Originally posted by heywoodjablowme
usually when you reflect the bass off a solid object (ie rear wall of trunk or rear window) you typically will gain upto 3db. this is why it sounds better...cause it is typically louder.
BUT, is facing subwoofers FORWARD, so you can see them, actually firing the bass FORWARD too? In other words, in a typical subwoofer box, when you look at the subs HEAD ON, is THAT the direction the bass will be firing? No bass comes from the BACK END of a subwoofer box at all? So therefore, facing subs to see them when you open a trunk (head on) is going to make the bass hit that rear wall of the trunk because the subs are FACING that way, and then the bass wave will couple, causing up to a 3dB gain?