Originally posted by DJ Scotty
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?
yea SOME bass will be coming out the rear but the majority is coming from the front of the cone area. since bass is non-directional, sound wise it won't matter if they face front or rear, but there is a larger volume of frequencies coming from the front of the cone since there isn't wood, poly fill, etc to absorb the waves. hence more to reflect & louder volume