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I thought you said you were taking a break?! Lol. Always heard great things about audiofrog, just never heard them in person. Last nice system I did was a bit10 with hertz comps and it all just cost too much for me to do again. I like the boom boom more than hearing the yazz flute in the 3rd chair on the 4th row haha

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40 minutes ago, CWilliams said:

I thought you said you were taking a break?! Lol. Always heard great things about audiofrog, just never heard them in person. Last nice system I did was a bit10 with hertz comps and it all just cost too much for me to do again. I like the boom boom more than hearing the yazz flute in the 3rd chair on the 4th row haha

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Good thread, what did y’all end up doing ? Btw ima jl fanboy lol least worked for me and sound good. I’ve never really tried anything else but I’m sure there’s plenty of comparable subs out there. I just gotta be willing to try them. I like the idea of this center console for a sub. How did that work out got any more pics?

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I'd love to see this installed, this is just about the only way I would add a sub to my truck. I have a full system just sitting in boxes because I don't want to tear my sierra apart and mess with it.

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Well after I got it all installed it sounded like crap. My 8” alpines under the back seat would put it to shame. I knew it had to be the box. Turns out it was only .9 cf and tuned in the mid 50hz and its supposed to be double that size and tuned in the low to mid 30hz range. I dropped my truck off this morning for my local guy to build a new box. The only bad part is the console will have to go all the way to the edge of the back seat to get proper volume. Still waiting to hear back from nitchbox on getting my money back since it wasn’t what we agreed on. I will be back in town Monday to pick the truck up and I will give an update then.

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Alright guys I finally got in from work and was able to get my new console installed. I was able to ship the Nitchbox console back and get a refund due to him making the original console the wrong specs for the sub.

We also went ahead and installed the JL Fix82 and TWK D8 dsp. Jl C2 3.5” in the dash and I already had the C2 6x9 in the front doors. It sounds amazing, pricey but worth it IMO. This sub blends excellent with every day listening but can also get nasty when I want to crank it up.

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Any reason they could have extended the front of the box to the console to avoid taking up the back leg room? Looks like quite a bit of room in front of the box. Gorgeous box either way. I just can’t seem to get over losing the storage.


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38 minutes ago, Centex14 said:

Any reason they could have extended the front of the box to the console to avoid taking up the back leg room? Looks like quite a bit of room in front of the box. Gorgeous box either way. I just can’t seem to get over losing the storage.

Exact thought when I saw the pictures, Could probably make it look almost stock doing that.

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That was the only drawback to this design but there is an airbag control module right in between the seats on the floor and we couldn’t put this big ass sub right over it due to two reasons. The sub is too tall, the armrest would have been way too high, and the installer didn’t want the pressure of the sub blowing right down on top of that module. We could have brought the console all the way to the dash but then I would have lost my 110v plugs and the pull down compartment. But that wouldn’t matter because the sub would have had to stay in the same location at the back of the console.

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