10's vs 12's help

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

Ok so here's my situation. Going to re do my Pre fab truck box to fit 1 ported 12 instead of 2 sealed 10's. I planned on running either 2 fosgate p3 10's sealed or 1 p3 12 with an aero port. Box calculates out to 1.7cft total. Reason for running fosgate is I'm pretty close friends with the owner so he takes care of me on Anything Rockford or I'd be sitting on some SA's or BL's right now looking for input Which Is a better set up 1 ported 12 or the 2 sealed 10's. Thanks

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[Slayerx 10+ year member]

I'd go 12 properly ported over a pair of sealed 10s any day

 

[disturbed471985 5,000+ posts]

^^^ all day.

 

[Ryan shaw 10+ year member]

i ran 2 10's in a sealed 2.2 cu ft box with 1500rms and then switched to a 12 off 1000rms ported in a 1.8 tuned to 32 and it was a world of difference with the 12, sounded better, dug lower and hit harder than the sealed 10's. From my experience a good ported box and sub can sound just as good as a sealed setup with oodles more boom in the sub 50hz range

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

ya guys thanks for the response. that's exactly what i said i've had 6 different sets of 10's in my sealed pre-fab enclosure i'm just unsure on what length and width aero port to run and what 12's do you guys like? the p3 is basically my for now set up because i'm still looking to get a big boy to throw in there a little later. My amp that i'll be running is a JL slash 1000/1v2. suggestions more than welcome //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif been looking at the mmats line of woofers the SA-12 and FI bl's but would like some more choices and opinions on some woofers

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

There are much better subs than the P3, especially for the stoopid retarded price of RF.

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

trust me buck i know. but my buddy always takes care of me and practically gives them to me so i run them and plan to till i pick out a true bad *** sub to throw in there. any opinions?

 

[09civic 5,000+ posts]

Sa 12 would be nice. But it wants more then 1.7^3

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

i'm probably going to have more than 1.7 now that i'm redoing my box and changing the back face to give me more depth and fiberglassing the inside and out so it's solid.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

If you were going to run Fi, I would run the Q over the BL, and I've owned both.

You are really going to need more than 1.7 cubes for any decent 12 to sound good.

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

rough estimate i want to say i'm probably going to top out at 1.9 or a little over 2^ what do you think?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

The larger you can get the enclosure, the better.

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

say i only end up with 2 cubes max what are my options like sub wise? i'm not new new to car audio but i've only recently been getting into it little heavier and not to cultured on the many great options you guys all have and run

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

You'll be able to run quite a few subs in 2 cubes. I personally just like larger enclosures.

 

[tommelleo22 10+ year member]

so do i lol just hard to pull off in a truck! lol