Ups delivered a new sub today!

[Reidk 10+ year member]

last week i bought this sub that apparently nobody has ever heard of. I bought it off of ebay for 80 bucks shipped. The sub is a Ballistic BA-12. It arrived today and when I pulled it out of the box I was pretty surprised by the size and weight of this thing. It's definetly a beefy sub. I installed the sub in a 1.2 cubic foot sealed enclosure and tested it for about 5 minutes with my phoenix gold octane r 1500.1 amp. It sounded pretty good and handled the power decently but I wouldn't recommend that much power daily. I would say this is a pretty decent budget sub. I'm gonna see how it sounds with ported box and probably install it in one of my other cars. pics posted

here's the specs:

12" Subwoofer

200oz Magnet

Long Excursion Foam Surround

Heavy Grade Non-Press Paper Cone

2.5" 4 Layer Black Aluminum VC

Gold Spring Loaded Terminals

1600 watts max (800 rms)

4 Ohm

Dual Voice Coil

Custom Chrome Basket

Vented Pole Piece

Fs: 22.2 Hz

Xmax: 18.7 mm

Sensitivity: 88.6 dB 2.83V/1m

Qts: .44

Vas: 2.61 cu. ft.

Designed and Engineered in the USA

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[LaserRed38 10+ year member]

Looks like more of a HT sub. Kinda interesting though.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

not bad for 80$

 

[XtwistedX 10+ year member]

not bad at all for 80$

 

[Techchild 10+ year member]

custom chrome basket huh?

 

[Reidk 10+ year member]

one thing I forgot to mention...the tinsel wires are pretty small. I don't know how important that actually is but they are a good deal smaller then some of the other subs i have.

 

[Liquid Bass 10+ year member]

hmm do we have another Mach 5 on the horizon? ehhh prolly not.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

Looks like more of a HT sub. Kinda interesting though.

except not really at all.

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

I get a kick out of the adjectives used by many of the folks/companies out there these days:

Long Excursion Foam Surround (it's a foam surround)

Heavy Grade Non-Press Paper Cone (it's a paper cone)

1600 watts max (800 rms) (it's power handling is 800 watts)

Custom Chrome Basket (it has a chrome basket)

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Of course, I say this tongue-and-cheek since I'm just as guilty for doing it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Reidk 10+ year member]

is foam surround really all that bad?