What would you do?

[KK07 10+ year member]

Hi there, for the past few months I've been running my SoundSplinter 12" RL-I subwoofers off of my Crossfire BMF1000D. I bought them used, and the second I hooked them up, I had tinsel lead slap on only one of the subs but turned the gains down and all was fine. Within a few weeks, the same sub that had tinsel lead slapping, had its rubber lining (gasket?) start to peel off. I e-mailed Mike at soundsplinter and he said he'd have to recone it. I ran the sub for another 3-4 months ahha and it finally gave out, there's a fat hole in the cone now, I'll have to take a picture of it for you guys.

Okay well now on to my question, I had the 2 rl-i's in a sealed box, 1.25 cu feet sealed with 500 watts rms each. I set the gains by ear, turned the gains all the way down, put volume to the loudest I'd listen to it daily, and then slowly turned gains up until I heard distortion, this was only like..1/8th of the way up? Maybe not even that much and bass boost on my Premier DEH-8MP was at +2. The set up was loud and accurate but it wasn't as loud as I want it to be. So now I'm faced with 2 options, either I pay $120 USD shipped for a recone or I jump on the bandwagon and buy the latest internet craze, 2 12" type r's.

The way I'm thinking now, I'd like more SPL this time around, I can port the type r's but the RL-I's aren't recommended to be run in a vented application. If you had to make this decision, what would you do? The Type R's aren't my only option, those are just what I'm wanting the most right now. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

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[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

i've seen alot of people port rl-is i'd send it and get a recone then port em and if its still not loud enough, sell em and get whatever

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

type r = //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsdown.gif.d22f25895e9b40f2300c953691dacfa2.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif j/k lol

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

na i have great respect for type rs a 130 dollar sub that can get louder than most super woofers, i just would like something different lol spkerman has done great things with the type r's, but i still dont think they're the best overall woofer in the world ya know

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

i just want my atlas and i'll be happy lol, oh and i see you have 5x7 comps what do you have explorer? (off topic i know)

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

ahhh i got a ranger...im lookin for a good set of 5x7 components but i cant find any i like lol i got memphis mclass in there now and they distort really bad, diamond audio did make a set of 5x7 comps but i cant find them anymore

oh and atlas 15 in standard cab ranger blowthru = loudness //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

lol i need 5 x7s and a matching set of 5.25s and maybe a set of 4s

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

we've basically turned every morning thread on here into a convo hahaha

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

atleast we answered his question first to the best of our knowledge:uhoh:

lol true

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

this forum needs like a chatroom or sumthin, cause i get tired of my pm box gettin filled haha

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

hey your not tha guy with the tauras that has that vid on ROE.com are you, where the wing is like flappin hard as hell