ok, so I set out to look for a pair of these subs and wound up with 3 of them. They arrive next week and I am starting to look for some options. I thought of selling one and running two ported off of 2-SQA-1's that I have, but I am increasingly liking the idea of running all three.

I have looked at the Audiopipe AP30001D which according to JBLCAMRY are good for 2600rmsx1@2ohms, but I have also looked at the new Soundstream Dtower which does 1400rmsx1@2ohms.

Just looking for suggestions and seeing where we go from here. I am looking for a great sounding, loud system, and I typically try to do things right the first time so that I do not have to have any worries for 2+ years. reliability is a huge factor and once I install something I usually do not like to upgrade later down the road. The reason I like the AP30001D is it is a lot of power at a decent price and definitely gives me headroom.

4 ohm SVC? Those amps are a LOT of power for those subs. If they are 4 ohm SVC you will be running them @ 1.33 ohms in parallel. An SAE-1200d would be ideal for them. That will give you more than enough headroom

sorry, they are DVC4's...I figured series/parallel I would be at 2.66ohms final load

sorry, they are DVC4's...I figured series/parallel I would be at 2.66ohms final load

You really don't need more than ~500w per speaker. So somewhere around 1500w (2000w at most) at 2 ohms should be fine.

Someone over here measured the AP30001 (actually the Massive P3000 but it's the same amp) at almost 3500w at 2 ohms actual load.

I would choose one of those if I had 3 RL-i8s for a 2.66 load

http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...;Product_ID=378

http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=6667

http://www.woofersetc.com/index.cfm?fuseac...Product_ID=6990

However if you can up the budget, I would go with a SAZ 3000D which can be found for $600 or so used.

Hope that helps,

Kelvin

i have been looking at the soundstreams pretty hard to be honest with you

any other rec's?

oops...edit

Kicker 1500.1?

Phoenix Gold 1200.1, I know the tantrum series does 1400+ @ 2-4 ohms.

Chad

Picked up the Audiopipe AP30001D and picking up a kinetik