I had nothing better to do so I read a few books over the weekend, maybe now I'll know a little bit more about things lol. I read Speakers: for Your Home and Automobile by Gordon McComb, Alvis J. Evans, and Eric J. Evans. This book has a lot of information and breaks everything down, I recommend you look for it. Then I read The Audiophile Loudspeaker Anyone Can Build by Gene Healy, this book was simple and had some good diagrams for building enclosures.
After I got done with those two I figured I'd step up and read some harder stuff so I read The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook by Vance Dickason. This took some time, and concentration but if you're technically minded, go for it. The book shows a lot of graphs with different dust-cap designs and their frequency responses and cone materials and how they respond.. it lets you decide for yourself what kind of speaker you want. This isn't the easiest book to get through, lots and lots of technical info.
A day after my head stopped throbbing from the cookbook, I picked up High Performance Loudspeakers (Fourth Edition) by Martin Colloms. This book focused more on the acoustical side of speakers. Good book to consider picking up at the library.

That's the reason I haven't been really active on here lately, I was trying to digest some books lol. But since I've read them I feel like I know a little more about the world. It has also showed me how marketing is playing the field too. Anyways, I was just going to say if you guys get bored and want to know specifications on speakers and acoustical designs, look for those books.

Since I've read these books I've decided to focus more on the acoustical side of my truck, I hope you guys do as well. 25% speaker, 75% enclosure.

 

wow, sounds like your more bored than I am romber. I'd have to be pretty bored to read books! I dont know, I've been watching the womens LPGA golf on TV lately, thats pretty bad. There are a few hotties on there though playing golf though! Ive been watching that while looking through summit magazines.

Maybe it explains in them books why your subs hit a lot louder with a decent cd player! You know how I took my subs and amp out of my truck, well me and my buddy hooked it up in his 97 F250. Well he has a nice 300 or so dollar alpine CD player, compared to my 90 dollar Kenwood. It sounded so much louder and better than when they were in my truck.

Its funny to see redneck trucks with sound systems. His truck has a 6" skyjacker and 33's, reg cab long bed. He better not blow my subs...

 

Haha sounds like you were pretty bored there.. golf? And what makes it even worse, was it was Women's golf lol. But I do have to say there's some good lookin ladies in there.