~~ WANTED OG Knowledge/Info on Old School Subwoofers ~~

[DBBOOM 10+ year member]

Good seller here with some nice O/S stuff. Bought an amp from him last week.

 

[TNTR70 10+ year member]

i had rf audiophiles back in the 90's, no high surround but a goofy hard flat dust cover

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

Yeah, I had a pair of the 12's, sounded great, but didnt like my 200ix very much. Heated one up so bad the magnets shifted lol

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

2 Things:
1) I could swear Rockford did a high roll in the mid 90's with the Audiophile series or the "new" power series.

2) That girl is fat and ugly, and her *** is already half way to the floor, I don't even want to see where it is in 10 years.

I just sold 2 sets of Fosgate Audiophile subs and neither one had a high roll surround.

1 set was the very first release with the flat Dustcap and rubber surround.

the second set was the Red Fosgate RF Audiophie lettering on a HUGE concave 7" dustcap. They had the same surround as the other subs in that era.

Unless there is an Audiophile sub I am missing, I'll try and find photo's

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

I just sold 2 sets of Fosgate Audiophile subs and neither one had a high roll surround.
1 set was the very first release with the flat Dustcap and rubber surround.

the second set was the Red Fosgate RF Audiophie lettering on a HUGE concave 7" dustcap. They had the same surround as the other subs in that era.

Unless there is an Audiophile sub I am missing, I'll try and find photo's

You are correct, I was mistaken. I had the original ones with the heavy dustcap as well.

That girl is still fugly tho............

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Not my subs but those are the models I had

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

You are correct, I was mistaken. I had the original ones with the heavy dustcap as well.
That girl is still fugly tho............

Yeah DO NOT WANT! comes to mind.

I dont mind a female with a little bit in the trunk but thats to much for me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

Yeah, the orignals were wierd, I think the dustcap was made of wood for extra wieght I guess.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Balsa wood I think. Same shit that those $1.00 rubber band airplans are made of //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

Yeah, they didnt like to pound though.. after my 6th warranty exchange, my slesman finally said enough is enough, and traded them in for a pair of Power 15's. I had the first pair in Minnesota lol. Those were some nasty subs.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

I had Several of the Punch Pro 12's 15's and a pair of the 18's

Those subs got down right loud!

 

[cx-7heaven 10+ year member]

These:

http://www.rockfordfosgate.com/library/datasheets/rfr-1415_1815-ts.pdf

 

[Electrodynamic 10+ year member]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that they will get their "ass handed to them" by the majority of today's subs. The Nuke 12's and 15's have a BL^2/Re of 137, which is pretty darned good...even with today's standards. Sure they won't keep up with some of the big boys on the market now, but they'll definitely give a lot of drivers out there today a run for their money and/or beat them in the SPL lanes. And that's coming from a driver that was built back in 1997.

They weren't built by Atomic either. They were their own build house - the owner, Anatoly, and his two sons ran the place and the owners wife, Sophia, was the worst receptionist in the world. Haha.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

There's no way a 200ix made two nuclears stinky. One nuke could handle two 200ix's. Or are you talking about RF Audiophiles? That would make alot more sense.

How did this thread topic change to crappy old RF subs anyway? And yes, Ive owned every rf sub mentioned here... crap, all of them. Especially the Audiophile series. If you looked at them intensely, they would blow. Audiophile mids were the same... way too delicate.

The punch and power series handled power well, and got loud, but were muddy as pigs. Nuclears were a level or two above any of those RF subs, even the punch powers. I had punches and punch powers at the time every wanted nukes, and I was jealous as hell.

GZ was never affiliated with Atomic that I know of. And the Nuke was definitely never the same as an Apoc, at least not in the early years when the Nuke first came out. TC Sounds was affiliated with them tho, and many of their products sported the now famous TC basket, including later model Nuclears and Plutoniums. GZ USA went out of business several years ago. I honestly dont follow GZ Europe to know much about them beyond they are still going strong and considered fairly popular over seas.

 

[TurbanRacer 10+ year member]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that they will get their "ass handed to them" by the majority of today's subs. The Nuke 12's and 15's have a BL^2/Re of 137, which is pretty darned good...even with today's standards. Sure they won't keep up with some of the big boys on the market now, but they'll definitely give a lot of drivers out there today a run for their money and/or beat them in the SPL lanes. And that's coming from a driver that was built back in 1997.

They weren't built by Atomic either. They were their own build house - the owner, Anatoly, and his two sons ran the place and the owners wife, Sophia, was the worst receptionist in the world. Haha.

There's no way a 200ix made two nuclears stinky. One nuke could handle two 200ix's. Or are you talking about RF Audiophiles? That would make alot more sense.
How did this thread topic change to crappy old RF subs anyway? And yes, Ive owned every rf sub mentioned here... crap, all of them. Especially the Audiophile series. If you looked at them intensely, they would blow. Audiophile mids were the same... way too delicate.

The punch and power series handled power well, and got loud, but were muddy as pigs. Nuclears were a level or two above any of those RF subs, even the punch powers. I had punches and punch powers at the time every wanted nukes, and I was jealous as hell.

GZ was never affiliated with Atomic that I know of. And the Nuke was definitely never the same as an Apoc, at least not in the early years when the Nuke first came out. TC Sounds was affiliated with them tho, and many of their products sported the now famous TC basket, including later model Nuclears and Plutoniums. GZ USA went out of business several years ago. I honestly dont follow GZ Europe to know much about them beyond they are still going strong and considered fairly popular over seas.

Grrrreat.. This is the type of info i'm lookin for..

Ok so moreless how much do you think i can get for these 12" GZ Nukes in this market? I really have no use for them..I purchased the subs in 2001, I built that 3/8" MDF box in 2003.. Finally used the speaker in 2006 for a matter of minutes and never used again.. I don't even no the potenial of these subs as i was runnin a PPI PC2350 and it kept pullin to much current poppin the fuse up front..