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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Kicker coaxials are pretty solid on low power and I've always had good luck with Jbl/Infinity lineup. IMO just about anything outside the gutter brands should perform about the same in your price range.

Good to hear you put the drink down. You may be surprised at how much spare money and time you have after a little while of that trend.

They call alcohol "spirits" for a reason.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

I appreciate your input on both subjects. I definitely have a lot of time, it’s just a matter of figuring out how to use it. I haven’t even looked at the current offerings of the “mainstream” brands because it’s just hard to get unbiased information about those products. That’s why I was really interested in the feedback if any from the hertz and focal entry level sets. I’m gonna see if I like anything from a big box store and if I get anything I’ll let everyone following the thread know what I went with.

I know a disabled vet in WV that's in about the same boat as you and started doing some woodworking as a hobby just to figure out something to do with his time about a year ago, he has actually managed to stay very busy and turn it into a source of income.

I would generally avoid entry level offerings of premium brand names because it'll typically be the same Chinese cookie cutter stuff as everybody else sells but a bigger brand-name premium.

Do report back and let us know what you wind up doing.

 

[Rosshimself]

Well it’s been a couple of days and I almost got jbl speakers but they are 2.3 ohm and that doesn’t really play well with head unit power. I went with the kicker coaxial set. I taped up a bunch of holes and cut some melamine to fill the big holes and taped everything up on the drivers side. The weird thing was that they had the wires going out of the door and then back into the door at the drivers mount so I taped the slots and without totally cranking it because I still have a door to do it sounds much better. Now I’m just trying to make my mind up on what kind of enclosure I want to mess with. I know it’s recommended for a very small sealed box, which is not something that I have ever messed with. I wish I had a computer to model it but if I have found a handy little calculator for bandpass enclosures. I don’t know how accurate it is but I think I could get 3db gain and have a relatively flat response where I want the sub to play with a port coming in the rear speaker hole. I’m only trying to put 100w on the sub so I’m gonna go to some pawn shops amp shopping I think. The calculator I found is here https://www.ajdesigner.com/fl_subwoofer/subwoofer.php I have access to a table saw and I plan on doing an external aero if I go the way of the bandpass. If I hate it I can chop the box up use the sealed section and have some legs to down fire it. Please let me know if you think this driver doesn’t model well. I’m aware that I’ll not be able to hear distortion or clipping if I smoke it the guy also had an older punch8 that I got my subwoofer from ok I am prepared for the hate I said bandpass.