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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8144261" data-attributes="member: 655960">Of the three you mentioned, Ascendant and Sundown would be my picks. I&#039;ve never used the Ascendant subs but I have the other two and if you&#039;re looking at the upper end Skar stuff, they&#039;re probably good. The problem I have is that I bought some IVX- v1 10s, 12s &amp;amp; 15s and wasn&#039;t too happy with them. The subs sounded good but the pole vent is tiny and, in fact, so tiny that if you mount one inverted the pole piece makes a whistling sound. I&#039;m sure it does so if mounted with the motor in the box too, it&#039;s just that you can&#039;t hear it. As for power handling, they&#039;re rated at 300 watts and probably do well on that power. However, I tested the 10s and the 15s with 500 and 1000 watts and they bottom out very easily. Especially when compared to an RE SRX and a JBL GTO Pro 10 that I&#039;ve also recently tested... those are 400 &amp;amp; 300 wrms respectively and neither bottoms out on even 1000 watts. They do fine but obviously, get hot.I know that Skar has gone to a much larger pole vent on the v2 IVX woofers so at least they are addressing design flaws but in the end, I&#039;m not too please with performance.The post above me is good, too. I have no experience with the C2 audio woofers but I also haven&#039;t read a bad review on them and, they look to be of good quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8144261, member: 655960"] Of the three you mentioned, Ascendant and Sundown would be my picks. I've never used the Ascendant subs but I have the other two and if you're looking at the upper end Skar stuff, they're probably good. The problem I have is that I bought some IVX- v1 10s, 12s & 15s and wasn't too happy with them. The subs sounded good but the pole vent is tiny and, in fact, so tiny that if you mount one inverted the pole piece makes a whistling sound. I'm sure it does so if mounted with the motor in the box too, it's just that you can't hear it. As for power handling, they're rated at 300 watts and probably do well on that power. However, I tested the 10s and the 15s with 500 and 1000 watts and they bottom out very easily. Especially when compared to an RE SRX and a JBL GTO Pro 10 that I've also recently tested... those are 400 & 300 wrms respectively and neither bottoms out on even 1000 watts. They do fine but obviously, get hot. I know that Skar has gone to a much larger pole vent on the v2 IVX woofers so at least they are addressing design flaws but in the end, I'm not too please with performance. The post above me is good, too. I have no experience with the C2 audio woofers but I also haven't read a bad review on them and, they look to be of good quality. [/QUOTE]

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