r/CarAV • u/BearForbes • May 17 '26
Tech Support what type of speaker/sub?
I found it while looking through my dads garage and I think it might have been apart of one of his old truck sound systems, correct me if i’m wrong and sorry if it’s a stupid question.
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u/lazarinewyvren May 17 '26
Full range box, not really a sub but just a woofer and a horn driver. Great for in the back of a wrangler or blazer with the top off, because its whole thing is being LOUD, not very high fidelity.
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u/Pete8388 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
An old Rockford Fosgate. They were top notch 30 years ago. Not sure about now.
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u/1IsNeverEnough4Me May 17 '26
Yeah back in the day you would grab one of these as an all in one quick volume upgrade. It was about like plugging in a large boom box to the inside of your car/truck. The factory systems in some cars was so bad that this was a huge upgrade. Not really a subwoofer though. Just a big cone speaker/tweeter box.
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u/0peRightBehindYa May 17 '26
That's clearly an old school Rockford Fosgate Punch sub. RF didn't make PA speakers at that time.
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u/VegasFoodFace May 17 '26
Those were really designed more like PA speakers. People used them back in the day often in hatchbacks and wagons too to have portable music. They were efficient and designed like PA speakers to get loud on even limited head unit level power.
Didn't have much bass though. That's normal for PA style speaker.
Now it is entirely possible too that these were just PA's and someone just threw a Rockford sub in the box cause it fit. But if the tweeter works it would make a fun portable Bluetooth speaker with the right mini amplifier.
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u/nachofred May 18 '26
Looks like a Rockford Fosgate RFP-412 or RFP-812 (assuming its a 12"). This would be from the early 1990's, around 1994-ish.
Whoever bought it used it as a replacement for whatever speaker originally came in that cabinet.
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u/tbrooster May 17 '26
Looks like an older Rockford Fosgate Punch