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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8832859" data-attributes="member: 614752">JL has done some odd coil impedance in the past and I think still do 3 ohm coils on their W7.   Their slash series amps are rated to drive 1.5 ohm and really if you hooked the pair of those up in parallel to a "4 ohm stable" amp you'd almost definitely be just fine.   They may have been marketed as 6 or 8 ohm when new and as someone else mentioned I too remember people using 3 subs a lot with the JL so may well have been pitched as 6 ohm for that purpose.Those are definitely antique and while they probably function fine they're coming down the home stretch of their life before moving parts start to fail from age.   I understand that those on a couple hundred watts is likely adequate for your needs, the bigger issue I see going forward is that if that much bass is adequate for you you could do it in much less space with modern equipment.   A single modern 8 or 10" woofer on 500W of power would outperform those in about 1 cubic foot gross space... and 500W is crazy cheap these days.</blockquote>