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The roof makes a horrible sound, he's ordered some sound deadener, just waiting on it to get here.

this is not my vehicle, it's a customers.

Last one for today:

Video #2 for the day:

Just took a few videos, will post them as the finish uploading: Here's the first one:

And I know it sounds like a woofer's blown at the end, but it's just the rear panel in the car vibrating. I kind of freaked out when I opened the trunk also, until I figured out what it was.

yes, the 146 was in my friend's truck, tuned for daily, this wasn't a burp box. On music, there's only one word to describe it: violent!!!!!!! It doesn't sound bad at all, being an SPL woofer, but it's definately not an SQ sub, you can tell that as soon as you look at it. I would run it daily on 3k, but would be nice to it on that power daily. So far, it seems to like larger boxes than most SPL subs also. So far, we've put the 12 in 2.5 and 3.4 cubic ft boxes, and it was louder in the 3.4 cubic ft box. We'll see if that changes when we get about double rms power on it though, it may need the smaller box then.

building a couple boxes today to try to squeeze everything I can out of it, but so far, I'm super impressed, especially given the price of this subwoofer. We've thrown 3400 clamped watts at it daily for over a week, and we can get it hot, but so far no smells or problems. We've absolutely beat the snot out of this woofer and it takes it like a champ. Best score so far on 3400 clamped watts in my truck: 148.7..... So far, I can't find anything I don't like about the performance of the woofer, being SPL based. It has outclassed the DD 9512 in every aspect so far. We're going to put more power to it tomorrow, and see how it does in a pure, high power burp situation. After testing is complete, this is a woofer that I would like to hang on to, and sell the Digital Designs woofer. I have found a home for this one, and I will probably order a 15 in the near future for another project.

nvm

Same box, 6th order bandpass, upped the power to a SAZ-3000d, and pulled a 146.2 Pretty impressed with this woofer, I'd put it against any other SPL woofer and it's very close to any of them. Add in the low price, and you've got a winner.

noticed the LFB2K is available in 16V, and I need a couple 16V batts for an upcoming show. Just wondering what the lead time is on them, I'm kind of in a time crunch.

we will test it on music and tones this weekend

As the sub is breaking in, of course it's getting louder. Later this week we'll do the full on SPL testing, pushing it to it's limits. I'm impressed so far, 142's on a single 12 on a 1500 watt amp that's tuned in the low low 30hz range is pretty impressive. Maybe I'll get to take a few videos today of it on music.

Good job Jake........ Can't wait to see what you have in store for the truck.

I have 2 of those, and getting 2 more hopefully this week, unfortunately, I don't want to kill the poor little woofers, so I'll stick with the 100.4 on them......lol

I'll be doing some more testing later in the week on high power on the SPL12, but as of right now, I'd say that you don't need to run 10k or even 4k to get the sub loud, we've been using it daily on 1500 watts, and it's most impressive.

Is that an LSC? Looks like LSC wheels on it. I've always loved the Mark VII's. Easy car to make a sleeper, because most of the Mustang 5.0 parts fit on it.

we had a local guy running one at .5 for a long time, but I wouldn't suggest it. Just because he got away with it, doesn't mean you'll have the same luck.

Did a little more testing tonight. Threw the SPL 12 and the 6th order bandpass tuned looooooooow into a friend's truck on a SAZ-1500d. Everyone who was in the shop was amazed by the output. Had around the same output on music as his DD 3518 on the same amp. Did a 142.3 on the Termlab sealed and legal at 38hz. Told you the bandpass was tuned low in the beginning. Not too bad for a single 12" woofer on 1500 watts, when it's rated at 2500. In comparison, the DD 9512 did a 142.0 in the same setup. On Monday the fun begins, I'm going to build the SPL boxes for it tomorrow, and we'll give it a good run and see what it will do in the environment it was designed to perform in. What amazed me was the low end output, for it being an SPL sub. Definately has more low end than the DD 9512, and sounds very smooth, where the DD is very mechanical sounding. So far I'm impressed with it, can't wait to see what it will do given RMS power and then some. I let my friend wire up the sub tonight, and he had the same comment about the terminals though. They really are hard to get tight because the space is so small.

Damn nice considering the low wattage and they are 200wrms subs! Pretty impressive if you ask me! What do you think of them in the SQ department? They sound great!!!!!!!! What I really like is that it's been a long time since I had a sub in my car that would play anything and sound good. It has a perfect blend at any volume, I'm used to overpowering bass at low volumes, so I'm loving it right now.

for great low end, fire the port and sub back

tried my damnest to get a 140 out of it, just so I could talk smack, but I'm impressed with the number, since the box is tuned to 34hz and the subs are seeing around 350 watts or so. Forgot to mention, these are the 10's also.

If you know when enough is enough, I don't see a problem with it. Just be smart about it.

I got to do some initial lower power listening tests this week, just trying to get a feel for what this sub likes. Put it in my 6th order bandpass for the IA DP, and it had some pretty tremendous output on the test bench, on not quite 1/2 it's RMS. Broke it in a bit, and I'm going to put it in 2 different enclosures this weekend, for a couple days each. One will be 2.5 cubic ft, tuned to 35hz, the other is a pseudo-transmission line I've used with other SPL oriented subs that tends to get rather loud, even on music.

Yes, all of that was in the box, and it was packed appropriately just like you mentioned, sorry, I should have been more clear on that. Like I said, it did it's job well, but the crate itself just didn't come out looking that great. But the subwoofer arrived unhurt, which is the important thing. It took a little abuse along the way, as you can tell. And here's a pic of the aluminum trim ring in place of the gasket: