L7's go louder

[slideking 10+ year member]

I have 2 12" L7's with a orion 2500D going to the wired at 2ohm 1700 watts. For some reason they arent as loud as I expected. How do I get them louder? Wire the amp at .5ohm?

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[Termlab 10+ year member]

what kind of box, and car?

hard to tell with just your information. maybe you have something wired out-of-phase, or a half way blown subwoofer?? hard to tell...

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

Box is ported 2.73cubes each sub. Truck is 4door ford explorer. Have big 3 doen and new 200 amp alt, getting 14 volts when I test the batt.

 

[Termlab 10+ year member]

hows it tuned??? maybe you just set a high standard??? i believe there is a saying that goes along with this, set low standards, and you will never be dissappointed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

j/k, but anyway, have you ran previous setups that might have put this to shame?? if so, you could have just been used to it being "louder", and now that you have downgraded, it only doesnt seem loud to you.

i'm not sure exactly to be honest, i was always impressed with L7's. SQ and SPL... just my .02 though.

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

bump

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

those are the 2 ohm models right? if you had 4 ohm models you should be runnin a 1 ohm load

also is ur box ported?

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

I personally never owned a louder setup, i mean I cant complain too much SQ and SPL are pretty decent. Like 8 years ago a buddy of mine had 2 15" kicker comps, they couldnt of had that much power to them, and man those were LOUD. Now I get a system that is like 10 times as much and has 8 years of technology on top of it, and I dont think it comes even close. U think another battery would do? or do I need to get some 15"s?

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

those are the 2 ohm models right? if you had 4 ohm models you should be runnin a 1 ohm load
also is ur box ported?

helllooooo????

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

those are the 2 ohm models right? if you had 4 ohm models you should be runnin a 1 ohm load
also is ur box ported?

Man I did TONS of research before I made this desicion. But ended up getting the wrong ohm sub anyway, but I mean does it really matter if it a 4ohm or 2ohm? Orion says it puts out 1700 at 2ohm, so if I am wired at 2 ohm they should be getting like 1700watts right?

Yes box is ported to kicker street specs.

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

an extra battery wouldn't do it, i believe that what you heard 8 yrs a go wasn't louder then your setup now, it's just that you were in such awe back then that this seems hardly comparable... just my 2 cents

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

an extra battery wouldn't do it, i believe that what you heard 8 yrs a go wasn't louder then your setup now, it's just that you were in such awe back then that this seems hardly comparable... just my 2 cents

I hope that this is not true..I guess when u hear it for the first time its like drugs, you will never experience the same first high.. lol

 

[psych0ticnemes1 5,000+ posts]

I hope that this is not true..I guess when u hear it for the first time its like drugs, you will never experience the same first high.. lol

bingo... the first setup i heard was 2 power acoustik FUBRs sealed off of 500rms each.. i thought it was the loudest thing around... NOT...

 

[slideking 10+ year member]

bingo... the first setup i heard was 2 power acoustik FUBRs sealed off of 500rms each.. i thought it was the loudest thing around... NOT...

Im just not going to buy anything anymore

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

In all likely hood you were just expecting too much, however, there are a few things that you should check out.

The comment earlier about something being wired out of phase is very possible. This goes along with just the wiring concept in general. It is possible that (you've got dual 2 ohm subs right?) rather than wiring at 2 ohms, you've got them wired to 8 ohms which would substantially decrease the power they're seeing.

Secondly, if that's fine, check your gains. Take out the multimeter and see what kind of power you're actually putting out. If you've got the gains set way too low for the input voltage you could be seeing a lot less power than you think.

Finally, it may just be your car. Trucks - despite being small - are known to, in general, not be very good at "getting loud." It's been my experience that trucks are usually worse acoustically than trunk cars, which are worse than hatchbacks/SUVs...so you're at the bottom of that totem pole.

Another thing you may want to look at is port area, and also the overall construction of the box. If you've got leaks then you're going to lose SPL, and if you've got too little port area your going to lose a lot of potential (along with picking up port noise).

Also try positioning your box in different orientations...that can have a lot to do with output in some vehicles.

There are a LOT of variables, including yet another that I'm thinking of which is power wire...what size do you have running to the amp? In essense, I'll stop babbling, but there are a TON of things that could be going wrong. With that said I'd assume you probably just expected too much...however I've never been disappointed in L7's for SPL...never was a fan of their SQ, but always loud.

 

[PepsiFiend69 10+ year member]

are they brand new? sometimes some of the kicker l7's have a break in period where they wont be quite as loud as they should be, under normal use they should break in in about a week.

a friend of mine had this problem with his 2005 15" L7, after everything loosened up it wanged pretty good.

also like someone had mentioned, check and make sure they're wired in 2 ohm instead of 8 ohm.

good luck

Joe.