400 watts to use on ssa goodness

[Tosh Henderson 0]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

[shakes 2]

No need to run an icon with that little power, one dcon will still be barely stretching it's legs on 400 watts.

[TRP 42]

Do you ever plan on upgrading to more power later? If so i would say go with the ICON, but if not stay DCON it will be good on 400. I run a 10" ICON on a 125.2 Sundown (roughly) 3-400 watts and it still hits really well. Would like to get about 1KW on her though!!

[Mark LaFountain 1,054]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

[Tosh Henderson 0]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

Ok thanks. Going to do 2 12" dcons ported at around 33hz. Will do a build post when I get it started.

[emh9009 199]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

i've never heard a comparison of, for example, 1 12" on 500 watts compared to 2 of the same 12" on the same 500 watts. does it really make that big of a difference? i thought it wasn't much

[Mac N Cheese 90]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

i've never heard a comparison of, for example, 1 12" on 500 watts compared to 2 of the same 12" on the same 500 watts. does it really make that big of a difference? i thought it wasn't much

x2 on cone advantage

[Viperoni 0]

Doing a install and have 400 watts to give substage and want to use one of the ssa woofers. Going to be in back of suv,ported box,listento mostly rap . What would be a good match? 1 dcon or 2dcons. Or a single icon

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

i've never heard a comparison of, for example, 1 12" on 500 watts compared to 2 of the same 12" on the same 500 watts. does it really make that big of a difference? i thought it wasn't much

Close to 3db more, with better SQ to boot.

[Notorious97200 339]

any of the above will work great. I would go with 2 DCONs if you can afford it. Cone advantage is priceless

i've never heard a comparison of, for example, 1 12" on 500 watts compared to 2 of the same 12" on the same 500 watts. does it really make that big of a difference? i thought it wasn't much

Close to 3db more, with better SQ to boot.

So much difference ?!! Wow

[shakes 2]

Well you'd have to expect something to happen when you double the cone area.

[emh9009 199]

i knew it would be SOMETHING just not that big of a something

[jcarter1885 995]

i knew it would be SOMETHING just not that big of a something

It also depends on the subs being used and setups because not always will 2-12"s be louder than 1-15" but most of the time yeah it should with the same amount of power being used in both setups.

[emh9009 199]

thats pretty sweet. ive heard the same about doubling the power, does that have about the same rule?

OP sorry to thread jack, ill leave it alone here and figure it out somewhere else

Edited February 8, 2010 by watts09

[ryan s 12]

More cone area = more air moved

Excursion goes down + efficiency goes up = SPL goes up

If you have the money for 2 drivers and want to use the space for 2, the answer is clear

[ABXX49 20]

No need to run an icon with that little power, one dcon will still be barely stretching it's legs on 400 watts.

Actually, I couldn't have been happier with my Icon on 300.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

No need to run an icon with that little power, one dcon will still be barely stretching it's legs on 400 watts.

Actually, I couldn't have been happier with my Icon on 300.

[Kanaworm$ 292]

2 DCONS would be very impressive. I have a DCON D4 10" in my wifes car and it is more than enough for her and very impressive on the SAZ-1000D wired at 2 ohms.

Either choice is going to be great! SSA FTW!

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

2 DCONS would be very impressive. I have a DCON D4 10" in my wifes car and it is more than enough for her and very impressive on the SAZ-1000D wired at 2 ohms.

Either choice is going to be great! SSA FTW!

[acex3a 5]

DCONs are a nice set of subs. remember when they where in marks truck sounds awesome.