I want to get some sort of sub for my 96 f150 ex cab but dont want to take up a bunch of space with a amp/boxs/etc so I am looking into a 10' 200W RMS built in amp bazooka tube..Are they any good? Hows the sound? thanks

 

anyone had one?

 

ive heard they push around a lot of air, but as far as bass it's not too much, im sure they're alright but why dont you go with something like 10" Infinity sub w/ built in amp, they take up very little space and i think they look a little better than the bazookas

 

i have one 10inch subs with built in amp in my truck sounds great not much space taken up it's 600 watts

 

what kind of sub with a build in amp would you recommend? Iv been looking on ebay..

 

I think they are talking about basslinks

**600!!!w00t**

 

I dont see any 600watt basslinks,200w is the biggest, heres the link..
http://www.infinitysystems.com/carau...y.aspx?Ser=BSL can get it for about $174 on ebay..and

Heres the bazooka http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...715854941&rd=1

any other suggestions?

 

I haven't heard an Bakooza tubes lately, but I've had some older ones, and they sound great. Its a really deep bass so you need good mids and highs or all you're gonna hear is bass. If you can find a blown out bazooza tube, just replace the sub with your favorite sub and it will sound good also. I replaced an 8" bazooka with a JL Audio 8w0 and it sounded great.

 

I have a couple of things to say about Bazookas. So many people think they're "not cool", so they don't like them. It's one of those products that people will pass judgement on to others when they, in fact, have never even heard them. It's an ego thing. I see it all the time. Showoff, ego types would rather buy some expensive subs just so they can say they have them, for showoff ego reasons. Know what I mean. They may be some lazy-*** who does a crummy installation, and the subs may sound like ****. But that's OK, because their ego gets massaged when they point out to everyone that they have expensive Brand X, even though the dork down the street who has the Bazooka can kick his *** with his system. We are a bunch of fickle jerks sometimes. Do a blind test with some good amplified 10" Bazookas and you will be shocked. And I would never own anything with an Infinity amp in it, having suffered through owning 2 of them previously. Just my personal experience.

 

thanks for the info,I have heard also infinity is not the best for reliability either..So those with bazookas like them?

 

your not going to find unless your made it yourself
i made my own took a sony bazooka took out the sub put in something else can't remember the make and then i look on www.jcw.com and found an amp attached it to the box presto 600 watts

 

the main reason i dont like bazookas is because of the ones ive heard didnt sound very good, im not saying they're all bad or anything like that, it's possible the ones ive heard sucked @$$ bc like one kid had 2 12" bazookas and thought he was badass whenever he played it it made my spine shiver from the crappyness of it, its just my personal experience, im not dissing all of them but the ones ive heard sucked, but i have thought about putting them in my truck just to see what they're like, if they work for you then thats great, but ive already spent money on my subs and i dont really feel like buying any more

 

decisions decisions

 

The 1st sub system I had was a Bazooka EL8 off a Rockford 150.1. It sucked.

For one, Bazooka's are at the low end of the food chain when it comes to bass. They serve a purpose but you can do much better. The reason some think they have great bass is because its a ported enclosure with a really high tuning frequency (around 40hz) and this gives a lot of upper end low frequency response that to the untrained ear sounds "substantial" A properly tuned Sound Quality sub system would generally be tuned somewhere between 28 and 32 hz and would have a much flatter frequency response curve. The Bazooka is very peaky and by definition is not a SQ unit.

Also, regarding the comment about sticking any ole sub in a bazooka tube is just not a good thing to do. Drivers are made with specific enclosures in mind and ever driver is different. You need to match the specs of the tube up with the Thiele/Small specs of a perspective driver. For example, sticking a sub designed solely for sealed enclosures into a tube would provide terrible results.

Bazookas are a good way to augment a mediocre stock or basic audio system but if you are going beyond that get a custom made enclosure mated to the correct sub and you will be much more happy.

For more info check out www.caraudioforum.com or www.elitecaraudio.com
Do a search on Bazookas...

 

bazooka = garbage