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I think this has been covered on this board before. Try searching to see if you find anything!

The question is what is your budget, what electrical upgrades have you made and how much do you have budgeted to do some upgrades?

I tried using the SSA gallery, but had a few issues, so photobucket links. I'll be building a few boxes soon, at least one sealed and a couple test ported boxes for my 96 Volvo 850 GLT (trunk). This 12" xcon d2 will be replacing my current Infinity Kappa Perfect 12vq's, and powered off a Sundown SAZ-1500d. I have a 50ft spool of 1/0 welding wire in my room, a sax100.4 on the way from db-r, and will be ordering the mli65's from the ssa store along with a battery or two. Now I just need to find some decent tweeters, and get to the box building. Found this on my porch the other day: Awesome packing, very secure: Money shots: Various xcon pics on photobucket

Man that subwoofer looks great. I can tell u this the pictures don't do justice seeing the sub in person. I know when I saw my icon in person I was like OMGGGG this thing is huge! and heavy! I couldint imagine what that xcon looks like or even feels like!

There could be many factors at play here, none of which are related to the headunit's output voltage. For starters, as was mentioned, the gain control is included on amplifiers for the express purpose of allowing the amplifier to reach full power output with a wide range of input voltages. You first need to properly set the gain control. With a properly set gain control, there will be no difference in output from the amplifier between your uncle's headunit and your headunit. This is exactly what the gain control is there for. You do not need a line driver. Second, you could be experiencing a difference in vehicle acoustics. The exact same system in two different vehicles will sound and behave completely differently. While I don't know the details of the entire system (i.e. this would have been helpful information to have included in your original post) or what the two vehicles are a discussing here, trying something such as different placement and/or positioning of the subwoofer in your vehicle may change the sound of the system for better or worse. But without fairly advanced attempts at creating "equal" results, there will be some unavoidable differences in sound simply due to the two different vehicles. A third issue could be due to the strength of the respective electrical systems of the two vehicles and the amplifier. If the amplifier is not tightly regulated, and your electrical system is much weaker than the electrical system in your uncle's vehicle, then the amplifier will not be performing as strongly. A fourth issue could also be due to difference in various system settings between the two installations (EQ, crossover settings, "loudness" settings, etc) as well as differences of the other speakers and their respective performance involved in the two systems, integration of the speakers and subwoofers in the system, etc. And that's the short list based on limited information. Long story short; Hard to blame a single factor when there is a multitude at play that need to be fully considered. And to eliminate it from your list, the headunit's preout voltage is not one of the factors with a properly set gain.

I think the RL-P18 is a sound quality woofer. Where are you located?