UPS just dropped off my new 12" AA Assassin

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

Will do!

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

Question for you all as well. I'm building my own box for this and it's to be my first build. It's for a trunk. Is there a perfect direction for a sealed enclosure sub to fire. Toward the rear, toward the front, in a wedge pointed toward the rear deck. Right now I'm planning a wedge just because it seems reasonable to aim at the rear deck because it has holes. Does it even matter?

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

That is something you can do by trial and error, because what matters is that you like the sound. I prefer rearward, but that is me.

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

Good call. thanks

 

[XanderMoser 10+ year member]

Question for you all as well. I'm building my own box for this and it's to be my first build. It's for a trunk. Is there a perfect direction for a sealed enclosure sub to fire. Toward the rear, toward the front, in a wedge pointed toward the rear deck. Right now I'm planning a wedge just because it seems reasonable to aim at the rear deck because it has holes. Does it even matter?

In most situations, rear firing tends to lead to the least amount of cancellation and best sounding bass. But it is completely install and car dependent, so just try all the positions and angles you can think of. That's half the fun!

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

I've gone to a straight box now instead of a wedge so it should be easier to mess with positions.

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

So finally finished building the box and installing everything for the new Assassin and it sounds great!!! I really don't have much to compare it to, my previous sub was a 10" orion extreme in a bandpass box and I have put the assassin in a sealed box and am running it with more power. Sounds delightful though I couldn't be happier.

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

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Glad you like it man.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

pretty beefy looking for a 250W sub,how much power do they really need?

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

I'm giving 250 ish maybe a little more. Using a BXI606 at 2 ohm, I'm not sure if these amps are overrated but I have a feeling they are slightly.

 

[germanyt 10+ year member]

**** cones r sexy

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

**** cones r sexy

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[NewToTheGrounds 10+ year member]

ya the amp should push about what its rated

 

[Justintoxicated 10+ year member]

I was feeding my old assassin 10" abot 400 watts NP, The new ones look to be rated higher. That surround is hybrid foam right? I mean it's not foam like a JL Audio sub, but not regular rubber either. Is it kind of stiff? I wonder if thats one of the reasons why they say these new versions can handle more power, than the last, even though they decided to lower the RMS for warranty reasons and to be conservative.

 

[truthancisco 10+ year member]

Yeah the surround felt like rubber to me because of the stiffness but it is foam as far as I can tell. Pretty kewl stuff.