mixing different subs

[ken72988 10+ year member]

Triple 10" sealed enclosure...

two 10" Alpine type-r's and one 10" kicker L7 in the middle...

how would that sound? in a trunk

yeh, assume all three are getting the same wattage

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[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

no......

 

[dan5505 10+ year member]

no......

like he said, dont mix match subs. do some searching to find out why

 

[SeanDub 10+ year member]

no

 

[skydeaner 10+ year member]

try it, if you like it keep it. I have heard a lot of people talk about cancellation but if you are powering them with the same amp I dont see how that would make any logical sense. And i have continually seen people throw an extra "wahtever" in their trunk that didn't match their current setup and heart it get louder, so there ya go. The sound quality wouldn't be great with the combo you listed though lol.

 

[biggen_bd 10+ year member]

mix = bad

 

[dan5505 10+ year member]

try it, if you like it keep it. I have heard a lot of people talk about cancellation but if you are powering them with the same amp I dont see how that would make any logical sense. And i have continually seen people throw an extra "wahtever" in their trunk that didn't match their current setup and heart it get louder, so there ya go. The sound quality wouldn't be great with the combo you listed though lol.

your right, it will probably be louder, but will probably sound like ***. Might as well just buy 3 type r's or 3 L7's

 

[ultimate157 5,000+ posts]

try it, if you like it keep it. I have heard a lot of people talk about cancellation but if you are powering them with the same amp I dont see how that would make any logical sense. And i have continually seen people throw an extra "wahtever" in their trunk that didn't match their current setup and heart it get louder, so there ya go. The sound quality wouldn't be great with the combo you listed though lol.

No.

 

[bass_lover1 10+ year member]

try it, if you like it keep it. I have heard a lot of people talk about cancellation but if you are powering them with the same amp I dont see how that would make any logical sense. And i have continually seen people throw an extra "wahtever" in their trunk that didn't match their current setup and heart it get louder, so there ya go. The sound quality wouldn't be great with the combo you listed though lol.

No, they wouldn't receive the same amount of power.

When you wire the 3 of them together to create a circuit, yes you will get an impedance load that the amp will see. However, the resistance of the coils will not change.

If you have two single 4 ohm coils, and a single 2 ohm coil, wired in parallel the amp will see a 1ohm circuit, but this does not change the impedance of the individual coils. Meaning, the coil with lower resistance will still receive more power, than the other two with a higher impedance coil.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Same power or not, different subs will react to their enclosure/environment/the material differently. Instead of having speakers work together and compliment each other, it will make the freq response more erratic. But then you have people like skydeaner who hear it get louder, so they assume its 'better'.

Cancellation is a mis-used term in thissituation most times, its leads to alot of confusion.

In closing, chose one sub brand/model or the other. There is no logical advantage in trying to run both.

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

your right, it will probably be louder, but will probably sound like ***. Might as well just buy 3 type r's or 3 L7's

simple as that

 

[BJ The Man 10+ year member]

why would you mix subs anyways? it looks terribly ghetto and just plain bad IMO.

 

[I love bass 10+ year member]

boooty

i heard two kicker tens and two kicker 12's and that even had a little distortion so if youre putting an L7 in the mix, it's gonna be weiird and ..

no.

 

[dillinja666 10+ year member]

hell i tried a idmax v2 and a v3 together one time to see if it would work...sounded way funky..i ended up useing just the v3

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

you fail