Sub drowned out

[ginno]

Hey guys just put my cabinet together and have had some disappointing results with the subwoofer.

It sounded really nice when the cabinet was empty but now with the monitor shelf, front door, computer and extra monitor placed in the cabinet the subwoofer has no affect at all.

The arcade games sound ok but when i play music there is really no base at all.

The speackes are a set of Altec lansing with only a 10 Whatt woofer, still it puts out a fair bit of sound just the MDF really

[Crazy Cooter]

How do you have it mounted?  Is it fully enclosed in the cab or does it have a grill?

[ginno]

The subbie is mounted in its own little wooden box and just sits in the bottom of the cabinet, close to a 10 inch high gap i have accross the back of the cabinet

[Bumblebounces]

A 10 watt sub is way underpowered to be enclosed completely inside a 3/4 solid thick walled MDF box.  I have a similar cab but he sub is a 10 inch speaker with a 150 watt or so amp on it  (it's a set of Logitech Z560's).  Can't remember the exact spec on the sub output but it's supposedly a 400 watt system that includes 4 speakers and a sub.  Of course, that 400 watt spec is "music power" which is vastly different than RMS which is the only meaningful way to measure output power of an amplifier.

Still, I would think the amp for the sub would still be pushing at least 50-75 watts RMS which is enough to vibrate the 3/4 inch MDF cab it's sitting in.  No complaints about the sound when playing music but I have not really played music on it much.   So I am thinking of taking these overkill units out of the cab and making an mp3 juke with them, replacing with a cheap speaker set that will do the job for games.

Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions for making your sound better except "get a bigger sub" or "place the sub outside the cab where you can hear it."

Good luck

Bumble