yea I would go with the L7. It seems to me that you were having second thoughts because you thought the SE would get louder. I doubt it. SE is a SQ driver sometimes tends to stick to the lower frequencies. I had one ported at 32 HZ and it sounded pretty good for the lil jon, etc music, but when it came to other things like my bay rap stuff, it would hit loud rarely. Then I tried to put it in a sealed box to help out with the "punchy bass" and it wouldnt even hit at all sometimes. I gess it really only likes the lows.