Old School Kicker Substation 80 Tubes...

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

Okay, so in re-designing my stereo system, i decided to ditch my boston acoustics 6.5's cuz they sound like garbage from being used a lot really loud, having trash get down into the motor structure (dont ask how). So i decided that for the sake of clearance for my new fiberglass boxes, i would fiberglass over the holes i had cut into the hatch bay cover... leaving this as the first layer of glass...

So yeah i got to thinking, what am i going to use to mount my speakers, and more importantly.. which speakers ami going to use... And as i looked around my room i noticed a pair of old kicker Substation 80 tubes laying on my floor and it gave me an idea. What if i fiberglassed those onto the hatch cover? i would also add some tweeters and an amp with highpass/lowpass crossover... Does anyone know about those old substation 80s? like frequency response, power handling, etc? i want to use them as midbass... how would i go about isolating the frequency range from.. oh about 80hz - 400hz? I was gonna do some frosted plexiglass back there while im at it.. like a big long poece between the 2 subs.. i think itll look badas!

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[nYc.kablamO 10+ year member]

i had one of those, i think it was the 100, iirc it was awesome for what it was but that was like yrs ago..i was ~17, car audio was just blossoming and i thought my 10" blue thunders were almighty.

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

dude these kickers rock the house... theyre MAD old school too.. came out of a car we bought long ago... a 1990 acura legend. Dont know if they were hand me downs form another car or what... but **** kicker sure made some good shit in the 90s that wasnt over priced!

actually, they make me sad cuz they havent been used in like 2 years, cuz my dad got all pissed at me and threw one on the ground and completely broke the front MDF piece off with the sub attatched... so it was un usable unless i cut a new piece of MDF for it.

BTW how long do subs last? do they wear out or whatever?

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

anything special ya gotta do? just not destroy them huh?

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

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