eight 12's or two 18's or four 15's?

[kurtdirt1 10+ year member]

Okay so which way should I go? I only want to run about 3krms so which way should I go? I'd like to do either four 15's or the eight 12's...with the eight 12's I get a lot more cone area but I would have to get a bunch of lower power subs due to my limit of about 3K...I could also go the two 18's route and get two higher power subs...But which one would sound better, move more air, and be louder? also could you guys suggest some subs for each application? thanks

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[kurtdirt1 10+ year member]

come on people...help me out

 

[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

Eight RD Classic 12's yummy

 

[kurtdirt1 10+ year member]

what's the rms on them? and how much are they a pop?

 

[kurtdirt1 10+ year member]

nm, i'm gonna stick with two 18's...

 

[MisterGrubbs 5,000+ posts]

Any which way you look at it, it should be impressive.

Two 18's would work well, what are you thinking about doing in regards to subs? 1500 rms each, correct?

New AudioQue's maybe?

 

[PSturmer 10+ year member]

your gonna need more power unless you get some pos subs. the aq's would work if they each had 3k.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

2 18s ~2400^2

4 15s ~3200^2

8 12s ~3800^2

6 12s is a little more comparable than 8

any of them you go with will be pretty loud, i have 2 18s... works for me

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

The RMS rating of the sub does not tell you how much power it needs. It's a max figure NOT a min.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

your gonna need more power unless you get some pos subs. the aq's would work if they each had 3k.

Not every sub out there requires 3000+ watts to operate to its potential.
People are going abit power crazy these days. if you dont have thousands of watts, you dont have enough. people were running multyiple drivers like the OP is asking about, long before they were coming out with all these multi-thousand watt amplifiers. And you know, we were doing just fine anyway. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

There was a 4 time IASCA champ with only about 600 total on 8 subs.

 

[Junior22 10+ year member]

def dont need a ton of woofer bro ...

go with one good subwoofer and throw that power on it ...

dd 9500

rd heavyweight v2

apx ...

something along those lines