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I remember all the bandpass craze at Bestbuy and Circuit City in the early 90s. The car audio rooms were so fun to play in!

@BobBob-dx1tv

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. Had to be told by my mom we’re leaving

@tminusoftexas3224

Жыл бұрын

Remember they had rooms just for sound systems. Great times.

@freeair7292

Жыл бұрын

​@@BobBob-dx1tv😂

@TheLolo919

Жыл бұрын

Yup q logic bandpass box with the Hott Set-Up 🤔

@ThickCutOhio

11 ай бұрын

I remember they would put a little glitter behind the plexiglass… man I miss the 90s

I grew up in the 90's I miss going to circuit city that was my favorite store. Seeing this audio equipment from the late nineties. Really brings back a lot of memories.

I absolutely love the old school content. 👏 👏 👏

Then you drill a hole in the side of the box...run wires thru and try and fit the biggest Lite-Glow neon you can in there. That's what we used to do...lol

Anyone else scroll through KZread, see the thumbnail and think, ooooo what do we have here. Love old school car audio

Always sounds better when clean. No different than my cars. Always rides better after cleaning.

I had a q-logic bandpass back then. The one with two 12's on 45 degree angles and three 3 inch aero ports up the face on both sides. To this day, that was the loudest 2 12 setup I've ever heard in person. On a 1000 watt memphis belle amp it set of car alarms as i drove down the street.

I remember seeing these at circuit city 😂. Man I wanted everything in that store. Damn you best buy 😂

As an 80’s baby I loved hanging out in the CC parking lot after working my day shift at old navy on a Saturday. I had friends that worked in the CC car audio installation and would hook me up with open box items. If a customer returned items that they didn’t want I would get a huge discount as well. Those was the days…. Being a teenager in the late 90’s and booming on a budget.

Circuit City. Core memory unlocked 🔓

That box got lucky.... Was stored in a damp environment, but not so damp that the MDF puffed up. For an easy to get plastic polish meguiares plastX (or a darn similar name) will work wonders on the medium and large scratches. It won't get them all out, but it smoothes them over and polishes them so they are MUCH less noticeable. It kicks butt with a power drill, you can't really overdue it, at least in my experience with a small foam pad. Works on radio faces and foggy headlights too, anything plastic.

@brutalbasspro

Жыл бұрын

Gauge faces too! Made my 40 year old truck speedo look brand new.

I miss Circuit City. It was a great store.

12:14 Memory flashback overload!!!🤯😵🥹

Total restoration project. New soft parts, paint and carpet

I remember that box,I used to work at Circuit City. But MTX was a Circuit City best seller.

My first set of subs was a trio of 10in blue thunders in a sealed box, loved it

@franku211rc

Жыл бұрын

I had 2 12s blue thunders,not in a bandpass box tho. First set of subs...hooked up to a unic amp 50x2 rms...lol

@neilsunk6352

Жыл бұрын

That box sounded so tight and clean. I was pushing it and my front with a thunder 4320

@TecniclyAwsm

6 ай бұрын

I had the triple and once i had the trapazoid box Road thunder single 12.

I rebuilt one, I threw in some kicker CVR 10’s, lengthened the ports to 6 inches each, fiberglassed and re-carpeted the enclosure. I wish I could post some picture, it turned out nice.

Circuit City was the best. I bought many sub systems from there. Their exchange and return policy was great.

I remember these acrylic bandpass boxes being popular around here in the late 90s. I always remember them having a certain distinct kind of thud to them. Was kind of cool.

@beerman9807

Жыл бұрын

i love the way they sound

@Thezuule1

Жыл бұрын

@@beerman9807 sounds like being young again! 😃

The old school bandpass boxes remind me of when i got my first speaker

There you go DJ Magic Mike and MC Madness the kings of bass

I ran a massive 3rd order bandpass back in the day with the Kicker 12" drivers angled 45 degrees towards each other and four four inch ports. It was a one-note wonder but would make your hair dance.

I worked for Circuit City back in the day. It was the most fun job I ever had. The Road shop was good times.

THIS IS MY JAM!!!! Lived in circuit city!!! Test it all baby!

Maaan i remember those days. Nobody knew how to build a bandpass box so we would always buy them but replace the woofers with upgraded ones. Some of the systems really hit hard!

I had this same bandpass box but with a single 10 back in the day, it was in a 1996 chevy blazer and it thumped brother. I did swap the sub and made it thump harder I always had big amps. Thanks for sharing Big D...

Sweet old school setup.

I just grabbed a like new Mtx bandpass tri enclosure loaded with the thunder 6000s 10 inch subwoofers and man these sound and look great for their age.

Wow! Dude what a score! Thanks for sharing that. Keep the videos coming man

that exact setup made alot of bass heads in the late 90s early 2000s

I loved Circuit City🥰

No way!! That was my first sub setup when I was young in my chevy corsica. Released the factory installed smoke within a month or so. 😂

Got to love Short Circuit!

Literally had that exact box in 12s had it in my 87 Buick Regal for 2 yrs then swapped out the subs for bigger better MTX 12s & upgraded that wire.... it held up great & freakin slammed

Takes me back. I worked at circuit silly when we had all these products in the store.

@raymo6795

Жыл бұрын

....good times Justin. I installed at a few small shops that sold Precision Power, Orion, Soundstream, Eclipse, MB Quart, Zapco...but we were a community. We hung out with the MTX guys at Circuit City and the Rockford guys at Bestbuys...I miss those days Justin...I now have a room in my house filled with 90s audio gear

It would be awesome if you ran a DATS sweep to see the impedance curve or maybe an RTA sweep to see the output curve.

@Oystein87

Жыл бұрын

Or do a sine sweep to messure it..

@eustahijelifetips

6 ай бұрын

​@@Oystein87lmao blud

@Oystein87

6 ай бұрын

@@eustahijelifetips ??

@eustahijelifetips

6 ай бұрын

@@Oystein87 what will you achieve with a sweep? Measure it with what? With a multimeter? What would you gain from that? What would that tell you exactly?

@Oystein87

6 ай бұрын

@@eustahijelifetips You can messure the impedance curve in the various freqencies and also output. It's pretty normal to do so think you better go and laugh somewhere else😉

This brand the Circuit City days is why I fell in love with car audio.

I love the old school stuff! Reminds me of working at Best Buy back in like 1997. I would love to see the old LA Sound bandpass subwoofer that was part of their display back then if you could find one! I believe it had two 10's in it and one giant port on the top. I saw one for sale in a pawn shop a few years back and kick myself for not buying it. I passed because the surrounds were shot (port big enough to put your hand inside). I'm also always on the lookout for the Parts Express carpeted 4th order bandpass boxes they used to sell around 1993-1995. I used to dream about the 15" version back before I was old enough to have my own money. lol! I can't find any info on those at all.

@D3M3NT3Dstrang3r

Жыл бұрын

I bought one of the LA Sound boxes from a pawn shop, it slapped for about 10 minutes until the old subs gave up. I made a replica of that box for 2 RF 10" subs and sealed it all up. That box would slam with nothing but a punch 45 on those 10s. More was better but that is all it took.

@KMFDM781

Жыл бұрын

@@D3M3NT3Dstrang3r I remember it sounded pretty good in the Best Buy display and I loved the box design. Doesn't surprise me about the stock drivers being flippity floppity cheapos. lol. That was my thought when I saw the box at the pawn shop....throw in some better subs. I have a soft spot for bandpass boxes and that one was super cool looking and different than any other manufacturers premade sub boxes. Their amps were trash though. I had an old hand-me-down Punch 40 bridged down to 2 ohm on 2 series 1 Punch 12's in parallel (maybe 160 watts RMS?) and it hit harder with that amp than the "400 watt" LA Sound.

@D3M3NT3Dstrang3r

Жыл бұрын

@@KMFDM781 Well you know they were all the rage then and I had several BP boxes up to that point, That box however was one of those that sounded really good. The drivers were crap, the box was well built. Very good bass low port noise even with low power.

I miss Circuit City. I loved that place. Way better pricing than Best "No" Buy. LOL.

@1rexrex

Жыл бұрын

They have a web presence again. Been a few years now. Not really a great value either.

This video giving heavy OSS nostalgia!

Old school content is GREAT !!!

You was thinking exactly what what I was thinking about changing out the wires but keeping it original to see what it sounded like was a good idea too. Old skool amps and subs for the win lol.

That maybe the thinnest speaker wire ever!

I love this old school stuff. Keep,it up😊😊

Meeemoriiiees! Back in the day was a great time to be ..humble beginings

great video Big D, takes me back

I like the commercial at the end. I haven't heard that in a long time. Nice video.

Crazy what the modern day equivalent of $650 bought back in the day. That dollar amount gets a lot louder now!

had one bout 25+ yrs ago on a old lanzar amp i loved that thing the box is long gone but i still got opti drive lanzar 500 amplifier and it still works

Upgrade ! New drivers - Better wiring - Big power - Full Send !!

My Dad owned a shop back then. To make them hit harder they'd take these bandpass boxes apart, tape off the surrounds and coat the woofers in a few layers of clear resin with ample drying time inbetween to give the cones more mass. They'd also coat the cardboard ports with resin as well because they were prone to falling apart. They'd all use them in their personal vehicles and use their vehicles to show the boxes off to customers to sell them. Otherwise they'd sit on the shelf because no one wanted them. Might be a few very stiff and shiny coned bandpass box woofers still around out there with some tweaked parameters because of my late Dad's techniques lol. They kinda had to do what they had to do back then to get sales.

@chrishuyler3580

Жыл бұрын

If you played them on the large showroom floor all you'd here was port noise, I remember this era of being able to demo a stack of different boxes at Circuit City or TweeterEtc. These boxes had to be tucked into a trunk behind a thick 80's or 90's interior to actually sound like they were producing bass, and with certain music they worked ok. However, I don't think I heard a decent sounding ported or bandpass box until JL Audio started building slot-port prefabs. It's a shame, because the same box volume with a few tweaks like a port that isn't made from a discarded paper towel roll, and these old subs will hit hard with far less power. I just picked up a similar pair of JBL 12"s but have yet to build a box for them.

@96kylar

Жыл бұрын

So, added more mass/weight to the cone. Bad idea. Bad idea. And there goes any efficiency they had. Edit- that would change the low FS but not in a good way unless they also changed the volume of each side. Glad I didn’t ever go there. Also, doing that, adds zero to power handling, sound, nothing.

@jxke

Жыл бұрын

@@96kylar wasn’t a bad idea at all. Worked awesomely. Plenty of people do it still. RobotUnderground does it for sure.

@jamms992

Жыл бұрын

​@@jxkeyep he does, also before and sweeps to so the difference it makes.

@LionWithTheLamb

Жыл бұрын

I had the TB12 and it didn't have cardboard tubes. It had dual ABS tubes ported at 50Hz. I emailed MTX and asked for a spec sheet, and they emailed one to me and they did it with in a few days.

My desk speaker setup at home uses a pair of a/d/s l300s along with an a/d/s sub 6 bandpass subwoofer, which was actually originally designed by a/d/s for their premium sound systems in late 80s/ early 90s land rovers. Sounds very clean and hits pretty low considering it's tiny footprint, along with no risk of driver damage from someone poking the center cap in or smth, also very efficient

Just think, how many stores and jobs were lost when the public got conformal making purchases online. I'm guilty of the same. I owned a mom and pop electronics shop. I started getting everything online. Lots of friends were worried about getting a virus, or having there identity stolen on the internet. I am very tech savvy had some virus in my day. I fixed it on my own. Removed virus protection, i found it would slow my computer down. I was using high speed cable and loved the speed. I remember suffering with dial up.

That box would be a cool little refurbishment project

I had the pleasure of working at C.C from 1998-2003 and just to let everyone know these subs where considered bad back in the day also. It’s cool to see it tho.

Just sold my banpass box from circuit city a few months ago powered by a jp23v1 i installed for a buddy,sounds really good

Old Skooool. Yea boi!

Not many except on the west coast know The Good Guys back in the 90s. I worked as an installer there then. When MTX came around then shook up the game pretty hard with affordable good quality pounding amps.

I really liked Circuit City they had every brand of portable cd player on the shelf

Had that back in the day

I had two MTX Thunder 7000 12's and they hit really hard in 1994 Ford Escort hatchback.

@robdogbme

3 ай бұрын

I had them as well but 15s and in a civic, they absolutely slapped

@martinramirezmi5457

3 ай бұрын

@@robdogbme I'm sure they did. 👍

We had one.Wish I had it again.

Bad ass always wanted one

Crazy thing guy by me in pa put this exact box on market place for 100 talked him down to 75! Let’s goooo

Reminds me of the old thunder 2000s I had. Actually just picked up a phoenix gold xs 12 in a purple bandpass myself.

Perfect to use in a ht

It does bump. 👍

The old Jensen XS dual 10" bandpass was solid back in the day wish I would have kept it

That guage of wire 🤯🤯 No spank you! Thank you for this blast from the past 👍👍

@Oystein87

6 ай бұрын

It's good enough for this weak stuff.. But not ideal

Had one of those, they were pretty badassed for the price.

Walmart used to sell MTX thunder kits with a single 12 and small amp in the same package. Did not come with a box. But I thought it looked cool back when I was 13.

Circuit city held great quality car audio

This cracks me up. My son bought an Acura and one of these was in the hatch. I threw it in my '65 Skylark. Sounds pretty good off an equally old Kenwood 350 watt amp. 😂

I have two of these boxes one has 10" skar SDR sub's and one has 10" Sony xplods both sound awesome and still use them

Classic

I had that exact Bandpass with T5500 12’s in it. It pounded pretty hard. Ended up selling it after a year or so and got a set of 12WO’s in a sealed spec enclosure.

@raymo6795

Жыл бұрын

...good stuff , Brother

Worked at circuit city in 2000. We never had any of these.

I got mine at sears, and had a 200 watt targa amp hooked up to them, i would turn on alarms with those!

@LionWithTheLamb

Жыл бұрын

Ahh the 200w Targa, I had one of those running my rear deck speakers.

I used to dream about these boxes 🤩🤩🤩

Had one of those in highschool but with blue cone subs in it .

Mtx needs to remake this!

I had 2 sets of those subs in MTX ported truck box's.

Back in the day as a young teenager I always dropped at these MTX setups. Never got one but they slammed on the displays at Best Buy, and Circuit City.

Nice box

Rolled with some terminators in my extended cab s10, with a clarion board in the day. MTX was everywhere (terminators, blue thunders, and the like) when I was stupid in 1993. I had the local “alternator guy” try and beef up my stock alt. That was a fun time, learning on all ends. The Jl Audio line came in hard around that time. A dude came down from the “big city” with his Denon amp and drivers and blew me away with his gear also. (Also a s10, with a shell) Edit- I’m still stupid to this day. ForTheLoveofAudio.

@raymo6795

Жыл бұрын

I am also stupid...I have a room filled with 90s audio gear

Those old blue thunder amps were so amazing for their time. Had a pair of the slightly newer version of this (silver powder coat with gold/blue emblem) - each one powering a 12" sub - kicker comps I think? 🔊🔊

I worked at best buy. MTX, Rockford, Alpine, Sony, Pioneer, and a few other budget subs were the shit! It was all about single din removable face plates back then so your shit doesn't get stolen lol

Shiny tiny basscube 👍🆙️

I had the version with dual 8" subs powered by a targa 2CH700 back in the day

Years ago I had a bandpass box made by American Bass. The subs faced each other and the was 1 square hole on top. I've been trying to find another one for about 10 years now!

The first speakers I ever bought, at a flee market. Where two 15 inch MTX Roadthunder II. On a Boss 605 4 channel

I had the single 12 version of this. MTX TB12. I pulled it apart and added a passive 85Hz low pass crossover. I gave this to a friend who wanted a subwoofer and he pulled the 12" sub and burnt the woofer box... I wasn't overly thrilled with that, but people do stupid things. I also upgraded mine to 14 gauge ofc wire.

As someone that worked in the installation bay at a circuit city. The road thunder series boxes were sold as the box with subs and as a combo with a matching road thunder series amp. This all happened the same year mtx joined "Pimp My Ride" it was junk mostly rebranded power acoustic stuff. I had legit mtx subs in my H22A swapped CRX at that time (kswap not a thing yet) just 2 tens on an audiobahn A2300HCX in 2004. Then in 2006 got a scion XB RS I built for audio you can find that in the 2008 car audio mags

@ZoeyR86

Жыл бұрын

I have about a dozen old kicker red and white k-logo 10,12,15's nib all 8ohm I found in an abandoned circuit city from apx 2000-2004

@raymo6795

Жыл бұрын

...that may have been a bit later, maybe 2005? That is when Mitek(MTX) sold out to cheap Asian labor...not sure of the year, but it is when all car amps went to shit

@ZoeyR86

Жыл бұрын

@raymo6795 I think it was the same year Tokyo drift hit DVD that everything turned to shit. It was odd though the higher end stuff was still around, but we got a big influx of budget mtx junk. I had so many people ask me, "Is that any good?" and me saying, "F, no grab the hifonics Brutus amp it won't do rated, but it will at least get in the ballpark. In fact, I had one guy with a 99 Jeep xj he wanted the most bang per watt possible. While hitting the lows hard. I sketched out a box that was a 14in sono tube with a 6in tube pvc pipe I formed into a dual 11in flare port with a pair of dayton 10 isobaric loaded and tuned for 28hz 2.9cuft net. It had no problem taking 1000w rms and doing 149.6db in a untreated xj it broke the rear view mirror off on the first hit and was so efficient that we turned the gain on the amp almost to zero his avic 1 had 5.5v rms rca and the amp was only putting out around 600w but the lows hit so hard the jeep was ripping it's self apart. He was beside himself with how crazy this odd looking tube box just smashed lows it peaked at 36hz at around +9db of gain in the cabin sealed +11 outlaw but got a bit choppy about 90hz witch is why I did proaudio 8in + 5.25in + horns as a 3way in the doors

@raymo6795

Жыл бұрын

@@ZoeyR86 , those were the days Brother. That jeep sounds like cool build….

Had same box that was loaded with blue thunders. Pounded hard for a cheap setup

If I remember, they did the 6ohm driver's so it would make a 3 ohm load for the amp, and with rise it would be the 4ohm+ but pull a little more out of the amp. JL was widely known for this

The best part of these old bandpass enclosures was how well they preserved the drivers 😂

@CarsandCats

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I have some Kickers from the mid 90's that are still perfect because they were in a bandpass for 25 years! They are mint.

@Oystein87

6 ай бұрын

No, not really.. They can in worst case catch more humidity in the box so it can go both ways. And with plexy glass they are also exposed to the sun etc depending on the storage. Storage and what material the surround on the drivers etc are key. Seen ALOT of drivers beeikg 50+ years old still looking like new and none of them was in bandpass boxes

@Oystein87

6 ай бұрын

​@@CarsandCatsbandpass has nothing to do with it. Storage and material is.

I had one like that with the red neon light.

I used to drool over these when I first got my L's.

That wire is fine for those speakers. Length is the key. You are at only about .02 to .03 ohms with that (looks like about 2 feet. maybe 3) for 20 awg wire. Doesn't look very cool, though :). Keep up the great videos. Old school stuff is so good!

@cpufrost

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. You would be surprised at what some typical 'high power' PA subs are wired with internally!