I recently aquired 2 12" Audiobahn AW1206T subs and an Audiobahn A2300HCT amp from a buddy. Does anyone know if these subs are reccomended for a sealed or ported enclosure? Is there a certain way to wire the speakers and amp up to get the best sound out of the setup?

With those subs and amp, you have several combinations. Now if it were me, i would be looking for the most hard hitting bass. You could build a ported enclosure (which is about twice the size as a sealed) an tune it to the prefered bass tone you want to hit the hardest. You could wire the the subs all in parallel to get 1 ohm. The amp will deliver 2400watts @ 1 ohm mono.

Now if you are more concerned about not blowing subs and not burning up amps, you could wire the subs in parallel, but use the stereo option and get 600watts x 2 @2 ohms watts. It won't hit as hard, but you won't have to worry about burning voice coils when you show off.

Either way, i would go with ported. sealed boxes are not as loud, and have a flat response curve. Ported boxes will have a response curve similar to a bell curve.

but IMO, sealed boxes start to sound wierd when you turn the volume up. I have a dual ported box that i made, and for the same wattage as some friends had, they couldn't hear theirs overs mine.

good luck.

Thanks for the help. I found a sealed box with 1.27 cu.ft. per chamber made for my camaro and I also found a ported box with 1.80 cu.ft per chamber. Would the ported box be enough cu.ft. for the speakers?

Here's the link's to the boxe's

Ported
http://cgi.ebay.com/CAMARO-FIREBIRD-...item3ef926ca79

Sealed
http://www.xmbox.net/camarotransam.html

Even with the ported box, there isn't enough volume in the box for best performance. There will be to much distortion in the bass tones at high volume. If you really want hard hitting, good sounding bass, you will need a box at least 3 cu/ft per chamber. So your probably talking 7-7.5 cu/ft of total space the box will take up in your car (chamber volume + sub volume + material volume + port volume)

In the case of those to boxes the sealed will sound better, but only because it is spec'd right.

How often do you use your back seats?

This is what i had in my camaro, and it got the job done.

i have 2 alpine type r comp speakers in mine with a sealed box .to keep your backseat use sealed box