I am going to put 1 10" sub in a truck box in front of my feet in my open bow Carrera. What would sound better, a ported or sealed box? 

I am going to put 1 10" sub in a truck box in front of my feet in my open bow Carrera. What would sound better, a ported or sealed box? 

as far as i understand it....sealed is clean bass and ported is not. but ported "hits" harder then a sealed box.

The box I used was ported and the wooofers  pointed towad each other and sealed behind plexiglass. the ports were on top where the back of the speakers were and it had some awesome thud to it.  Best 100.00 bucks I spent at the swap meet and it was all new stuff but not name brand stuff and I never had a problem with.  I hated to pay the price for name brand stuff that I thought would get stolen anyways.

Nixon is correct.  The ported box hits much harder but if you are going for a nice sound go with the sealed box it has a much tighter bass hit.

Somewhere in my stash I had a book from many years ago when I worked at Radio Shack (When it WAS a cool place to shop).....Anyway, there are many mathematical equations based on technical info from your woofer or subwoofer manufacturer dictating exact optimum cabinet volume for any given speaker. They were usually VERY large numbers, so you could also equate smaller cabinet volumes and filter in port diameters and lengths to compensate for the smaller volumes. (Back then, most quality speaker crossover networks used light bulbs disguised as fuses as protection, beleive it or not. Light bulb filaments would not affect dynamic range where a fuse tended to muddy the mids/highs, and when replaced with fuses, an easy assumption, sound quality went to crap)

But enough telling how old I am..................

If I remember right, the important numbers were Resonate frequency the the Qe number.......been years guys. 

Today, music is very different, and all people want is "do it bump?", not audial intregrity, So probably not important as it was in those days.

As it is, I agree, a sealed box "hits" harder, but takes a ton of power to do it, where a ported box is far more efficient at the same SPL. The quality of the bass coming out? Well, depends on what you listen to I guess.

Ray