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Heh....it was like that when you were posting there. Only a handful of members with any decent worthwhile knowledge to share. Everyone else posting misinformation or uniformed opinions.

I thought those were creatures only of lore. Riding around on their unicorns, skipping through the forest of Never Never Land. But oh my.....they do exist !!

You disappearing for a month or two is not atypical. Kent, on the other hand, lives and breaths for SSA.

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With a good power supply, a single Memphis 16-MCD4kw would be good. Or, if you really wanted some power on tap, strap a pair of them to the subwoofer. Rockford Fosgate T30001 should give in the 1600-1800w range @ 4ohm. Or strap a pair of the older 1500bd's or 1501bd's for close to 3000w @ 4ohm. Strapped Orion 1200D's should be ~1600w @ 4ohm.. If you could find a Tru Tech Sledgehammer SH1 around, that would give you ~2000w @ 4ohm. If the Kicker 2500.1 is underrated, it could be capable of atleast 1500w @ 4ohm. Autotek MM4000.1D should give 2000w @ 4ohm Massive Audio D400X should do ~2400w @ 4ohm I believe. Older US Amps had a 2000 (or 2000X, whatever) that would do ~2000w @ 4ohm. Don't know about the new lineup. Hifonics XX Goliath should do ~1500w @ 4ohm.

Did you snatch up those Coustic DR's?? All but three of the 306Es. Eight drivers for $180 shipped is a great deal if you ask me. Especially for these. You'll be very pleased with them. I absolutely love my Coustic 306P's. They sound fantastic and can really hammer out the midbass (hell, they can hammer out bass pretty damn well). So, if you find you don't want or need them at a future point in time....toss them my way

Well, given that the cone will flex during high excursion; wouldn't that deform the cone aswell?

I think Kyle hit the answer to the question right on the head. The subwoofer itself will perform the same in both enviornments (assuming same enclosure, same actual power, etc). However, what you actually hear will change due to the different enviornments. The home setup will have far less "cabin gain", etc etc.

That's good stuff right there.

I have no idea who that is.

Did you snatch up those Coustic DR's??

How long ago did they lay you off? If it was within a reasonably recent time frame; I'd tell them you'll go back but they have to start your benefits package at the same point it was at when you got laid off, and increasing from there as it typically would for someone with that seniority. They laid you off for budgetary reasons. You didn't quit, and you didn't get fired. If they didn't do that, I'd say screw 'em.

Well, the local powerball lottery drawing is up to $380,000,000 Bought $20 worth myself, and pitched in $5 at work with my department to pool together some money and buy tickets. So, I've increased my chances of winning from .00000000684% to .00000041% YAY!!

I have carpet in my car for the first time in over a year. And as I hadn't even seen my car's carpet for over a year, I had forgotten how damn dirty it is

Don't get me wrong....it sounds great with 800w. If someone were buying this sub for a pure SQ install, 800w would do it. Blends well with the frontstage. Not overpowering, not overbearing. But, there are definitely subs that get louder off of the same power (atleast with this sub in this box). The Rl-p in 1.25cuft sealed off of the same amp (with a little lower gain setting, hence less power) has more overall output than the Rl-s in 3.5cuft sealed. I might try tossing a few blocks of wood in the box today, drop the box size down some and see what happens. Should have a decent boost in output, but efficiency will probably go down some along with low end extension....so I don't know how it'll sound off of this power in a smaller box.

My g/f called me at work to tell me that there was a big, heavy package delivered to our doorstep today. Wonder what it could be.......

Yeah....that's a hell of an amp for the money. But not quite as powerful as I'm looking for. I want a good ~200w per side if possible for the fronts, then bridge the rears to a sub (if I did switch to a 4-channel)

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Dave make you do that? LOL....No. He was the one that mentioned them to me when I was debating on what frontstage to go with. And he helped me find a good deal on them. But I absolutely loved the sound of his. And the 8's are supposed to have fantabulous low end output and extension....which is what I wanted. So I thought what the hell, I'll give them a shot. For the price I paid, even if I don't like them I could turn around and sell them without losing any money. Although now I'm debating on picking up a PG Xenon 200.4. 200w x 4 @ 1-4ohm for $339+shipping is a tempting deal on SD.

You running those Crossfire horns? What do you think of those? I haven't heard much about them.

HU: Eclipse 8053 Fronts: Memphis Sync8's (not in yet) Front Amps: (2) Coustic Amp-505DR (unless I go active, then it'll be (2) Coustic Amp-510DR) Sub: Undecided Sub Amp: Soundstream Rubicon 702 And these will be included if I don't run the internal eq/xovers on the deck and decide to use external units: EQ: PG EQ230 Xover: Coustic DR DX28 Or I may switch those out, use the deck's internal xover and use something like the Audiocontrol DQS for equalization. I dunno yet.... Pretty simple, yet should sound superb when finished (if ever finished.......)

Life sucks. Nothing ever goes my way. The kid didn't have it setup to where we could demo the sub on those amps :crying: :crying: We might be able to try later on....but it's an 1.5hr drive over there, and I don't know if I'll be able to make the trip again in the near future. However, Adam (the guy in ohio) and Dave (audiolife) both like the sound of the sub, even off of this little power. Very clean, smooth, natural sounding. I think, overall, I like the sound of the Rl-s over the Rl-p. The Rl-s seems to have a little more "full" sound in the lower frequencies (~25-45hz), is a little more natural sounding and a little more clean in it's bass reproduction. But below ~25hz the Rl-p takes over in output in my setup....probably due to the low power levels. I'm sure with ~2000w the Rl-s would fill out the low low end much better. And as Kent said; the Rl-s has no top end extension. It's a true subwoofer, and only really for someone with strong midbass (which, if you're spending this much on a subwoofer, I'd presume you had an overall decent setup). But man I'd like to see what this thing can really do!!! I'm half tempted to pick up a Behringer EP2500 from PE and just return it after I send the sub off.

Well, I have the afternoon off, and have okay'd it with the ole lady to be gone for a while. So if I can get ahold of Dave, we're going to head over to Ohio for a while. Should have a good 4kw on tap to give 'er over there If that's not power, I don't know what is..........

Well, finally got my box jerry-rigged to accept the Rl-s From my calculations....should be ~3.8cuft less sub displacement and a small brace. So, we'll just call it 3.5cuft. Only had about 10 minutes listening time so far hooked up to my Soundstream Rubicon 702. Man this sub is power hungry. The 702 is throwing everything it has at the Rl-s (~800w), and it's just tickling it. I can hear the Rl-s in the trunk just laughing. Seriously, I think it's laughing at me. Has decent output despite the low power levels. For a "pure" sound quality install, this power level wouldn't be bad.....not overbearing and overpowering the front stage, but enough to let you know it's there. Definitely not getting it anywhere near it's output potential though.....not even close. Sound wise; clean. Little to no noticeable distortion thus far. Though, given that I'm barely even moving the damned thing, this would be expected Not much I can really say other than that right now given the limited ear time I've had with it. I'll get some more listening time on it tommorrow, and hopefully be able to hook up with Dave (audiolife) and toss some real power at this thing We'll see.

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