?'s on JL 10w's

[el rafa 10+ year member]

Whats up people. Decided to join up after a little reading.

Debating on either a 10w3v3-2 or 10w6v2

Little info before my ?:

Car: 06 stang

Amp: Alpine MRD-m500 (friend sold to me awhile back, now I want to use it)

Where in trunk: towards back behind backseat firing towards rear

Sub: 1 10inch sealed.....either a 10w3v3-2 or a 10w6v2

I was comparing the 2 on RMS rating. W3 was at 300 rms(optimal) and the w6 right under 500 rms pretty much in orange. I got this from the power range meter on JL's website. Difference in price favors W6 by about 80$. I'm not going to blast this all the time. Maybe here and there. I'm not that much of a bass freak.

I'm eyeing the W3 mainly for price. I can use the 80$ difference for wire, dynomat or whatever. My only concern was that since the amp is rated at about 500rms, according to pwr range of speaker, that's putting it in the "danger zone". Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you use more pwr than sub is rated at as long as you don't crank all the way up and for a long period of time.

Any advice, thanks

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[JimBo930 10+ year member]

you just have to control the gain on the amp. you arent always pushing out 500 rms only if you set the gain accordingly

 

[el rafa 10+ year member]

So I can use the w3 as long as i set the gain to about 1/4.

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

you can use either sub and not worry about hurting them. The W3 is more than capable of taking all of that amp and the W6 will love that range as well. My choice is the W6..its renowned for it's sound quality, much better then the W3

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

theres not much sq difference bewteen the two woofers. just power handling.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

I havent heard a W3v3 but once, wasnt all that great. Kinda boomy but that could be the app.

W6v2 is an amazing driver though IMO.

 

[DaveT 10+ year member]

So I can use the w3 as long as i set the gain to about 1/4.

or you can check out the gain setting sticky in the amp section:

 

[el rafa 10+ year member]

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Thanks man. Alot of info on this site. Now I can't stop reading!

Thanks for replies, think I'm going for the w3 for the price.

 

[Blazin Civic 10+ year member]

W3v3s are amazing drivers...sound great and very efficient.