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As a guy in his very early 50's, just seeing this brings back so many memories of the car audio scene back in the late 80's early to mid 90's. Sparkomatic, Kraco, Craig, Realistic, etc... All the budget stuff. And with the right stuff paired together, it would actually sound pretty decent. Ive been doing this car audio stuff entirely way to long, and I still love it.
Cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this video BigD!! I had 4 of these where I used the subs in an infinite baffle configuration, even used their little amps, and these things pounded! Drove a 79 Monte Carlo with these 4 8s banging away, eventually moved up to 2 Pyramid free-air 12s with a Pyramid 800 watt 4 channel, I was in heaven then! I still think of these setups to this day!! Thanks for the flashbacks!
I do remember seeing these all over back then! For the price it was at in the early 90s, that wouldn't have been terrible if it wasn't for the port noise. I'm glad I managed to get my hands on a pair of non-powered 6.5" Bazooka tubes in the mid 90s which I used with a 75x2 amp in a couple different vehicles until 2000.
Thank you for this incredible video! I got two of these for £20 in the UK during the late 90s and run them in my Ford Capri. They were my first subwoofer setup. Once running through a Longmill crossover network and receiving just low frequencies they actually sounded pretty decent! I’ve been after one for years now for nostalgic purposes but can’t find any in the UK today. They also weren’t labelled Sparkomatic over here but were in every motorfactors (auto store) in the UK during the 90s. Thank you for the serious nostalgia and hopefully I’ll get my hands on one soon.
Back in high school, early 90’s this guy was telling me about his new Bazooka 10” sub he had just put in his Toyota MR2. After school we went to his car to listen to it and I remember being highly impressed for what it was. No really low bass to speak of, but the amount of mid bass that hit you was pretty astounding. Super hard hitting sub. First time I ever experienced nose flex at the time. Not the type of bass I was into, but impressive nonetheless. Now ask me about the guy who had two old school Savard 12”s in his Honda Accord and I will tell you that system set the standard for me back then. Those Savards were no joke.
In 1992 I bought my first vehicle...1971 Ford F100. It had a am radio, and one speaker in the middle of the dash. I went straight to K Mart and bought a Sparkomatic cassette fm radio and a bass cannon! In my mind,it was the best system ever! Thank you for the review!
We're spoiled today with the amount of watts that are available to us at such low prices. I love hooking up old low powered stuff to remind me how far my car audio adventure has gone, but also to show others what 10-20 watts is actually capable of. Heading to a car audio meet in a few weeks with 120 total watts. It'll be like showing up to a track day in a Miata and chasing down Corvettes!
I remember one of my first cars being a 77 Dodge Charger. We put a 50 watt Craig stereo and a pair of some 3 way 6x9 that I found in a wrecking yard. To a 16 year old kid in 1991, it bumped pretty decently.
I actually owned one of these. My buddy owed me some $ money and he gave it to me. I put a Sony 10" inch in it and it rocked my basement. I was like 18 ish at the time. this was like pre 2000. I was in my skateboarding , reefer slangin dayz. gettinto trouble. I'm like 40 now. This brings back mammoriez. Thank you. Cheers. Not many people know about the bass cannon. Lol. 👍💚💯
I used a pioneer 500 watt reciever to power it. the ohms were off. i wish i could have put it into a vehicle. i got a SKAR 10 in a bandpass now. same box that i had the Sony 10". fuckin rox. don't need anything else. I'd honestly go 8" if I could.
I had two of these in my Vega rig back then. They weren't strong enough with everything else so I yanked the internal amps out, wired the coils in series, and used a properly crossed over real 100 watts per channel amp. I also had to reinforce the port end to kill that exact noise he was talking about. The speakers really were good for the money. The amp was crap and the cabinet was under engineered. I solved all that. Used them for quit a while.
I ran 2 of these in my boat back in the 90's. I had them under the swim deck, on each side of the gas tank. Because of space limitations, and the fact that I didnt care too much if they got wet, they fit the need pretty well. I also had a dual 8 Bazooka tube in my Mustang Gt, then in my S10 convertible. I still have all of these things in my capped garage, the bass cannons, bazooka, mustang and s10, but not the boat. Lol
This was my first subwoofer given to me by a friend of a friend back in the early 90s. I was only 11 years old and tinkering with electronics amplifiers and stereos dreaming of one day having a car with a bad ass stereo. This was a real time-machine video for me today, and has certainly altered my mood for the better. I hope someday to come across one of these again, and restore it to its former glory.
I had one of these in a 89 Mitsubishi mighty max. Mounted it in the space behind the seat and I remember that I had to keep it turned down or it was too much bass for my taste. Brings back some good memories!
I still have mine. Took the speaker out and placed it in a bandpass hooked to my linear power 2202. It was so nice in a small truck. Now i have it in a 1cuft ported box and can get loud and clear.
back in the day a friend of mine had one, we also put the woofer in a bandpass, but used the original amp with a cigarette lighter plug attached for power. used it in his moms buick electra wagon. it didnt sound half bad.
For what it is this thing is awesome. I had one way back when and it was probably my first system and I been hooked ever since. I had many sparkomatic radios and eq's. I was watching this video thinking what if we hooked up like 10 of these in a hatchback? I think it would be kind of impressive.
Back in the 80s i had 300 watt Majestic amps and Electro Voice EVM 15s, 4 of each in a Chevy Station wagon with a Sony head unit and an 8 band Majestic eq/pre Amp. I worked at a stereo shop in Miami and we were doing big installs before people even knew about Bass music.(Miami Bass.) Quadradial and Vision records were the two main studios producing electronic music in Miami back then. Raheem and clay D, Luke Skywalker and two live crew. Bass Mekanik. Old school was the best.
ayeee, i had one of these under my computer desk in the late 90's early 2000's. it was honestly great, plus doubled as a foot rest with massage action.
Love the old school stuff you bring. I got into car audio in the mid 80’s. Good times. Looks like Sparkomatic just used the amp section from one of their under dash EQ/boosters for this. 🤔
God, I remember having one of these sparkomatic bass cannon in my used 1985 Hyundai pony hatchback back in the early 1990’s & it provided good low end to the tunes back in the day!👍 Yup the bass cannon rocked!🙂👍🙂
I best freind had one of these in his S-10 ! 😂 I remember it sounded horrible the port whistles and flutters 4sure! On all of them , but my cousin had a 6.5 inch Bazooka tube that would blow it away and hit them lows with NO problem! But them bass cannons definitely beat harder then just the factory stereo in an old 1982 S-10 , and that was in 1996 i was a senoir in highschool, sure do brings back some nostalgia 😁
The 90s car audio man alot of memories fun times... we did bazookas on ppi amps. Mb quarts on mids and highs alpine head unit and ppi preamp. Man that setup sounded good👍 ...
Omg I still have this bass canon in my shed lol but the amplifier went out in it shortly after I got it from a friend! It definitely sounded great back in the day
This brought back Sooo many great memories. I got one new in 94 in the discount bin at Western Auto. Had it in my 84 Nissan pu for years. For the port noise I heated the tube up and horned it, it wasn't perfect but better.
I had one of these and used it in my college apartment as part of my first "home theater" . I remember using a plastic flashlight as a remote lead. wired so if you slide the flashlight on it would signal the amp to turn on. It sounded horrible but is a great memory from my college years mid 90s.
I cannot tell u how many of them I installed back in the day, an we had some fun with that tube an 8in sub. Target used to carry them when they had a small Car Audio section.
I love that commercial. I was sporting an 8 inch Bazooka Tube in my pick-up that was mounted behind the seat. It was positioned on the passenger side and I remembered my buddy used to complain that it felt like his kidney was getting slugged from the back. It was great for what it was and that small cab.
Lol 😂 at one time I had 1 of these in my 89 Camaro RS ! Sounded ok at the time... it was the beginning days of my car audio obsession ! I upgraded to a custom fit box that had 2 kicker stillwater yellow letter 12s with a 800 watt Targa amp night and day difference ! Dont know the model but had a Alpine deck was sweet set up for the day !
I had a couple different base cannons growing up in the 90s I was a teen then the best one I ever had was a Jensen 10-in subwoofer Bass Cannon I even had those Optimus slim Truck Boxes too I know car audio has came a long way since then but boy back then this was the bee's knees I love the 90s
back in the early 00's i had a pair of passive bass tubes that i built into the ceiling of my bar/man cave above the bar. Lots of boom in my bar back in the day!
Back in 91 I had one of these in the back of an Impala Station Wagon and even though it wasn't much hooked up to a decent pioneer head unit it sounded okay.. ( no biggie but that's a paper pulp cone you can tell by the back and the front is probably coated...)
This was my first sub!! Had it bungee corded to the back seat of my mom's car... Eventually l took it apart and would put the Pioneer house speakers in after they left for work in the morning!! 😂
Nostalgia. lol. I had one of these in my Volvo dl240. So funny. Remember back in the days the factory radios in cars were so bad. This was designed to amplify an already amplified signal so maybe it might have been more than 13watts?! Who knows. Thanks for this kickback.
The amp mounting to the speaker magnet is actually smart design, they can add all the acoustic damping around the tube and the speaker should help cool the amp with it's voice coil venting on the magnet besides it pushing air all around it. I actually was thinking of these a few days ago lol, and wondered about having the speaker fire into the tube instead of out of it, then have a small compartment for the magnet and amp with a mesh back or something like that and no acoustic damping or port, just an open tube. I think there was versions like that. Another thing I just thought of, have speakers firing into both ends of a tube, then have bass ports along the side of the tube. Or maybe 3 drivers firing towards one another in 3 tube ends, then the tubes merge and curve into another tube that acts as a port. Not quite towards one another but facing a similar direction but angled slightly towards one another in their own tube openings, where those tubes merge, I hope that makes more sense lol.
I was in high school in the 90s and we had a buddy who worked at Kmart and had 6 of these in the back of an Olds delta 88. I was shocked how hard they went for some generic 8s in a PVC pipe. We used to pick on him and we drew "sparkomatic" logo's on his window with a window marker one time but it was all in good fun. My old fairmont had 4 MTX terminator 15s on a wall in the back on an old 800w Linear power amp. It was a great time in life for car audio people back in the day
I had one of these in my 1987 Ford Escort. When I bought a Mazda pick up it wouldn't fit behind the seat so I took everything out and built a plywood enclosure for it and mounted the amp inside the box. Worked out great for a while.
This brings me back. I had two of these in my Malibu back in 1993 with the color face Kraco tape player. I tore out the fiberglass dampening and stuffed it with poly fill. It helped with the port noise.
HOLY S**T I was rocking one of these in the trunk of my car back in Highschool. (mid 90's) The built in amp crapped out, so I ran it with a Rockford Punch 75. One channel for each voice coil. I fed the speaker wires through the port. You have no idea the level of nostalgia I'm feeling right now. (like Smashing Pumpkins 1979 levels of nostalgia)
I've always liked paper cone speakers, even some high-end ones use higher quality ones. The issue is when it's also the surround, or really cheap and deterioration prone. It's funny how it can be both one of the best and one of the worst materials for a speaker now that I think about it lol. Dali is a speaker brand that comes to mind, but they call it wood fiber.
I helped a friend install one of these in his single cab pickup in about 1998 or so years ago. I remember getting it tuned up and being disappointed at how it sounded, but it was still better than what he had. 13 watts sounds about right from what I can remember about how it sounded.
Big D this brings back high-school memories. A buddy of mine had thw same one in a Plymouth Lazer. Someone broke his hatchback glass and stole his bass tube. The 100 dollar tube cost him 400 dollars in glass.
I Asked..And you delivered, BigD! This was the one I was waiting for. I had both this one and the Radio Shack carpeted version. I still have the RS version (that has the gray carpeting) that I hope to put in the cargo area of my now outdated Suzuki SX4. I’m wondering if the guts of these tubes are the same 🤔. I’m going to have to say, no. Reason being is I’ve had this in the back of 4 cars/trucks in the time I’ve owned it (1993ish) and it’s always added serious bump and believe it would still turn heads towards the blacked out windows. The funny part is that each car I’ve put this in I’ve just added or spliced to the existing wires. Yes, even the relay wiring. My friend kept buying these and asking me to install them trying to ride the end of the “box wave” of the mid 90’s. Now you have me thinking that in the 13 years I’ve been driving stock that the caps may have dried out and you showing that it may have been the issue here is very concerning. 99 bucks was a good price for cheap bass at the time and the Sparkomatic I sold still NIB for around 75 in 97ish. Thanks for the memories and the upload!
Damn, I had 2 of those in my 89 camry back in the mid 90's. I've been trying to find one for my foxbody that I'm doing all period correct audio and somehow you found this before me. Nice find but I'm jealous. 😢
I fixed one of these for a friend many years ago,it had some broken tinsel leads. I wasn't expecting much from it,but it was a bit better than I expected. It was good enough to add a bit of low-end in the trunk of his Caddy for several years. Not too bad for a $5 yard sale find.
For what it was and the audio tech at the time for cars this thing was awsome. Compared to modern stuff and early 2000's yeah it's sub par but can't rightfully expect to be anything more.
My budget go to was Radio Shack. I had a Realistic 12" Subwoofer when I was 14. I iso loaded a pair of Realistic paper 8's in a ported enclosure. It was clean and surprisingly loud.
Awesome video! I had both the Sparkomatic bass cannon and the Radio Shack Realistic version back in the day. I stuffed a racketball into the port and it made a huge difference. Mounted on the passenger floorboard of a Pontiac Fiero!
Me and brother had one of these Bass bazooka tube by Sparkomatic. We had one in the ford XR2 car back in 1992 to 1994 in the UK. These were sold in the UK 🇬🇧 around £100 to £120 in the UK. I got a feeling I still got the amplifier sitting in the wardrobe at home for that Sparkomatic Bass bazooka tube. That amplifier has got two TDA7360 ICs that drives a 8in dual voice coil subwoofer.
Wow i know all my bass head friends growing up wanted one of these. I actually got to install one in a friends car. At first didnt sound so great but due to my install. I fixed and this little tube was awsome. Sad to see how much power actually came with it but still kool. Great video
I worked at Western Auto 1993-6 and I remember these over in the “stereo” section. A guy would come in a few times a week and put DJ Magic Mike in a head unit, select the tube.
I bought 2 12' sparkomatic subs from western auto in La......not the cannon thing but the subs. I believe they were $35 a piece at the time. They sounded pretty good in the boxes I made for them
The subwoofer looks exactly like the dual voice coil 8" Optimus I got from RadioShack waaaaaaay back as a kid. Was the first sub I ever built for my little stereo and later in college it was turned into a kick drum mic. Thanks for that little trip down memory lane!
The Bazooka Tubes in the 90's were the shit. My friend had a Chevy Blazer with 6 of the 10" Bazooka Tubes. It was stupid loud. Everyone wanted those. I had some 12" Savard Rap's that were in a dual bandpass box I got from Circuit City.
great video Big D. I have a set Sparkomatic ASK 3000, NOS., probably from the late 80s. They are a 4" Bi Amplified set of component door speakers. Each speaker has a 45 watt ( allegedly) amp built in to each speaker. The seperate tweeter has it's ow level control.I had these when I was young. I saw them on eBay, so I bought them. If you are interested, you may have them....I actually have a couple sets, but only one set new in the box. These were sort of where it all began for me Big D. I had a set them in my 78 Nova in the front doors. the rears were Pioneer TSX mounted on the rear deck....Let me know where to send them if you want them
I have an old Pioneer "The Pump" which i got with an old sony amp for 30€ a few years ago. Its extremely high sensitivity, even with a tiny 10w amp it got very loud. They were also available with a built in amp but i have the passive version.
I remember these and it is possible to change the port to eliminate that i remember building our own with plastic buckets with a 12 with wood front glued and screwd in and placed wood in the back it took awhile to figure out the length and placement of the port but once we did it worked amazing noe some of the buckets we had wasn't a standard 5gal can't remember what exactly was but we even done some as a ban pass style it was cool for mid 90s for what was feasible for some broke teens with our fors cars but we did manage to come in 2nd at a comp with some crazy setup and having some big timers give us compliments on the box and setup that we did in a escort exp and 15in sub home built box and some crafty components back then was fiddling in to electronics and learn what they did swapping things in a amp and just messing around with stuff was the fun days before adult hood full took hold now we were already working full time and most my cusions and my self already were out on our own by 17 but that was how things were back then some people had grow up quicker do to some serum stances thats personal matter and that wasn't always the greatest thing but now mid 40s telling my mistakes to my kids and wasn't never one to blame but myself for poor choices just kids today take no responsibility keep up great work and have wonderful day
No way! I don{t really watch car audio stuff but love watching the videos you upload on your other channel. I seen this channel pop up a couple times but never gave it the time of day. I had no idea this was your channel!!
Back in 97' I had a 8" MTX Roadthunder and a 200w TARGA amp in a square bass cannon that I guessed for the port size and length. It actually vibrated the mirrors on that little 8" sub and wimpy 200w MAX amp. I also had a optimus 50w amp running some radio shack 3 way 6x9 speakers.
This was my first subwoofer, had it between the seats in an 87 toyota hilux single cab. I ended up pulling the amp out and running it off channels 3 and 4 bridged of my first amp, i think it was a us audio 4 channel.
wow thats crazy, I remember having a broken one as a really young kid but it never had that amp as far as I knew, someone put a wire through the gain knob hole and I guess wired it very wrong inside haha, I was born in 91 actually
In the late 90's a buddy had 2 bazooka 10's with a Phoenix gold amp. That was loud, another had 2 jl audio 12's in a bandpass I think it was a fosgate with a separate amp for mb quart components could hear him at least a mile away. 4 cylinder mustang no less. The loudest was 2 kicker cvr 12's with a hifonics, he was losing his hearing early 30's. The guy with the jl setup was also going deaf. It's unusual to see the sparkomatic being built halfway decent
Myself I had a pair of eclipse 8810 in a measured non-ported cabinet p powered by Rockford fosgate. This was an upgrade to my pre-existing bazooka tubes . My installer use cinch straps come out then. Enjoy your content keep up the good work
In high-school in the early 90s, my cousin had one of these in his 79 Cutlass Supreme and I had one in my 75 Mustang II. They were pretty cool for what they were.
Sparklematic! Was some kmart blue light special stuff. I had a friend that had two. We had to keep kneez on the dash with that thing behind the seat of his 1970's chevy c10
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As a guy in his very early 50's, just seeing this brings back so many memories of the car audio scene back in the late 80's early to mid 90's. Sparkomatic, Kraco, Craig, Realistic, etc... All the budget stuff. And with the right stuff paired together, it would actually sound pretty decent. Ive been doing this car audio stuff entirely way to long, and I still love it.
@@Hippie459MN facts
It was awesome back then I even remember going to the "illegals" in phoenix
I remember all those you referenced along with radio shack and pyramid. those were the unknown crappy but good old days
Cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this video BigD!! I had 4 of these where I used the subs in an infinite baffle configuration, even used their little amps, and these things pounded! Drove a 79 Monte Carlo with these 4 8s banging away, eventually moved up to 2 Pyramid free-air 12s with a Pyramid 800 watt 4 channel, I was in heaven then! I still think of these setups to this day!! Thanks for the flashbacks!
Awesome man, I really do enjoy finding and testing out these old pieces and love to hear you guys talk about how you used them back in the day as well
i too had a 79 monte carlo in 1995! such a great great car! so easy to hook up systems in those old classic cars! 👍🏼👍🏼
Nice 😁
@@Jeffhoneck don't care if it was POS. It made me happy, all that matters! That was then, not now
@@donaldhastyjr4066 that's true. Props to you and the memories you made back then 👍🏻
The golden years of car audio! Loved the 90's car audio scene! Nothing but good times.
This was my first subwoofer! It was sooo cool to see it again
I do remember seeing these all over back then! For the price it was at in the early 90s, that wouldn't have been terrible if it wasn't for the port noise.
I'm glad I managed to get my hands on a pair of non-powered 6.5" Bazooka tubes in the mid 90s which I used with a 75x2 amp in a couple different vehicles until 2000.
I have a pair of those!!!
Thank you for this incredible video! I got two of these for £20 in the UK during the late 90s and run them in my Ford Capri. They were my first subwoofer setup. Once running through a Longmill crossover network and receiving just low frequencies they actually sounded pretty decent!
I’ve been after one for years now for nostalgic purposes but can’t find any in the UK today. They also weren’t labelled Sparkomatic over here but were in every motorfactors (auto store) in the UK during the 90s. Thank you for the serious nostalgia and hopefully I’ll get my hands on one soon.
Back in high school, early 90’s this guy was telling me about his new Bazooka 10” sub he had just put in his Toyota MR2. After school we went to his car to listen to it and I remember being highly impressed for what it was. No really low bass to speak of, but the amount of mid bass that hit you was pretty astounding. Super hard hitting sub. First time I ever experienced nose flex at the time. Not the type of bass I was into, but impressive nonetheless.
Now ask me about the guy who had two old school Savard 12”s in his Honda Accord and I will tell you that system set the standard for me back then. Those Savards were no joke.
Late 90s my buddy had a couple kickers he beat to hell in an 80s prelude those old hondas were good for bass!
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That's Funny
i think I Knew That Same Dude back in High School😁👍
Do you remember his name? This guys name was Brian. Probably a different guy, similar setup.
Unless you’re talking about the guy with the Bazooka. I don’t remember his name.
In 1992 I bought my first vehicle...1971 Ford F100. It had a am radio, and one speaker in the middle of the dash. I went straight to K Mart and bought a
Sparkomatic cassette fm radio and a bass cannon! In my mind,it was the best system ever! Thank you for the review!
It really didn't take much to make us happy back then
What a flash back i had one of these in the back of my car in Australia. It was ok. Looked impressive.
We're spoiled today with the amount of watts that are available to us at such low prices. I love hooking up old low powered stuff to remind me how far my car audio adventure has gone, but also to show others what 10-20 watts is actually capable of. Heading to a car audio meet in a few weeks with 120 total watts. It'll be like showing up to a track day in a Miata and chasing down Corvettes!
I remember one of my first cars being a 77 Dodge Charger. We put a 50 watt Craig stereo and a pair of some 3 way 6x9 that I found in a wrecking yard. To a 16 year old kid in 1991, it bumped pretty decently.
I actually owned one of these. My buddy owed me some $ money and he gave it to me. I put a Sony 10" inch in it and it rocked my basement. I was like 18 ish at the time. this was like pre 2000. I was in my skateboarding , reefer slangin dayz. gettinto trouble. I'm like 40 now. This brings back mammoriez. Thank you. Cheers. Not many people know about the bass cannon. Lol. 👍💚💯
I used a pioneer 500 watt reciever to power it. the ohms were off. i wish i could have put it into a vehicle. i got a SKAR 10 in a bandpass now. same box that i had the Sony 10". fuckin rox. don't need anything else. I'd honestly go 8" if I could.
Buddy had a 8" pioneer in a bandpass. back in the day. would rock your sox off. literally
he ended up with a Xtant and Rockfords, then went to JL's
nothing beat that pioneer though
I used to have two of those in the back of my chevy chevette back in 1992 good old days
The original Bazooka tubes are great those little sparkomatic things were weak AF though
I love it when you do videos like this. I had one of these back in the day, first subwoofer I ever owned! I bought mine from Canadian Tire.
My dad got that same put in his 1982 chrysler 5th Ave it got me into bass I think I was 12
My buddy had one in his Ford Taurus back in the 90's that got me into car audio. Cool to see it again cuz I couldn't remember what it was called.
I had two of these in my Vega rig back then. They weren't strong enough with everything else so I yanked the internal amps out, wired the coils in series, and used a properly crossed over real 100 watts per channel amp. I also had to reinforce the port end to kill that exact noise he was talking about. The speakers really were good for the money. The amp was crap and the cabinet was under engineered. I solved all that. Used them for quit a while.
I ran 2 of these in my boat back in the 90's. I had them under the swim deck, on each side of the gas tank. Because of space limitations, and the fact that I didnt care too much if they got wet, they fit the need pretty well. I also had a dual 8 Bazooka tube in my Mustang Gt, then in my S10 convertible. I still have all of these things in my capped garage, the bass cannons, bazooka, mustang and s10, but not the boat. Lol
Kind of an interesting design having the air movement through the voice coil cooling the amp
This was my first subwoofer given to me by a friend of a friend back in the early 90s. I was only 11 years old and tinkering with electronics amplifiers and stereos dreaming of one day having a car with a bad ass stereo. This was a real time-machine video for me today, and has certainly altered my mood for the better. I hope someday to come across one of these again, and restore it to its former glory.
I had one of these in a 89 Mitsubishi mighty max. Mounted it in the space behind the seat and I remember that I had to keep it turned down or it was too much bass for my taste. Brings back some good memories!
I still have mine. Took the speaker out and placed it in a bandpass hooked to my linear power 2202. It was so nice in a small truck. Now i have it in a 1cuft ported box and can get loud and clear.
back in the day a friend of mine had one, we also put the woofer in a bandpass, but used the original amp with a cigarette lighter plug attached for power. used it in his moms buick electra wagon. it didnt sound half bad.
I just recently got the kicker 10 inch bass tube with passive radiator and it hits way harder than I anticipated. Running on 500 watts.
The marine unit? We don't hear much about those.
Awe I remember those! They were distributed in the UK by a company called BOSS SOUND throughout the 90's xx
I had one of these in the 2000s in my truck I bought off eBay sounded pretty good
For what it is this thing is awesome. I had one way back when and it was probably my first system and I been hooked ever since. I had many sparkomatic radios and eq's. I was watching this video thinking what if we hooked up like 10 of these in a hatchback? I think it would be kind of impressive.
Back in the 80s i had 300 watt Majestic amps and Electro Voice EVM 15s, 4 of each in a Chevy Station wagon with a
Sony head unit and an 8 band Majestic eq/pre Amp. I worked at a stereo shop in Miami and we were doing big installs before people even knew about Bass music.(Miami Bass.) Quadradial and Vision records were the two main studios producing electronic music in Miami back then. Raheem and clay D, Luke Skywalker and two live crew. Bass Mekanik. Old school was the best.
69 bug
2 Pioneer 6x9 with one of these in the middle fit perfectly in the back.
Them were the days.
I remember that RadioShack ad! I was like 10yrs old dreaming about getting a car and loading it up with subs. Didn’t happen till my late teens
Total flashback to my first car and first dive into car audio. Had 2 of these in my 1985 Cutlass Supreme, with a Coustic cassette pull out head unit👍
ayeee, i had one of these under my computer desk in the late 90's early 2000's.
it was honestly great, plus doubled as a foot rest with massage action.
Love the old school stuff you bring. I got into car audio in the mid 80’s. Good times. Looks like Sparkomatic just used the amp section from one of their under dash
EQ/boosters for this. 🤔
Surprised to see the dual voice coil on that sub and the amp mounted to the woofer itself! Good video 👍
God, I remember having one of these sparkomatic bass cannon in my used 1985 Hyundai pony hatchback back in the early 1990’s & it provided good low end to the tunes back in the day!👍 Yup the bass cannon rocked!🙂👍🙂
I best freind had one of these in his S-10 ! 😂 I remember it sounded horrible the port whistles and flutters 4sure! On all of them , but my cousin had a 6.5 inch Bazooka tube that would blow it away and hit them lows with NO problem! But them bass cannons definitely beat harder then just the factory stereo in an old 1982 S-10 , and that was in 1996 i was a senoir in highschool, sure do brings back some nostalgia 😁
The 90s car audio man alot of memories fun times... we did bazookas on ppi amps. Mb quarts on mids and highs alpine head unit and ppi preamp. Man that setup sounded good👍 ...
Omg I still have this bass canon in my shed lol but the amplifier went out in it shortly after I got it from a friend! It definitely sounded great back in the day
This brought back Sooo many great memories. I got one new in 94 in the discount bin at Western Auto. Had it in my 84 Nissan pu for years. For the port noise I heated the tube up and horned it, it wasn't perfect but better.
I had one of these and used it in my college apartment as part of my first "home theater" . I remember using a plastic flashlight as a remote lead. wired so if you slide the flashlight on it would signal the amp to turn on. It sounded horrible but is a great memory from my college years mid 90s.
I cannot tell u how many of them I installed back in the day, an we had some fun with that tube an 8in sub.
Target used to carry them when they had a small Car Audio section.
Love it had 2 of those in my turbo Plymouth lazer in high school. Good old days lol
I love that commercial. I was sporting an 8 inch Bazooka Tube in my pick-up that was mounted behind the seat. It was positioned on the passenger side and I remembered my buddy used to complain that it felt like his kidney was getting slugged from the back. It was great for what it was and that small cab.
I have that EXACT set up in my 2000 Silverado single cab lol 8 inch Bazooka Tube behind the passenger seat
Lol 😂 at one time I had 1 of these in my 89 Camaro RS ! Sounded ok at the time... it was the beginning days of my car audio obsession ! I upgraded to a custom fit box that had 2 kicker stillwater yellow letter 12s with a 800 watt Targa amp night and day difference ! Dont know the model but had a Alpine deck was sweet set up for the day !
I still have a double ended 8” Bazooka tube from back in the day that I’d had in a pickup.
I had a couple different base cannons growing up in the 90s I was a teen then the best one I ever had was a Jensen 10-in subwoofer Bass Cannon I even had those Optimus slim Truck Boxes too I know car audio has came a long way since then but boy back then this was the bee's knees I love the 90s
My first subwoofer purchase in 1995! Bought it for $59 at Western Auto Parts.
back in the early 00's i had a pair of passive bass tubes that i built into the ceiling of my bar/man cave above the bar. Lots of boom in my bar back in the day!
I had one in my '83 Regal T-Type. I think I may still have it.
Back in 91 I had one of these in the back of an Impala Station Wagon and even though it wasn't much hooked up to a decent pioneer head unit it sounded okay.. ( no biggie but that's a paper pulp cone you can tell by the back and the front is probably coated...)
This was my first sub!!
Had it bungee corded to the back seat of my mom's car...
Eventually l took it apart and would put the Pioneer house speakers in after they left for work in the morning!!
😂
I have that same screwdriver and absolutely love it!! I've had it almost 20 years now. Lol
My entry into Bass back in 1993 was a 10 inch Jensen Bass Cannon. It sounded pretty good on 40 watts power.
Nostalgia. lol. I had one of these in my Volvo dl240. So funny. Remember back in the days the factory radios in cars were so bad. This was designed to amplify an already amplified signal so maybe it might have been more than 13watts?! Who knows. Thanks for this kickback.
The amp mounting to the speaker magnet is actually smart design, they can add all the acoustic damping around the tube and the speaker should help cool the amp with it's voice coil venting on the magnet besides it pushing air all around it. I actually was thinking of these a few days ago lol, and wondered about having the speaker fire into the tube instead of out of it, then have a small compartment for the magnet and amp with a mesh back or something like that and no acoustic damping or port, just an open tube. I think there was versions like that.
Another thing I just thought of, have speakers firing into both ends of a tube, then have bass ports along the side of the tube. Or maybe 3 drivers firing towards one another in 3 tube ends, then the tubes merge and curve into another tube that acts as a port. Not quite towards one another but facing a similar direction but angled slightly towards one another in their own tube openings, where those tubes merge, I hope that makes more sense lol.
I had one of these when they first came out. This takes me back..😎
I was in high school in the 90s and we had a buddy who worked at Kmart and had 6 of these in the back of an Olds delta 88. I was shocked how hard they went for some generic 8s in a PVC pipe. We used to pick on him and we drew "sparkomatic" logo's on his window with a window marker one time but it was all in good fun. My old fairmont had 4 MTX terminator 15s on a wall in the back on an old 800w Linear power amp. It was a great time in life for car audio people back in the day
I remember these when I was growing up. Here in the UK it was a Boss branded unit, so you know it's gotta bump 😂
I had one of these in my 1987 Ford Escort. When I bought a Mazda pick up it wouldn't fit behind the seat so I took everything out and built a plywood enclosure for it and mounted the amp inside the box. Worked out great for a while.
This brings me back. I had two of these in my Malibu back in 1993 with the color face Kraco tape player. I tore out the fiberglass dampening and stuffed it with poly fill. It helped with the port noise.
Awesome!
That was my first bass system as a teen. Bought it at Target. It’s so funny to learn all these years later it only made 30 watts.
Wow, I had one of these! Blast from the past!!!
Heck yeah. I had several of these back in the day. Sounded pretty good for what they were
HOLY S**T
I was rocking one of these in the trunk of my car back in Highschool. (mid 90's)
The built in amp crapped out, so I ran it with a Rockford Punch 75. One channel for each voice coil. I fed the speaker wires through the port.
You have no idea the level of nostalgia I'm feeling right now. (like Smashing Pumpkins 1979 levels of nostalgia)
Those were so cool! My cousin had one back in the day. How come they don't make them anymore? What happened to Sparkomatic ?
That woofer is 100% a paper cone - fun video - thanks
@@thejumbo what he said
I've always liked paper cone speakers, even some high-end ones use higher quality ones. The issue is when it's also the surround, or really cheap and deterioration prone. It's funny how it can be both one of the best and one of the worst materials for a speaker now that I think about it lol. Dali is a speaker brand that comes to mind, but they call it wood fiber.
You can use it to "drop da bass" or to eat your Aunt Tilly's potato salad. Equally effective at both applications.
Yes, once I pulled it out I noticed and did not correct in the video but I have added a note in the pinned comment. Thanks for keeping me honest 🤙
@@wal2 you liar. 😝
I helped a friend install one of these in his single cab pickup in about 1998 or so years ago. I remember getting it tuned up and being disappointed at how it sounded, but it was still better than what he had. 13 watts sounds about right from what I can remember about how it sounded.
Big D this brings back high-school memories. A buddy of mine had thw same one in a Plymouth Lazer. Someone broke his hatchback glass and stole his bass tube. The 100 dollar tube cost him 400 dollars in glass.
I Asked..And you delivered, BigD! This was the one I was waiting for. I had both this one and the Radio Shack carpeted version. I still have the RS version (that has the gray carpeting) that I hope to put in the cargo area of my now outdated Suzuki SX4. I’m wondering if the guts of these tubes are the same 🤔. I’m going to have to say, no. Reason being is I’ve had this in the back of 4 cars/trucks in the time I’ve owned it (1993ish) and it’s always added serious bump and believe it would still turn heads towards the blacked out windows. The funny part is that each car I’ve put this in I’ve just added or spliced to the existing wires. Yes, even the relay wiring. My friend kept buying these and asking me to install them trying to ride the end of the “box wave” of the mid 90’s. Now you have me thinking that in the 13 years I’ve been driving stock that the caps may have dried out and you showing that it may have been the issue here is very concerning. 99 bucks was a good price for cheap bass at the time and the Sparkomatic I sold still NIB for around 75 in 97ish. Thanks for the memories and the upload!
Damn, I had 2 of those in my 89 camry back in the mid 90's.
I've been trying to find one for my foxbody that I'm doing all period correct audio and somehow you found this before me. Nice find but I'm jealous. 😢
I fixed one of these for a friend many years ago,it had some broken tinsel leads. I wasn't expecting much from it,but it was a bit better than I expected. It was good enough to add a bit of low-end in the trunk of his Caddy for several years. Not too bad for a $5 yard sale find.
For what it was and the audio tech at the time for cars this thing was awsome. Compared to modern stuff and early 2000's yeah it's sub par but can't rightfully expect to be anything more.
My budget go to was Radio Shack. I had a Realistic 12" Subwoofer when I was 14. I iso loaded a pair of Realistic paper 8's in a ported enclosure. It was clean and surprisingly loud.
Radio Shack had some gems for sure
Awesome video! I had both the Sparkomatic bass cannon and the Radio Shack Realistic version back in the day. I stuffed a racketball into the port and it made a huge difference. Mounted on the passenger floorboard of a Pontiac Fiero!
Love these videos, keep them coming Big D !!
Great video. I'm getting one of these as a gift for a friend who wants a subwoofer for his KEF LS50s. ;-)
Me and brother had one of these Bass bazooka tube by Sparkomatic.
We had one in the ford XR2 car back in 1992 to 1994 in the UK.
These were sold in the UK 🇬🇧 around £100 to £120 in the UK.
I got a feeling I still got the amplifier sitting in the wardrobe at home for that Sparkomatic Bass bazooka tube.
That amplifier has got two TDA7360 ICs that drives a 8in dual voice coil subwoofer.
Wow i know all my bass head friends growing up wanted one of these. I actually got to install one in a friends car. At first didnt sound so great but due to my install. I fixed and this little tube was awsome. Sad to see how much power actually came with it but still kool. Great video
Bro the way I salivates over these things before I could drive.. So cool to see
I worked at Western Auto 1993-6 and I remember these over in the “stereo” section. A guy would come in a few times a week and put DJ Magic Mike in a head unit, select the tube.
You went way back with western auto 😢😢😢😢
@@210pitmasterjoey I’m an old.
I bought 2 12' sparkomatic subs from western auto in La......not the cannon thing but the subs. I believe they were $35 a piece at the time. They sounded pretty good in the boxes I made for them
The subwoofer looks exactly like the dual voice coil 8" Optimus I got from RadioShack waaaaaaay back as a kid. Was the first sub I ever built for my little stereo and later in college it was turned into a kick drum mic. Thanks for that little trip down memory lane!
Great video!! Keep them coming. Would be nice to see some Dr. Crankenstein subs on your channel. Used to run those back in the day
The Bazooka Tubes in the 90's were the shit. My friend had a Chevy Blazer with 6 of the 10" Bazooka Tubes. It was stupid loud. Everyone wanted those. I had some 12" Savard Rap's that were in a dual bandpass box I got from Circuit City.
My first sub. Purchased from Target. 1992
great video Big D. I have a set Sparkomatic ASK 3000, NOS., probably from the late 80s. They are a 4" Bi Amplified set of component door speakers. Each speaker has a 45 watt ( allegedly) amp built in to each speaker. The seperate tweeter has it's ow level control.I had these when I was young. I saw them on eBay, so I bought them. If you are interested, you may have them....I actually have a couple sets, but only one set new in the box. These were sort of where it all began for me Big D. I had a set them in my 78 Nova in the front doors. the rears were Pioneer TSX mounted on the rear deck....Let me know where to send them if you want them
I may or may not have some of those already 😊
I have an old Pioneer "The Pump" which i got with an old sony amp for 30€ a few years ago. Its extremely high sensitivity, even with a tiny 10w amp it got very loud. They were also available with a built in amp but i have the passive version.
I remember these and it is possible to change the port to eliminate that i remember building our own with plastic buckets with a 12 with wood front glued and screwd in and placed wood in the back it took awhile to figure out the length and placement of the port but once we did it worked amazing noe some of the buckets we had wasn't a standard 5gal can't remember what exactly was but we even done some as a ban pass style it was cool for mid 90s for what was feasible for some broke teens with our fors cars but we did manage to come in 2nd at a comp with some crazy setup and having some big timers give us compliments on the box and setup that we did in a escort exp and 15in sub home built box and some crafty components back then was fiddling in to electronics and learn what they did swapping things in a amp and just messing around with stuff was the fun days before adult hood full took hold now we were already working full time and most my cusions and my self already were out on our own by 17 but that was how things were back then some people had grow up quicker do to some serum stances thats personal matter and that wasn't always the greatest thing but now mid 40s telling my mistakes to my kids and wasn't never one to blame but myself for poor choices just kids today take no responsibility keep up great work and have wonderful day
8" MTX bass tube on a Thunder amp (180 or 240 if I remember right). In a tiny truck cab that thing pounded.
WOAH! I HAD 2 SPARKOMATIC BASS TUBES IN MY 83 CELICA IN 2004-2005! They sounded much better than nothing ;)
I had a few of those back in the day i had four of those in my camro
No way! I don{t really watch car audio stuff but love watching the videos you upload on your other channel. I seen this channel pop up a couple times but never gave it the time of day. I had no idea this was your channel!!
yes I separated the channels to put most of the old school stuff on this channel
Back in 97' I had a 8" MTX Roadthunder and a 200w TARGA amp in a square bass cannon that I guessed for the port size and length. It actually vibrated the mirrors on that little 8" sub and wimpy 200w MAX amp. I also had a optimus 50w amp running some radio shack 3 way 6x9 speakers.
This was my first subwoofer, had it between the seats in an 87 toyota hilux single cab. I ended up pulling the amp out and running it off channels 3 and 4 bridged of my first amp, i think it was a us audio 4 channel.
wow thats crazy, I remember having a broken one as a really young kid but it never had that amp as far as I knew, someone put a wire through the gain knob hole and I guess wired it very wrong inside haha, I was born in 91 actually
In the late 90's a buddy had 2 bazooka 10's with a Phoenix gold amp. That was loud, another had 2 jl audio 12's in a bandpass I think it was a fosgate with a separate amp for mb quart components could hear him at least a mile away. 4 cylinder mustang no less. The loudest was 2 kicker cvr 12's with a hifonics, he was losing his hearing early 30's. The guy with the jl setup was also going deaf. It's unusual to see the sparkomatic being built halfway decent
My friend had the Radio Shack version. Made a big difference in this Premier car but had that same noise.
Myself I had a pair of eclipse 8810 in a measured non-ported cabinet p powered by Rockford fosgate. This was an upgrade to my pre-existing bazooka tubes
. My installer use cinch straps come out then. Enjoy your content keep up the good work
Tubular bass!! This brings me back to my 6 inch Bazooka in a sub! What a cool way to make some bass!! Fun video!! Thanks for the great content!!
I had a pair of these in my 86 Bronco II in the mid 90s, I remember them being muddy and floppy, but kinda loud, and I was happy just being loud 🤷
In high-school in the early 90s, my cousin had one of these in his 79 Cutlass Supreme and I had one in my 75 Mustang II. They were pretty cool for what they were.
Sparklematic! Was some kmart blue light special stuff. I had a friend that had two. We had to keep kneez on the dash with that thing behind the seat of his 1970's chevy c10
Man back in the day I remember my buddies Honda CRX hatch with 2 bazooka 10s hit like crazy for some cheap ole subs!
My friends dad still has his in the back if his 83 S10 single cab and loved listening to the Fat Boys.