RL-P 15 Review and Pics!!

[Troy1x 0]

Ok this might be a little long but here goes. I finally put in my RL-P 15. The enclosure it went into was a 2.0 cubes sealed afer displacement..

This sub is also being powered by a crossfire vr1000d at 2 ohms putting out about 500-600 watts. I set my gains with a MM and then proceded to go ahead with testing. I went on a 1.5 hour drive, and basicly went crazy with the MP3s. I am going to start off by saying this driver is completely amazing, everything I threw at it was down right accurate and loud. I started off with some rap, tracks like Trick Daddy - Let's Go, Trick Daddy - Sugar, Lil' Jon - various tracks, and Busta Rymes - Put Your Hands, St. Lunatics - Midwest Swing, Snoop Dogg - Whats My Name. This is just some that I remember listening to. Every one of these tracks were down right amazing. The bass was accurate and also very loud. Sugar was one of my favorites for this sub along with Let's Go and Put your hands which all have some amazing bass. Then after I arrived at my destination and left I put in my rock MP3 disc, lets just start out by saying for rock its down right hard to please me, the brahma 12 and atlas 12 couldn't do it. But once I started playing some rock tracks my face lit up with a smile. Tracks that I remeber testing Mudvayne - F*cking Determined, Happy? both tracks produced the bass I was looking for in rock hard hitting and very accurate with little overhang. Some other tracks were Marylin Manson - Dope Show, I love the bass on this track its by far my most favorite song for bass in rock. Just hearing this song off this sub increased my smile 10 fold. Korn - Got the Life, incrediable bass and very very loud, Our Lady Peace - All for You once again very accurate and amazing. At the very end of my trip I decided to play one last song that I knew would make this sub shine, Perfect Circle - Passive, my mouth was wide open, first of all I love the song and second this songs bass is just beautiful period. I couldn't believe how hard this was hitting, after this song I knew it was worth every penny and more this sub is down right nasty, accurate and just plain good.

As for a comparison between my other subs, Atlas 12 was about half as loud as this but very close if not the same in SQ. The Atlas was getting 250 watts in a 1.25 cube sealed enclosure. Brahma 12 here is the interesting thing, to my ears the brahma was just as loud with 1,000 watts in a 1.25 cube enclosure, but the SQ of my RL-P beat it. Now my brahma is over 2 years old and well broken in. My RL-P has only 1.5 hours of play time, and half the power, but does have the cone advantage. For 500 watts and the price and the option of later down the road to add another and put 1,000 watts to both togather. This is one great subwoofer and very happy so far. Thanks to Mike of SoundSplinter for the great sub, and very fast customer service. Oh and here are some pics!!!

Excuse spelling mistakes and Grammer

-Troy

Go here if you have trouble with pics

http://www.sounddomain.com/ride/617464/6

[Supa_c 1]

Beefy.

[SoundSplinter 1]

Glad to hear you're diggin' the driver, and thanks for the positive review!

But I have to ask.. what's all that smudgin' in the center of the cone on the 4th pic? I hope the sig didn't smear!

[carguy83 0]

man, after reading this...i'm even more anxious to get my 15 RL-p in. thanks for the review! after finished reading it...found myself smiling like an idiot

[Troy1x 0]

Basicly what happen to the cone is, I was sweating so bad considering it was 99 degress. Some of my sweeat hit the cone and I tried rubbing it off with a towel but it just smudged and then I used armor all starting from the outside and going in, I brushed over the logo lighty so I didn't take the paint away... which I don't think i did. Basicly that light area in the middle was from the very very light coat of armor all and the rest was a heavier coat. Hard to explain.

-Troy

[60ndown 0]

turn that sub around so it fires towards the back of the truck n let me know what u trhink

[Troy1x 0]

My box isn't made to do that... My old box for my brahma I had it facing the back, but there is a problem with that. It creates the windows up and down syndrome. My brahma is not near as loud unless I have the windows down, but with the RL-P is the same at least to my ears windows up or down and I think its because of the direction of the sub.

-Troy

[mrray13 30]

nice review Troy and glad to know ur liking the sub!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[SoundSplinter 1]

Basicly that light area in the middle was from the very very light coat of armor all and the rest was a heavier coat. Hard to explain.

Ah, I'm readin' ya loud 'n clear

Most of the cone has the wet & polished look from the fresh armorall, while the center is dry from the intentionally lighter coat!

Keep on wangin'!

[iLLlegal 0]

love the review. ill buy one, one of these days

[Slumpin 0]

grrr... i really dont want to go through all this trans am box building headache crap again, now trying to get 4 cubic feet for 2 15s....

[Troy1x 0]

Its getting louder 3 hours playing time and this thing is wanging like no tomarrow, its offically louder to my ears then the brahma 12!!!

Man I want a suv so bad now... cause I want to add another!!!

-Troy

[carguy83 0]

any issues with the surround hitting the grill during large excursions?

[Troy1x 0]

So Far I haven't checked but this weekend I am going to make sure.

-Troy

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

nice review

[ImReady77 0]

good review.