I know that -- I am simply asking him what drivers he thinks are better and why (objectively). I am always testing various products as well to make sure mine are competitive. I am not stating the SA is the best speaker ever as I think anything can be improved. It's a serious question at face value.
Some do, but many take it very literally and think they can put that much power on a 2.5" coil.
You can...You can put huge power to the SA- subs intermittently on Music...Of course tones and burps are just DIFFERENT..No big difference there from any sub. My Massive Audio DMX15-Stage2 shows 1,500 in the owners manual on music when it can take 20 seconds of 5k CLEAN without getting warm..Ok subs can be drastically underrated...They underrate them @ 600 watts because at 600 watts you can beat on them for years and nothing will happen, at 1500 watts their life span drops exponentially, we know this and we're prepared...If you see 600 watts on a speaker and put 1500 to it you'd better know what you're doing, and for how long you plan on doing it.
For that price; nothing dude, get a 2kw amp and go nuts on those boys..But break them in on rated for a couple weeks, of course.
I think I have an idea about "under ratting" sub woofer wattage. The issue is people who are inexperienced think that you can safely run WAY over the specified ratted power for the sub woofer. So what happens is they run out and get some cheap crap amp that says it will do 1500watts (because so much of car audio now has turned into a pissing contest) and then they clip the crap out of the signal. Hence the purpose to rate the sub woofer under it's actual thermal ratting in the first place. So like I said, many take it very literally and think they can put that much power on a 2.5" coil.
This is commonly mis-understood -- depends on the frequency... typically under 50 hz a lower sensitivity driver will out-perform a higher sensitivity driver by a large margin; especially in a small box (car audio):
True. lol
Well without getting too scientific it is generally accepted that; the more sensitive a speaker is the louder said speaker will get ( in dBs ) under particular measurement conditions ( 1w/1m ) at a certain frequency or frequencies..A sub with a 1w/1m volume of 103db will get louder -- powered by 1 watt, listened to from 1 meter away -- than a sub with a 1w/1m volume of 83...
indeed it should be...I'm sticking with the skars....kevin s also gave me a killer deal on a sub and bo combo...
Easy now , we can start the $150 SQ subwoofer showdown right now if you would like. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
We should start a thread in a different area for that one lol..But seriously..Let's do it lol. I'm interested in what subs you think sound better / louder / etc. in and around the $200 price point.
