. Obviously, I'm a complete newbie at this.

markuskj

That is one approach but to be honest adding bass blockers is the sledghmmer approach in my humble opinion. A better way is to have the amp only send the right signal for the speaker, or use a separate EQ for this, or finally some HUs have this function (but the amp is the best option).

Subs are nice and as Accent said, do truly enhance the experience but I recon that good quality mids are better than low quality mids and sub so if money is a limiting factor - go for the best mids you can find, control what they "hear" and then sample a sub later if you want to get more from the sound.

Lastly - what built in sub do you mean mate?

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