JL no longer underrating subs, some info...

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

how much was the the 12" JL W3v1 underrated?

hmmmmm

 

[USCFAN 10+ year member]

Strange they didn't change the rating chart. I was planning on putting 600rms into my 13w6v2 but now I might try 750rms if that is what the site is saying.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I doubt you'll notice the difference, at all.

 

[BringDaBoom 10+ year member]

Strange they didn't change the rating chart. I was planning on putting 600rms into my 13w6v2 but now I might try 750rms if that is what the site is saying.

May not have gotten to that just yet. And I agree with Jim J the difference will be minimal if at all.

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

12w7 was rated as 750w rms and still is.

 

[amedeuce 10+ year member]

Off subject....

The new 2008 model amps look and seem a lot like the alpine pdx series.

 

[amedeuce 10+ year member]

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

^^^^agreed

 

[wvufootball 10+ year member]

That is a nice lookin amp, too bad its going to be more expensive then the slash series.

 

[USCFAN 10+ year member]

May not have gotten to that just yet. And I agree with Jim J the difference will be minimal if at all.

Yeah maybe.

Also know there won't be much of a difference but if I got might as well use it....

 

[nauc 10+ year member]

12w7 was rated as 750w rms and still is.

their site says 1000

http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_subs.php?series_id=9

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

their site says 1000
http://mobile.jlaudio.com/products_subs.php?series_id=9

That's in "the danger zone". That picture hasn't changed a lick since I bought mine over 2 years ago. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[_JaY_ 10+ year member]

wow sweet there new amps look like there going to follow RF(amp deisgn) and Alpine (double stack

 

[Immacomputer 10+ year member]

This is sort of sad because for the people who are concerned about power ratings, when almost solely judging the capabilities of a sub, most of the time don't run amplifiers that produce rated power or just don't run them correctly.

Pretty ironic!

I feel bad that JL took this route. I think it's more sad that they changed their power ratings before their prices. I wonder if the same thing will happen to their amps later down the road. But, I really doubt that because everybody knows that 1 JL watt is equal to 1.5 watts from any other amp.. hahha.b

 

[vehementSPL 10+ year member]

unfortunately even myself when I was new to car audio. Wow what does that sub handle.. WOW 1200 watts that must be an amazing sub. blah blah. Kinda like when the audiobahn titanium came out. i believe it was rated 4000rms on the 18. Even if it took that power. It was POWER eating sub. You could have went with a good 1000 watt rms sub and got the same output