Behind the seat subwoofer box.

[rich weyand]

"... that in no way has enough bass for me, let alone more than enough...." Have you heard one, or did you just go "8 inch, too small, pah"?

The Lanzar has a 50-150 Hz adjustable LOW-PASS filter -- that means it doesn't START until you are under 150 Hz, or even 50 Hz. Look, you're not gonna win any gas station subwoofer competitions with this, but that's not the point. Like I said, I like the sound FLAT into the basement, not boomy-boomy over-thumpified. You can make up for a lot in an integrated unit where you can set up the electronics to pre-condition the signal. You basically feed it with the inverse of the mechanical response to get flat response.

And I wanted to hang onto some room behind the seat, or I could have gone with a pair of the Lanzar 10 inchers, which would maybe be more to your taste.

How big a subwoofer needs to be depends on how big the volume is. It's all a function of how much air it has to move. Our cabs are tiny. In my TV room, I have a 120-pound 15" ported subwoofer, 2'H x 2'D x 18"W, with a 350W RMS amp, flat at 103dB down below 20 Hz. That rocks the whole house, and I have to keep it throttled back when the missus is home. Will the Lanzar compete with that? Uh, no.

All the same, the Lanzar 8" does a nice job in the truck, at my listening levels. And it's very tight and crisp, not boomy, which I cannot stand.

BTW, in college I lived in a house called the Dark Side of the Moon. I had a tri-amped system there, with six 60-watt linear mono amps, one on each channel. That would rock.

Also try Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" from the Gaucho album as a test track. Nice.