mach 5 or memphis pr

[mr_imperial 10+ year member]

what do you guys think. im looking to put either of the two (12) in a sealed truck box. looking for good output from a sealed box but dont to much care about sq just not sloppy

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[mrray13 10+ year member]

a year or so ago, i would've screamed pr. but memphis quality is on the downslide. while i still believe that the pr is the best entry level mainstreme sub on the market, the maw12 is jsut too much woofer. it's like getting an m3 at pr cost.

go maw12, never look at memphis again, lol.

btw, i send off at least 10 woofers a week to memphis for warranty. it's about 50/50 as to the idiots who own them and teh quality of the product. jsut last week, we pulled an 12 m3 outa it's package and it was DOA. teh memphis pr1.500 that was to push it, died at the age of three days.

i cry. i so used to love memphis.

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[mr_imperial 10+ year member]

thanks for the reply btw do you know a ballpark number for the shipping on a maw12 . im to lazy to set up an account

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

Find an older PR, problem solved...............

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

a year or so ago, i would've screamed pr. but memphis quality is on the downslide. while i still believe that the pr is the best entry level mainstreme sub on the market, the maw12 is jsut too much woofer. it's like getting an m3 at pr cost.

go maw12, never look at memphis again, lol.

btw, i send off at least 10 woofers a week to memphis for warranty. it's about 50/50 as to the idiots who own them and teh quality of the product. jsut last week, we pulled an 12 m3 outa it's package and it was DOA. teh memphis pr1.500 that was to push it, died at the age of three days.

i cry. i so used to love memphis.

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That doesn't sound right to me. I've owned a fair bit of Memphis gear and never had a problem. Is their upper-end stuff still retaining quality (mainly interested in the M-Class lines). I probably won't go to them for subs again, just because they're too expensive for the level of equipment I want. But out of the 6 amps I've owned, 4 were either Memphis M-Class or Studio Line.

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

i don't have a clue. the shop at ssa doesn't carry the 12, so you'll have to contact mark either at his forum at ssa, at his website (http://www.mach5audio.com/ ), or pm him here, http://www.caraudio.com/forum/member.php?u=28480

mark will give ya all the info you need.

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[southstylestang 10+ year member]

id say mach 5 but then again every memphis i heard sounded kinda bad on sq. but one wasnt installed correctly and the other one was in a convertible. anways can somebody mention where to get mach 5's at other then ssa.com? all i seen there was 15's and 18's. but maybe i didnt look in the right place or something.

 

[RipDaJacka]

.. man i just had the same exact this Vs that goin on.. im goin 3 maw 15's sealed on 1500watts in a crown vic.. waitin on my brother for scrape up some cash before we can buy

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

That doesn't sound right to me. I've owned a fair bit of Memphis gear and never had a problem. Is their upper-end stuff still retaining quality (mainly interested in the M-Class lines). I probably won't go to them for subs again, just because they're too expensive for the level of equipment I want. But out of the 6 amps I've owned, 4 were either Memphis M-Class or Studio Line.

if you ask some of the older members, they'll tell you i used to scream memphis at every opportunity. the old st1100d is what got me hooked, and a pair of 10" hpos. but here lately, i won't buy anything memphis in an amp, would only buy the pr or mojo subwoofer and the sync speakers. everything else is pretty much becoming a crap shoot.

i still own memphis ( 6.5sqs in my front doors, 4x6 mclass rears, powered by a mch1300, teh big belle.) but i won't buy anything more. and i get it at discount. if i buy from work, i buy kicker. i send off 10-15 memphis items to every 1 kicker. and if i send off kicker, it's 90% user error. memphis? 50/50.

sure, one could get older memphis and have great stuff. but what if it breaks?

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[mrray13 10+ year member]

id say mach 5 but then again every memphis i heard sounded kinda bad on sq. but one wasnt installed correctly and the other one was in a convertible. anways can somebody mention where to get mach 5's at other then ssa.com? all i seen there was 15's and 18's. but maybe i didnt look in the right place or something.

ssa only carries the maw15 and mj18....you have to go direct to mach5audio.com

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[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

if you ask some of the older members, they'll tell you i used to scream memphis at every opportunity. the old st1100d is what got me hooked, and a pair of 10" hpos. but here lately, i won't buy anything memphis in an amp, would only buy the pr or mojo subwoofer and the sync speakers. everything else is pretty much becoming a crap shoot.
i still own memphis ( 6.5sqs in my front doors, 4x6 mclass rears, powered by a mch1300, teh big belle.) but i won't buy anything more. and i get it at discount. if i buy from work, i buy kicker. i send off 10-15 memphis items to every 1 kicker. and if i send off kicker, it's 90% user error. memphis? 50/50.

sure, one could get older memphis and have great stuff. but what if it breaks?

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I thought the boards on the new M-class amps were the same as the old M-class amps. I know the boards carried over form the Studio Line to the first-gen M-class.

 

[Hintzyboy 5,000+ posts]

Hell, the Studio and First-gen M-class are basically the same amp with a different badge and finish on the case.

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

yep...and the new mclass goes to service about 6 times more often. in the case of the amps, i just don't think the heatsink is efficient enough for starters. adn maybe they are using lesser quality parts ont eh inside.

teh new prs are the same way. supposed to be the same internally as last years, yet the new ones are coming outa the box junk. we've sent in every single new pr amp mono block that we've sold for warranty work. every single one. one at three days of use. if someone can explain it to me, i'm all ears. as of right now, memphis is junk IME.

btw, the old st and first gen mclass were outstanding amps. ( i had to reread your post, sorry. tired old man here) when they switched the mclass to the current heatsink, that's when all their troubles began.

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[southstylestang 10+ year member]

ssa only carries the maw15 and mj18....you have to go direct to mach5audio.com



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thanks. im going to go check out the site now. ive still got my heart set on 2 15's tho b/c i only have exactly 36in to work with but i thought it would be nice to see what else i could get for some friends of mine thats looking.

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

your welcome.

if 15s is what yoru after, you can get those for a bit less overall at the ssa shop. price might be higher, but shipping should be less. mach5 is in canada. ssa isn't, lol...

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