• Business and Finance
• Family
• Computers and Internet
• Auto and Trucks
• Education
• Health
• Hobbies
• Home Improvement
• Legal
• Marketing

• Home
• Arthur's Articles Home
• Browse Categories
• Browse Authors
• Submit an Article
• Search for Articles

Home » Auto And Trucks Articles » Deck Out Your Dodge With Custom Subwoofer Enclosures

Deck out your Dodge with Custom Subwoofer Enclosures

Big booming sound unfortunately does not quite describe the stock stereo system on a Dodge Ram, Dodge Dakota, or Dodge SUV. Although the sound system might be a decent one, or even good when splurging for the premium stock system, the manufacturer leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to big and booming sound. Buying a good amplifier and sub woofer for your new truck can give you the big bass sound that you want when rolling down the road.

When picking up a sub woofer and amp it's also important to purchase a high quality subwoofer box to hold them. Custom subwoofer enclosures will greatly improve the performance of the sub woofer by preventing the out of phase sound waves from the rear combining with the in phase sound waves from the front. Therefore, you'll be getting a nice clean big bass sound while still being able to hear quality high and middle notes. Whether you're listening to hip hop, rock, R & B, blues, country, or classical music, a top of the line sub woofer, amplifier, and truck subwoofer box will greatly increase the listening experience in your Dodge Ram, Dodge Dakota, or Dodge SUV.

Choosing the right subwoofer box for your Dodge Ram is extremely important for a variety of reasons. Space is always a major issue when installing a sub woofer, amplifier, and truck subwoofer box, especially when there isn't much room to begin with. Custom subwoofer enclosures are made to fit your specific model of Dodge so that you can save more room for legs, supplies, and any thing else you might want in your truck. The custom design of the subwoofer box for you truck will also blend in with the vehicle interior so that it looks as if it was part of the original. This will prevent the potential theft of your system because of the fact that most people won't even know it's there. Custom subwoofer enclosures also protect your sub woofer and amplifier from accidents occurring within the truck such as someone stepping on them, coffee spills, or any other disaster.

For the Dodge Ram, audio manufacturers offer a variety of custom subwoofer enclosures for the Standard, Extended Cab, Quad Cab, and Mega Cab models. For the Standard, theyoffer Dual custom subwoofer enclosures, a console subwoofer box, and a dual sub woofer box. The Extended Cab section offers a console subwoofer box, MTX Thunderform subwoofer boxes, a single custom subwoofer enclosure, and a pair of speaker boxes. Quad Cab Dodge Ram has a variety of selections including a Bassforms Fiberglass dual 10 custom subwoofer enclosure, as well as a MTX Thunderform custom subwoofer enclosure. While for the Mega Cab they offer a UTS dual subwoofer box and a BTS dual subwoofer box.

Dealers have quite a selection for owners of the Dodge Dakota as well which includes a down sub woofer box, a console subwoofer box, an extended cab baffle, Thunderform subwoofer enclosures, and a pair of speaker boxes.

For those driving a Dodge SUV, audio dealers have an MTX Thunderform single speaker box, a Bassforms Fiberglass Universal SUV Dual 12 subwoofer enclosure, and a dual subwoofer box.

Only the best materials should be used for custom subwoofer enclosures to make sure that they'll last and handle the bass of your new system. Medium density fiberboard should be utilized to prevent resonance and create the best sound from your amp and sub woofer. The professionals carry top name brand amplifiers that match up impeccably with theirtop notch subwoofer enclosures so that you'll save space and be riding in style. Set up your new system using professional car and truck audio experts and get the sound you've been looking for.

And here is another random article you might be interested in...

Monitoring Macedonia

Close to 500,000 people - one in four - live under the poverty line in a country where the average monthly salary is less than 150 US dollars. More than one in three members of the workforce are chronically unemployed. With inflation up 5.5% in the last 12 months and taxes - borne disproportionately by the poor and the working class - at 37% of GDP, life is tough in this small, landlocked country. When faced with the choice between raising VAT from 5% to 19% on bare necessities (such as bread and milk), or extending the "temporary" "war" tax (0.5% on all financial transactions) - the finance minister of Macedonia, after an emotional all-night consultation involving the Prime Minister, chose the latter. The "war" tax brought in the equivalent of 2% of GDP (on an annualized basis) since it was introduced in July this year and helped to contain a dangerously soaring budget deficit, now at 9% (and rising) of a shrinking GDP. Yet, the controversial decision to extend it brought on sharp rebukes by local tax experts. The finance ministry also plans to cut expenditures by a further 50 million US dollars.

This gaping hole in public finances is not the result of profligacy. Most of the government's budget is "locked" into paying pensions, state obligations, wages, and other mandatory items. Only 2% are discretionary. The vertiginous 15% of GDP tilt from surplus to deficit is the direct result of the six months of civil war that gripped Macedonia between February and August this year. The damages were direct - in new military spending, increased security expenditures, and about 500,000 US dollars a day used to accommodate and feed c. 80,000 internally displaced citizens, most of them non-Albanian Macedonians. But the war also had indirect consequences. The tax base shrank as GDP collapsed by at least 4-5% and industrial production contracted by 9-10%. The direct damages to the agricultural sector alone are estimated to be c. 100 million US dollars. The textiles sector has suffered even more. At least 17% of the country became physically inaccessible and the panic that gripped the population well into July interrupted tax collection. Tax, customs, and excise revenues, VAT excepted, decreased by 20-40% (!). The government was forced to use some of the proceeds of the sale of the telecom company, Makedonski Telekom, to MATAV.

In an effort to stem the monetary flood and to fend off potential currency speculation (which consumed more than 100 million US dollars of the National Bank's reserves by mid-June) - the central bank was forced to raise interest rates and to absorb excess liquidity. On October 15, one week and two weeks treasury bills (zero coupons) yielded 11% to maturity - and the same bills for 28 days yield 17%, a yield curve which signals distrust in the macroeconomic stability of the country. Eerily, after a brief, speculation driven, spurt, the currency settled to its 4 years old average exchange rate of 31 to the DM and 67 to the US dollar.

In its ten years of independence - mostly due to external shocks such as trade sanctions and wars - Macedonia has developed a chronic case of acute trade deficit, equal to c. 15% of GDP (c. half a billion US dollars annually). Luckily for it, unilateral transfers - remittances by expatriates, international aid and grants, international credits, and growing, though small, foreign direct investment - served to ameliorate the problem. The World Bank alone has invested more than 550 million US dollars in Macedonia since 1991. But a sharp collapse in exports (by c. 20%), coupled with increased foreign exchange expenditures on weaponry, and the drying up of Albanian remittances (at least through official channels) - have exacerbated the financing gap that Macedonia faces from a projected zero to more than 100 million US dollars in 2001.

The Macedonian side has a vested interest in exaggerating both the damages of the civil war and its financing needs. Macedonia, to its great detriment, has long been addicted to foreign aid. Nor does it seem to have any coherent plan to cope with the crisis - ad hoc, stopgap, measures notwithstanding. The IMF was forced to place Macedonia under "Staff Monitoring" - the equivalent of freezing of all credit arrangements with the fund for a period of 6 months. This, though, does not prevent Macedonia from reverting to a standby arrangement down the road, or from participating in a donor conference.

Actually, Macedonia has received more financing and pledges for financing during the first 9 months of 2001 than during the comparable period last year. Spain has promised to finance the "Lera" hydroelectric power station. Italy has granted Macedonia 4 million US dollars in "urgent financial aid". The EU has earmarked 198 million euro to remedy war damages. The EU CARDS program (project financing) was signed (43 million euro). The World Bank added 37 million US dollars to 3 new projects since March 2001and has disbursed 15 million to projects already approved. And this is a partial list.

Yet, the majority of these funds - whether approved or pledged - are conditioned upon the fulfillment of the August 13th Ohrid Framework Agreement between the Macedonian and the Albanian political parties. The EU has made it abundantly clear that its financial assistance will be withheld if what it calls "Macedonian intransigence" continues. A donor conference, already postponed three times, had to be put off yet again indefinitely (though the World Bank expresses unfounded optimism regarding a date sometime in December). Such a conference is supposed to tackle Macedonia's balance of payments needs and the costs of reconstruction and implementation of the Framework Agreement. With each postponement, Macedonian disappointment and xenophobia grow. The West is seen widely as interested mainly to assist the Albanians at the expense of all other segments of the population. The euphoria that gripped Macedonia after the September 11 attacks on the USA ("now they will understand what it means to confront terrorism") - has evaporated. It was replaced by grim realism. The USA and the EU are bent on securing a pacified Macedonia. The IMF and the World Bank are subject to political considerations, constraints, and arm twisting. The economy is fast deteriorating. Macedonia has very few choices.