What brands do people like for subwoofer?

Only to people who don't know how to make a box.  lol

I've made numerous boxes for others as well as for my own cars.  Once you understand the principle of it, building a ported box is simple.  There are countless ported box "calculators" online to help.  Imagine doing this using equations back in the day without the internet.  That was difficult.  
I decided to make a ported and got help here

 
Note: This list was already existent, I just updated it and moved some brands around. If anything looks weird or out of place i may have overlooked it.

We've broken this section into 4 categories:
1: Bad
2: Questionable
3: Good
4: Highest quality

Bad

Absolute
American HiFi (Rockwood)
American Pro
Audiovox
Automobile
Becker
Blackmore
Boschmann
Boss
Craig
DHD
Dual
Emerson
JDL
Jensen
Kenford
Kole
Kraco
Kronik
LA Sound
Legacy
MA Audio
Optimus (Radio Shack)
Pheonix Digital
Planet Audio (Boss, by any other name)
Power Acoustik
Profile
Pyle
Pyramid
Rockwood
Sound Storm
Sparkomatic
SPL Audio
Stetsom
Thump
Ultimate Sounds
Urban Audio
US Amps- the newer stuff
Visonik
Volfenhag

Questionable

Alphasonik
Autotek
Audiobahn
Audiopipe
Blaupunkt
Aiwa
Crunch
Elemental Designs (eD)
Hifonics
Hollywood
Kenwood (amplifiers)
Lanzar
Lightning Audio
Matsui
MB Quart
Nakamichi (newer products)
NVX Audio
Onyx Mobile Audio
Panasonic
Phoenix Gold (ask on specific models)
Pioneer (amplifiers and speakers)
Precision Power (PPI) (newer non-US made amplifiers)
RE Audio- newer stuff
Rockford Fosgate (lower series products)
SAS Bazooka (all products)
Sony Xplod
Vibe

Good

Alpine (amplifiers, Type-R speakers and subs)
Altec Lansing
Alumapro
Ample Audio
Ascendant
Audio Development
Avionixx
Boston Acoustics
Cadence
Cerwin Vega (subs)
Clarion (head units)
Clifford (alarms)
Cliff designs
Coustic
Crescendo Audio
Crossfire
Crystal
DC Audio
Directed (DEI)
Dynamat
Earthquake
Eaton
Helix
Hushmat
Illusion
Incriminater Audio 
Infinity
JBL (amplifiers)
JVC Digifine
Kenwood Excelon (HU)
Kicker
Kinetik (batteries)
Lunar
Massive Audio
Memphis Audio
MTX (amplifiers)
Orion (newer products)
Phoenix Gold (some models)
Pioneer- HU's
Polk Audio
Powerbass
Rockford Fosgate (Power Series amp and subs)
Second Skin (deadner)
Skar Audio (owner/company seems to be very shadey/unethical)
Soundstream
SSA Audio
Stereo Integrity
USAcoustics
Viper/DEI (alarms)

Highest Quality

a/d/s
Adire
Alpine (head units, signal processors)
Arc Audio
Audax
Audio Control
Audison
Brax
Butler Audio
CD Technologies (CDT)
Diamond Audio (HEX)
Digital Designs (DD)
DLS
DynAudio
Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)
Esoteric Audio
FI Audio
Focal
Gladen
Harrison Labs
Helix
Hertz
Hybrid Audio
Image Dynamics (ID)
JL Audio (W6v2, W6v3, W7. ZR components,Slash and HD series amps)
KEF Kar components
Kove
Luxman
McIntosh Laboratories
MMATS
Morel
Mosconi
Nakamichi (Older products)
Ohio Alternator
Orion (older products)
OZ Audio
Pioneer Premiere (head units)
Precision Power (PPI) (Art series amps, old)
Rainbow
Resonant Engineering (RE) Older Stuff
Rockford Fosgate (older 1980s and 1990s models)
Sinfoni
Streetwirez
Stinger
Sundown Audio
Treo
Tru tech
US Amps (older amps)
Wrangler Alternators
XS Power (batteries)
Xtant
Zapco
Zed Audio
*Funky PuP 

I hope this helped good luck mate!  :)

 
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Ive enjoyed the American Bass XFLs thus far, I ve beat the crap out of them and even played mildly and never had any issues. Money well spent. American Bass XO series subs are pretty decent for the money.Dayton HO subs are nice for the money, Ive enjoyed a couple sets of PSI platform 2, and 3 subs.. a few Polks, cheap Lanzar Max Pros, Alpine Type Rs,Elemental Designs,MTX 9500 series,Sound Qubed HDS and HD series older versions,Some older USA made Audiobahn AW series subs likethe AW 1008T, and AW1006t,Immortial series,Bostons,JBLs,Eclipse,The Skar VVX series was a decent sub,Audio Tehcnix Trapo series,NVX subs are not too bad, ran a pair of 12s that did fairly nice,Some old earthquakes old Kicker Still water series,M&M,JLs,MB Quart,S.Streams,God Fathers,Atomics,Arc 1ks,older DD subs,Older RE subs,Older SPL DVC 1 ohm subs did nicely,Icons were some nice subs,SA I never got what I wanted out of them after about 8 different enclosures but did do nice just not what I was expecting,FIsubs were really nice prob should have kept those 4 12s.there are quite a few options out there. Just depends on what vehicle you have and what spece you are willing to give up and what kind of power you are wanting and all that comes with a budget, possible electrical upgrades ect to be considered and type of music along with proper tuning/proper enclosure for that sub/subs

 
Good list, but SSA needs to be bumped up a level. ;)
Particularly if Fi OEM'd most of your products and they made the top tier.  Speaking of which, I hope you guys figured out a way to maintain QC, rumor has it that they are not doing OEM any more.

 
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Soundstream needs to be moved from good to bad. Their quality has gone downhill a lot of the years. Just recently, their amps internals have been cheaper....therefore not as good as compared to others.

 
Oh snap...I didn't see DC Audio on there which is good, ED is excellent also. I happen to run one of their biggest amps they made in my vehicle and people love their amps...

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Particularly if Fi OEM'd most of your products and they made the top tier.  Speaking of which, I hope you guys figured out a way to maintain QC, rumor has it that they are not doing OEM any more.
Correct, they are no longer doing OEM work.  With the new set up, QC has improved as we test everything ourselves before shipping.

 
Fanatics Bass.   Nothing like it because all soft parts are built in house and also hold several World Records in DbDrag.

 
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