My friend is selling his system. Should I buy or nah.

[SlugButter]

I apologise for my ignorance. I guess I need to rethink the whole thing. Sealed is out, Fi Q's out, everything in my plan out. I need to learn more about sub specs, and what I trying to accomplish.

I'm glad I haven't bought anything new for this setup yet.

If you had sealed boxes and 1000 rms when you were younger, and liked it. Try doing a custom ported box modeled around a single 12 ported at around 1000-1500 rms. How “younger” are we talking here? 10 years? 20 years? 30?

 

[SlugButter]

If you really liked your sealed setup you used to have, 2 Dayton ultimax 12s in 1 cube sealed per sub on a solid 1200-1500 rms is a pretty damn nice sounding system. I’ve ran a few sealed systems in my past, and those Dayton ultimax subs are pretty darn good for people who like sealed systems. What type of music dominates your listening habits?

 

[AnthonyO 10+ year member]

If you want a sub that sounds great sealed, try and find a CDT QEX-1220. One of those in 1cu.ft sealed running off a nice 500 watt amp. The best sounding sub in a sealed enclosure I have ever heard.

 

[Marve_Lous]

Go with one SSA ZCON 12 in a @Buck designed box and you’ll be set.

 

[Gatorade]

If you had sealed boxes and 1000 rms when you were younger, and liked it. Try doing a custom ported box modeled around a single 12 ported at around 1000-1500 rms. How “younger” are we talking here? 10 years? 20 years? 30?

20 years ago, I was running a kicker 1000.1 for a while on various subs. I had a sealed pro wedge box that I reused with different subs JL wo, old kickers and fosgates. It was in a tiny neon with fold down back seats. Lol.

 

[Gatorade]

I really appreciate the info guys, so thank you. I guess I wasn't quite sure of what I wanted. I thought I wanted a sq system, but I wasn't clear on what that was exactly. Now I know what I really want, which is more of a spl set-up with a nice range of clean, hard hitting bass, including lows.

You guys know this stuff better than I do and the general census is to go ported, and to go with one quality sub in a decent sized ported enclosure over two subs in a smaller sealed enclosure. So my sub options have opened up quite a bit, and my sub budget will allow me to buy one really nice sub. So that's cool.

I'm a working family man so I don't have a ton of money to throw at this stuff, so thank you for preventing me from paying for something stupid. Lol, I guess I need to start looking for a really good sub. I'm going to start with adire, Incriminator, fi, and so on. Whatever I get will go into a professionally built custom ported enclosure.

And I'm getting closer.
Thank you fellas.

 

[SlugButter]

20 years ago, I was running a kicker 1000.1 for a while on various subs. I had a sealed pro wedge box that I reused with different subs JL wo, old kickers and fosgates. It was in a tiny neon with fold down back seats. Lol.

Same subs I used to play with a lot also. I I put the alpine type R in 5 different boxes one summer when I first learned to build boxes decently. I rolled around a whole summer with a Rockford Fosgate 15 in a 5 cubic foot ported box in my Chevy s-10 extended cab also. The good ole days. Lol

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Did somebody need a box design?

 

[mastershake575 10+ year member]

If you really liked your sealed setup you used to have, 2 Dayton ultimax 12s in 1 cube sealed per sub on a solid 1200-1500 rms is a pretty damn nice sounding system.

Yeah those ultimax are amazing for sealed. There easily the best bang for your buck before you start getting into the really expensive options (the next tier up like the IA Flatlyne or Audiofrog GB are anywhere from 2-3x the price).

I really appreciate the info guys, so thank you. I guess I wasn't quite sure of what I wanted. I thought I wanted a sq system, but I wasn't clear on what that was exactly. Now I know what I really want, which is more of a spl set-up with a nice range of clean, hard hitting bass, including lows.

You like the SPL feeling (high output, rattle your entire car) but want a more SQ based driver (low distorition, not peaky, accurate/tight).

If doing a single 12 ported I would do an Adire Audio Tumult on 1500 watts in a custom box. Has the classic sound of the Brahma but with signficantly more output (it's basically a better sounding JL W7).

Sealed on same power those Ultimax 12s are very solid