Car sound system

Alpine does make excellent amps.

I wouldn't touch sony car audio, tho.

And The Kickers are ok... I would honestly get one good speaker instead of two crappy speakers, tho, like i tried telling you on the last page.

Because you're going to be getting them loud maybe 20% of the time, but the rest of the time, you're going to want something that SOUND DECENT!

I still say get a type-r 12, and drop it in 2.5@35, and you'll have something loud, that will also sound quite nice, and i've used both kicker and alpine in the past, so i'm not being biased.

2 12" type-x's in 3.0 cubes each @ 30hz with a hifonics BXi2000D (SQL setup)
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2 15" L7 in 9 cubic feet @ 38hz with the same amp (SPL setup)
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and this is how highly i regarded the Kickers

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Trust me, getting loud is fun once in a while, but in the long run you're going to wish you went with something that sounds good, cause you're gonna have to listen to it every day.

Here's my next project ;)

15" strokers for the back
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and custom 10" components for the doors
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This should sound good WHILE being loud. I got tired of tradeoffs.
 
heyman421 said:
Alpine does make excellent amps.

I wouldn't touch sony car audio, tho.

And The Kickers are ok... I would honestly get one good speaker instead of two crappy speakers, tho, like i tried telling you on the last page.

Because you're going to be getting them loud maybe 20% of the time, but the rest of the time, you're going to want something that SOUND DECENT!

I still say get a type-r 12, and drop it in 2.5@35, and you'll have something loud, that will also sound quite nice, and i've used both kicker and alpine in the past, so i'm not being biased.

2 12" type-x's in 3.0 cubes each @ 30hz with a hifonics BXi2000D (SQL setup)
30166gs.jpg


2 15" L7 in 9 cubic feet @ 38hz with the same amp (SPL setup)
22bb1.jpg

37tu1.jpg

51vq1.jpg


and this is how highly i regarded the Kickers

40vy.jpg


Trust me, getting loud is fun once in a while, but in the long run you're going to wish you went with something that sounds good, cause you're gonna have to listen to it every day.

Here's my next project ;)

15" strokers for the back
1104062352pb0.jpg

and custom 10" components for the doors
p1010054pc0.jpg


This should sound good WHILE being loud. I got tired of tradeoffs.
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Now how could i forget Cerwin Vega? lol.

Heres what i used to have for a starter system:

Single 12" Sony Xplod XS-L1237 in a 1.8cu slot ported box tuned @ 32hz for LOW bass! Pwered by a Sony Xplod 165watt x 2 @ 4 ohm, 250watt x 1 @ 4 ohm briged amp.
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And this is what i have now....

Single 12" Pioneer Premier 3000SPL 1000watt RMS 1 ohm subwoofer in the same enclosure powered by a HiFonics BXi1206D 1200watt RMS @ 1 ohm amp
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How do you know Xplod sucks? Did your cousin's uncle's cousin tell you? :rolleyes: I have never seen anyone, including myself, have a bad experience with Sony, I will say they are not the best. But, never failed and they sound pretty good, my mirrors are shaking constantly.
 
INTELCRAZY said:
How do you know Xplod sucks? Did your cousin's uncle's cousin tell you? :rolleyes: I have never seen anyone, including myself, have a bad experience with Sony, I will say they are not the best. But, never failed and they sound pretty good, my mirrors are shaking constantly.
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Sony certainly isnt bottom of the line, but they are lightyears away from the top. For the price, you can find better....believe me. The new "P5 turbo cones" are worthless and make the subwoofer sound worse and give it less xmax then the older Xplods.

The only good thing about my Xplod was it could handle power. I blew it with a 20hz test tone at 500watts RMS but thats besides the point, it took forever to blow. I used to run it 500watts RMS daily in that enclosure.

As for their amplifiers.....im using my old Xplod "1000watt" amp in my room hooked up to my old Ultra X-Connect 400watt PSU and it sounds great and gets pretty damn loud, louder then my home theater in the living room thats running 1,800watts total with 7.1 channel surround and im only using 3 speakers! Ran the amp at half gain in my living room with 3 speakers hooked up and it was loud and played for over 10 hours constantly and boy was it hot, but it never stopped.
 
for one thing if ur trying to say kickers dont sound good unless ur goin for the loud factor ur completely wrong that actually shows u know nothing if thats what u think
 
Dual_Corex2 said:
That looks pretty good.
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Is there anything else I am missing? That sub is 2 ohms right? So that amp will run the sub at 900 watts at 2 ohms? I couldnt find a 1 ohms sub but I guess that they are more expensive. Where did you get your pioneer premier 1 ohms sub? cause I cant find it at the sonicelectronix website.
 
the sub is dual 2, so run it in parallel to make 1 ohm

that hifonics wont put out 1/2 of what it advertises, tho

my bxi2006d was only pushing those L7's to 143dB, which is pathetic for an advertised 2000w

and what's that enclosure even tuned to? If you're going to use a prefabbed enclosure, i'd go sealed, as it's much harder to screw up a sealed enclosure.

And i can't say one way or the other about the pioneer, i've never heard one.

10.9mm on a "3000w" subwoofer leads me to believe that it's going to sound sloppy as hell, tho. It's definitely a SPL sub, as the xmax is the excursion where the cone of the sub stays perfectly linear, and thus creates 0% distortion. A subwoofer that SOUNDS GOOD, like the w7, for example, is able to travel more than 30mm in either direction linearly.
 
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that sub has 2 voicecoils, and each one is 2 ohms

you wire it like 2 speakers

see how this speaker has 2 sets of connections? That pioneer has the same thing

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