Under seat subs wanted

[dreamers]

Can anyone recommend some decent subs which fit under rx7 (FD) front seats?

I would love a pair as dont want to take up room in the boot. Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks in advance

[Martiny]

I have been searching for the same thing, never found anything ! There is a manufacturer that makes a really shallow sub, ermmm Kenwood, maybe?

[Red and Single]

I think the FD seats fit too low to get a sub under there I\'m afraid.
Mount a pair of 12" subs in your rear seat upright and you\'ll not loose hardly any boot space

[Martiny]

mm Pioneer are making one now, 8 CM deep.

http://www.incarexpress.co.uk/view_product.php?partno=TSSW124D

Might not fit under the seat, but might be good for back seat upright.

[Martiny]

These look nice, too.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_12_3/earthquake-sws-10-subwoofer-ph-1000-amplifier-7-2005.html

[dreamers]

I might just go for the upright 12" then. Friend has a sub he wants to get rid of (for free so I guess I may as well do that.

Thx for advice tho

[chrisJDM]

uuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm have you checked how much room is under there!!! :spank

[dreamers]

under where? seats or in boot?

[Andrew Harper]

I don\'t think your gonna fit a sub under those seats.....

I can\'t even fit my ipod adaptor under there!

I did think about putting a sub in the footwell a (like the NSX) but just takes up too much leg room. Gonna have to be the boot for me as well.

[Archbish]

Infinity used to do uber-skinny subs.  Don\'t know if you can get hold of them still tho...

[Andrew Harper]

Do you mean the Basslink system?

http://www.infinitysystems.com/caraudio/products.aspx

Infinity did make some shallow mount speakers in around \'98 I think but they were very expensive for what they were.

I\'ve been doing a lot of looking around for shallow mount subs and there are lot more around than there used to be (I think Panasonic and Pioneer were the first). Now Earthquake and other various speaker only makes have got involved. Found a company called illusion audio that seems to have no negative feedback at all. But I think they\'ve gone bust (again) They went bust once in 2000. But 4" of depth for a 15" Subwoofer is incredible. They essentially turn the speaker inside out so the voice coil is on the front.

http://www.illusionaudio.com/docs/carbon_subs.htm

I saw one of the Pioneer 8" shallow mount subs in it\'s enclosure recently. First time I\'ve seen one. I laughed because the box is so small, you could almost put it anywhere. It was pretty heavy though. Couldn\'t hear it though as it wasn\'t connected.

Oh yes, if you have an unlimited supply of £££££ you could buy a Phase Linear Aliante Shallow Sub. I did look at one of these but you need a high quality audiophile amp (maybe Genesis Monoblock) producing at least 600w to make the thing even move.

http://www.phase-linear.de/produkte.asp?p=subwoofer&view=serie&grp=6&ser=44&lang=EN

[Archbish]

No. *Grin*

It was a while ago, but they were flat cone subwoofers with a very slim mounting depth.  Dunno why they stopped making them, but they rocked!!!

[Andrew Harper]

Haha!

Ok Archbish, in that case I\'ve never seen them!

I do remember the slim speaker range though (they had a green cone to them and the cone was convex).

[Archbish]

that\'s the one.

[elford_tim]

Trouble even with the shallow mount subs is that you\'ll still need to fit a box around them and even if you leave no clearance between the floor of the box and the magnet, you\'ve just gained at least another 10mm thanks to the thickness of the MDF...