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Okay so, I'm getting this gcon 15 and i always here my uncle nem talking about the 15 and the surface are of the the cone and the area of space in the car and stuff like that but what does it all mean i dont understand. like he says his 2 18 xcons would be perfect in my van because of the room for the sound but can someone explain to me what that means?

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You're asking an extremely vague question that would require an extremely long and detailed explanation.

The short of it is that it sound is created by the movement of air. The more air you move, the louder the sound will be. With bass it's a little more difficult to fill a large listening space with sound than it is a smaller listening space, which means if you are in a large listening space (like your van) you generally need to move more air to have the same output as a smaller listening space (like a compact car). If you took a 12" subwoofer and put it in compact car & measured it's output and then put that 12" subwoofer in your van and measured the output again, the output when in the compact car would end up being louder.

The amount of air a subwoofer can move is called it's displacement, and it's determined by the size of the cone and the amount of excursion the subwoofer is capable of. So a subwoofer with a larger diameter cone, like an 18", is going to move more air than a subwoofer with a smaller cone, which means more potential output (assuming excursion and listening space are equivalent). However, large diameter drivers generally require a larger enclosure volume than smaller speakers, so you need to have more room available for the enclosure with a larger diameter subwoofer.

In your van you have the advantage of having enough airspace to allow you to properly fit a pair of large diameter subwoofers, which is good. On the down side, and you also have more listening space to deal with when trying to create bass. If your goal was to create loud bass, your best option would be to use large diameter subwoofers with decent amount of excursion to create more air movement inside your large listening space which will allow you the ability to create louder bass.

That's Bass 101 in a nutshell. Obviously there is much more to it, but that's the very basics in layman's terms.

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You're asking an extremely vague question that would require an extremely long and detailed explanation.

The short of it is that it sound is created by the movement of air. The more air you move, the louder the sound will be. With bass it's a little more difficult to fill a large listening space with sound than it is a smaller listening space, which means if you are in a large listening space (like your van) you generally need to move more air to have the same output as a smaller listening space (like a compact car). If you took a 12" subwoofer and put it in compact car & measured it's output and then put that 12" subwoofer in your van and measured the output again, the output when in the compact car would end up being louder.

The amount of air a subwoofer can move is called it's displacement, and it's determined by the size of the cone and the amount of excursion the subwoofer is capable of. So a subwoofer with a larger diameter cone, like an 18", is going to move more air than a subwoofer with a smaller cone, which means more potential output (assuming excursion and listening space are equivalent). However, large diameter drivers generally require a larger enclosure volume than smaller speakers, so you need to have more room available for the enclosure with a larger diameter subwoofer.

In your van you have the advantage of having enough airspace to allow you to properly fit a pair of large diameter subwoofers, which is good. On the down side, and you also have more listening space to deal with when trying to create bass. If your goal was to create loud bass, your best option would be to use large diameter subwoofers with decent amount of excursion to create more air movement inside your large listening space which will allow you the ability to create louder bass.

That's Bass 101 in a nutshell. Obviously there is much more to it, but that's the very basics in layman's terms.

he pretty much said it all lol ^^^

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okay cool man thanks i got it now. so like would 2 15's sound good in there as apposed to listening space being filled?

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okay cool man thanks i got it now. so like would 2 15's sound good in there as apposed to listening space being filled?

Two properly setup fifteens have the potential to get loud in pretty much any vehicle.

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okay cool man thanks i got it now. so like would 2 15's sound good in there as apposed to listening space being filled?

Do you mean compared to 2 18's? Not sure what you're asking.

Also, "Sound good" is completely subjective so could you better define what you're after?

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Okay meant louder with the fact listening space would they get loud i mean im not getting to 18s that was just a example because nem has them. but yes 2 15's get loud and ricksi kinda already answered it.

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