W7 dilemma

[Alex.Kubiak.]

How big of a difference is a 12 inch vs 13 inch w7 and if it is that big of a difference should i go for 2 12 inch w7 or 1 13 inch w7

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[rusty_armadillo 10+ year member]

Yay

 

[jbizzle 5,000+ posts]

1 inch

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

have you not seen a tape measure?

 

[Loud3 5,000+ posts]

The cone area difference is justification enough to go with two 12" drivers over a single 13"

 

[MCarmer 10+ year member]

seriously?

I really hope that you were meaning to ask something else and not that.

Please come back on here and rephrase or retry another question.

 

[Fraze 10+ year member]

13 has 40% more output.

2 12's would be louder in the right box.

 

[PioneerSPL1990 10+ year member]

**** Jl i though it before i owned a 13W7 and after now that im selling the blown peice of crap on E-gay

 

[TMali 10+ year member]

theres 47db in difference

 

[Paaco1981 10+ year member]

While JL does sound very nice. For the money you are gonna spend on a 13w7 or 2 12w7's you could buy something better //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif As far as output and sound between the 2 though, the 13 obviosly has a little more cone than a 12. Also has a little more xmax. Not sure what else is different. 2 12's would be louder though.

Like I said at first, and it's just my opinion. Spending that much on JL W7's would feel like a waste of money to me with so many other companies making better products cheaper. Also if something does happen to your 13w7, JL is gonna charge you like 3-4 times more for the recone than pretty much any other brand would cost.

 

[DerekSmith07 10+ year member]

13.5" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[supermaxx123 10+ year member]

2 12's would be louder but cost a lot more than one 13 from prices I've seen.

 

[Dr. Hertz 10+ year member]

Don't buy a W7. Do some research on the net, get something that isn't crazy overpriced and overhyped. When the W7 came out like 8 years ago, it was a waste then and still is. I've never heard them regularly sound good, but have heard plenty sound bad. Once I heard a single 8 that sounded GREAT, but I did say once! If you like a name you can trust, and want a SQL type woofer go with the IDMAX, and save some cheddar. If you're a JL honk go with the W6V2, other than those suggestions know that it's more install (read: the box) than the woofer. My last setup meant to get loud was 2 Alpine Type R 12's (an average sub, great price) vented, killer box on 1K each, and I was pretty happy, made my boy with 3 W7 10's with a JL 500/1 on each real mad! he moved up to 1000/1 on each, and was only mad after that. His box was a JL spec box. Spec boxes are meant to make the woofer not sound bad. In other words, spec boxes are junk.

 

[lord baccus 10+ year member]

Start looking here http://www.caraudioclassifieds.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=9

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

4 8s imho