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<blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 2699750" data-attributes="member: 573988">aight this is it i&#039;m gunna try to explain this to you one more time then you can figure it out yourself.... i&#039;m not saying that you don&#039;t know what sound quality is because you like your music too quiet... i&#039;m saying that there is a threshold for when decreasing the power compromises sound quality... you can&#039;t agrue with physics in that a voice coil becomes less accurate at lower power levels becuse the speaker has resistance to the current in it changeing that must be overcome as much as possible in order to get accurate reproductions of the waveform input.as frequency responce decreases there are less sharp responces and the waveform looks curvier... this will actually &quot;sound&quot; better to you to a certain extent... the reason for this is because the sound you hear is your ear drum vibrating at the same frequncies as the sound wave hitting it... the quicker this wave the quicker your eardrum vibrates and it gets to a point where the stress on the eardrum causes physical pain and eventually tearing of the eardrrum... this account for the reason 120 decibles is excruciateing at 20khz but desireable at 20hz.... but that is beside the point... a jl 13w7 is not purly an SQ speaker, it is commonly described as an SQL speaker because to reach the SQ it was designed for requires alot of power resulting in a VERY loud but acurate output there is a fine line to where less power means less quality and more power means less length of speaker life... this &quot;magic number&quot; for the 13 is 1000 watts, allthough most preffer to give it more than this... don&#039;t fool yourself into thinking Jl doesn&#039;t test their own products before slapping those specifications on them... my suggestion is if 500 watts on a 13 or a 12 is more than loud enough for you...don&#039;t be stupid you&#039;re not getting better quality with the bigger sub by underpowering it, get the 10 or 8 or a lesser series. fact is that the w7&#039;s are not ment to only be an SQ speaker, infact they require alot of output for them to reach their peak frequency responce if you don&#039;t believe me take a look at the W7&#039;s technowledgies on the website... you&#039;ll never find anything that mentions SQ being the focus of the design in a w7... what you WILL find alot is that they were designed to have extremely high SQ at extremely high SPLEDIT: 500/1 on a 10w6 IS A-OK but this forum was the difference between the 12 and 13 so he&#039;s not lookin for only sq</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cotjones, post: 2699750, member: 573988"] aight this is it i'm gunna try to explain this to you one more time then you can figure it out yourself.... i'm not saying that you don't know what sound quality is because you like your music too quiet... i'm saying that there is a threshold for when decreasing the power compromises sound quality... you can't agrue with physics in that a voice coil becomes less accurate at lower power levels becuse the speaker has resistance to the current in it changeing that must be overcome as much as possible in order to get accurate reproductions of the waveform input. as frequency responce decreases there are less sharp responces and the waveform looks curvier... this will actually "sound" better to you to a certain extent... the reason for this is because the sound you hear is your ear drum vibrating at the same frequncies as the sound wave hitting it... the quicker this wave the quicker your eardrum vibrates and it gets to a point where the stress on the eardrum causes physical pain and eventually tearing of the eardrrum... this account for the reason 120 decibles is excruciateing at 20khz but desireable at 20hz.... but that is beside the point... a jl 13w7 is not purly an SQ speaker, it is commonly described as an SQL speaker because to reach the SQ it was designed for requires alot of power resulting in a VERY loud but acurate output there is a fine line to where less power means less quality and more power means less length of speaker life... this "magic number" for the 13 is 1000 watts, allthough most preffer to give it more than this... don't fool yourself into thinking Jl doesn't test their own products before slapping those specifications on them... my suggestion is if 500 watts on a 13 or a 12 is more than loud enough for you...don't be stupid you're not getting better quality with the bigger sub by underpowering it, get the 10 or 8 or a lesser series. fact is that the w7's are not ment to only be an SQ speaker, infact they require alot of output for them to reach their peak frequency responce if you don't believe me take a look at the W7's technowledgies on the website... you'll never find anything that mentions SQ being the focus of the design in a w7... what you WILL find alot is that they were designed to have extremely high SQ at extremely high SPL EDIT: 500/1 on a 10w6 IS A-OK but this forum was the difference between the 12 and 13 so he's not lookin for only sq [/QUOTE]

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