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General => Car audio => Topic started by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 15:25

Title: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 15:25

jl subs are they any good????
was gonna do a boot build and buy 2x10inch 300w i do believe

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: troublestarter on 13 January 2010, 15:57

they are indeed good subs which ones have you got

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Madmax on 13 January 2010, 16:47

Bit of a hijack but is their cheaper stuff decent? Looking at a 10" for £80.

Sorry again. :evil:

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: troublestarter on 13 January 2010, 17:21

pretty much all the ranges of jl are good
yes there is better stuff around for the £80 mark but there is also a lot of really bad aswell

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 19:44

dont no wat they r dude,havent got them yet but saw sum 4 sale 2x10inch 300w 4 100quid,brand new!!!!u reckon i should purchase??????

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: troublestarter on 13 January 2010, 20:42

worth a punt me thinks

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 21:05

cool dude

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 21:06

next is the amp dude,then comps for the rear and the front doors
doing a boot build myself out of fibre glass which should be fun

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: S11EPS on 13 January 2010, 21:08

JL subs are fantastic chap;
I have had a 10" dual voice coil number for years and years, in a propoer JL box.
It has been spanked by an Alpine V12 amp and still sounds incredible.
Do you know the model number of the subs you've seen?
What amp are you going to be using to power them?

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 13 January 2010, 21:13

all i no is that there white??????lol
yer wat amps wood u go 4?????
comps,wood u go through head unit or use another amp????

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: XTC on 14 January 2010, 18:14

Ive had a 12" JL in the back of my car that was rated at 600 watts, i had this in a non-ported box and hooked up to a 600watt audiobahn amplifier, sounded great! wasnt too clever on the real low frequencies but plenty punchy enough,

If your looking for the low frequency shake your car and brain to pieces without spending an arm and a leg then the pioneer TS-W3001D4 is a great choice, i had just one of these hooked up to a lanzar MXA-282 (not the greatest amp i know), and the thing was insane and so crisp!! Cost me £80 second hand off ebay for the sub, amp and a great quality ported box!!

Another nice, cheap and great sounding set-up is the Vibe CBR12 double ported enclosure with 1600watt CBR sub and in-built Blackbox 1 amp (600 watts), ya can pick these up for less than £100 now and they sound fantastic without having to faff about with mounting amp and wiring etc, will run great off just an 8 gauge wiring kit as well!

As for the components id run them off a serperate 4 channel amp, would be nice if you can change the settings from one set of 2 channels to the next  (adjust front from back), it'll cost a little more obviously but ive never even thought about running them off my head unit again, massive difference (obviously depending on quality of amp and speakers, mine are top of the range pioneer speakers hooked up to a 200watt pheonix gold amplier)


Hope this helps...

Title: Re: jl subs
Post by: Walkerboy on 14 January 2010, 22:34

excellent dude,cheers muchly
think its gonna have to wait for abit as hopefully buy a vr for my conversion on sat!!!!wheeeeeeee.lol