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Nevermind. I found a 12" that's 116 db efficiency ported enclosure. Think I'll go with this one. Never knew they could be made that efficient.

I have reasons which I'll list below but Bandpass is typically 6db's louder than sealed and ported is 3db's correct? I also i understand that BP's can be made to be accurate correct? (at least Soundman said so and did a build on his show) I know most pre loaded enclosures are typically lower end or ...

lol, perfect. Hell I was even at RF's website among a few others looking at their diagrams and didn't see that one. duh Just to clarify...the Negative lead connecting to the Positive lead is going from one voice coil to the other right and not the same coil? Just wanted to make certain. Also, the am...

I remember early CarAudio magazine showing ads of mmats ads, going down to like 1/4 ohm stable I think. Don't see much of that anymore. I was impressed with the idea of Class D amps. They finally got it down pat I think. But the RF punch ix amps were pretty small for the output. still got my punch 6...

Remembering the 90's. I was in HS and seemed most everyone had a pounding system you could hear for blocks. Now all I hear is trunk rattles if that. I suppose the problem is that newer cars these days are paper thin alloys and more people seem to be happy enough with factory audio systems. Admittedl...

I have 3 Sundown 8" SD dvc subs. Each coil is 4 ohms and I need a 2 ohm load on my amp. According to an ohm calculator, a mix of parallel and series wiring will give me 2.6 ohm load on the amp...is this correct? The confusing part for me is trying to picture how I'll wire all that. Every time I...