BL 10"

[UNIT 6639 0]

Well to begin, I will report on my expierence with FI customer service!

I ordered through the site and paid with my paypal account, the site was very easy to understand and use! Once I ordered, I began harrassing Scott with all kinds of annoying questions. Scott answered everything I asked as best as he could, without complaint!

I even sweated Ndmstang a few times, he too was helpfull and understanding. So all in all customer service was top notch.

Tracking was so so, UPS sucks in my honest opinion, that has nothing to do with FI at all though! They rarely updated the info for tracking, it always looked as if my sub was just sitting around.

I am biased though because I love DHL, UPS also delivered my sub to the wrong house! A neighbor actually dropped it off.

So, once I get the sub in the house, I open it up, it was packaged VERY securely! Sub was in great shape even though the box had a big boot print on it :| . UPS?????

So, I begin to drool over the sub, I closely inspect it for imperfections for about 30 min, there were none! Build quality was 100%, I am amazed at the stiffness of the spider, never felt one that stiff, cone barely moves when touched.

I even remove the rubber gasket, everything looks fine underneath, I am feeling very impressed at this point.

So I move on to installing it in my car, powered from my 9.1 at 1 ohm 1200 watts rms, 1.2 cuft tuned at 35hz. I encounter a problem dropping the sub in my box, the basket is to big for the cutout, so I invert it, its still a very tite fit but it works out. My box has a recessed baffel and the BL is a little to big to fit into the recession.

But I get it in, encounter another problem screwing it down, not the subs fault, I work around it and get the sub mounted.

I power it up, encounter another problem, air is leaking through the screw holes due to me not using proper screws to invert mount a sub. I ghetto rig it by taping over all the screw holes, sub begins to play low notes as it should.

NOW, I am afraid to really let the sub "Wang" so I am being gentle (break in??), I turn the volume up only to 15 out of 60,(I never take it past 35), this sub sounds like a 12! in fact, I had my e12K in there just before I put the BL in, this thing sounds 10 times better/lower than the 12.

So, I get brave, and decide to turn it up to 20, I begin to hear a difference from all the other subs I have ever had, this is no ordinary 10" sub, at least to me. It is sounds almost as low as my 15" Ava did, but its a 10" sub??? thats not even broke in yet???

I can already tell I am going to love this sub, I have not had it a full day yet, AND, my new box is supposed to be here in a few days, it was built specifically for 2 10" FI BL's so I have no doubt it will drop right in.

I cannot wait to get another BL and a bigger amp, to say I am happy with this sub is an understatement, and I can only assume I will be even happier once its broken in. This review is far from over, I will update once I get my new box and the sub is fully broke in.

My new box has seperate chambers so I will just run the one BL in it until I can send off money for a second! I am really glad a picked FI over the other big name companies I was contemplating buying my next set of subs from.

To be continued.........

Edited March 8, 2007 by UNIT 6639

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Nice job on the reivew. Can you post a copy in the product review section also please?

[NDMstang65 403]

Awesome, post install pics whenever you get the chance!

[filtor1 13]

Thanks for the review. I am definitely in for pics.