I know the title would sounds like an oxymoron to the untrained eye but I need a little backing up on this. I have two kenwood tornado woofers getting aprox. 65 watts rms per sub. They're getting kinda old and my sister, and friend can have em. Anyways, a friend of mine works at tweeter and is picking me up a 10" JL audio W3 V2. I'm going to bridge my amp giving me 300 watts. In thought if you have less power with less quality subs you should get more sastifaction out of more power and a much better sub right?

 

well your last question is a little.. hard to read.. but if you are asking, if you have less power, maybe too little for full powering a sub/s... on 2 subs.. of low quality... and then switch to one much "better" sub with much more RMS power to make it work its fullest... Will you be more satisfied?

Answer... Probably, yeah (its my theory as well, power what you have to the fullest before getting more drivers...)... depending on if you want quality or SPL, however, looking at the difference in power, You may actually have more SPL with the single... as long as it is in a Good box.. maybe more important than the sub itself.. is having a box that properly fits the sub...

I love Kenwood Excelon line.. i had a sub in a 1.25cf box... yeah it was boomy and sounded good, but it would max early... turns out I had too soft of a air suspension, so the cone would max its excursion at one more volume notch above where it was currently going only half of its excursion... Long story short, went to a .75cf box, and I can now tell the difference in bass center frequencies, and the sub is able to become much louder at all levels. It is even cleaner sounding.

 

That's exactly what I was asking and that was exactly what I thought but I figured I should get a better opinion before I gave away my two subs and spent $160 on the new one and its box. Thanks.

 

well wait for another answer, like one from FCM, if he agrees with me, which I think he will, especially about the box matching the sub... then go for it, if you want to.

 

I'm not to worried about the box cuz the kids gonna make me one and he went to Ritop to learn all that ****. But the more that agree that merrier.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by importdreamer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I know the title would sounds like an oxymoron to the untrained eye but I need a little backing up on this. I have two kenwood tornado woofers getting aprox. 65 watts rms per sub. They're getting kinda old and my sister, and friend can have em. Anyways, a friend of mine works at tweeter and is picking me up a 10" JL audio W3 V2. I'm going to bridge my amp giving me 300 watts. In thought if you have less power with less quality subs you should get more sastifaction out of more power and a much better sub right?</TD></TR></TABLE> CooBlueDAB is right, its mostly in the box, no matter what kind or how many, or what size, [subs] if not installed in a proper box, you can walk all over it/them with one sub installed properly in the right sized box, that said, your amp is not stable at 2OHM when it is bridged, so........ when you get the sub, get the dual 2OHM VCs, that way you can wire them in series for a 4OHM load.

Make sure the box has the right air volume, make sure its braced, and make very sure its airtight 94

 

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Make sure the box has the right air volume, make sure its braced, and make very sure its airtight 94</TD></TR></TABLE>

hrm, is the plastic wire cuplink thing... that you solder the sub wire leads to, and then just attach the amp to sub box wire things to... considered air tight if it is held in as tight as possible with 4 screws with the box carpet as a gasget between the box, and the ridge of that cuplink thing? Or should I add hot glue or something inbetween there as well...

 

carpet should suffice for a gasket for it, you can always silicone it in from the back if you want some extra help in that area