Well I finally decided to get some wang in the ole ride. I got a couple of 12" Kicker Solobaric L5's. Built a 5, yes you read correctly 5 cu. ft. ported box (this thing was so hard to build for that trunk...) and finally got it seated halfway decent. Went out and bought a JL Audio 1000/1 amp because I'm such a friggin bass-head! Fellas, this damn system is making my car straight fall apart! Oh and btw, this is all ran off the factory Blose HU. Since the JL amps can take either a low-level or high-level input I decided to just splice off of the sub wires already in the back (after the sub amp) and make my own set of RCAs back there. No need to change HU, no need to add a line-level to RCA converter. Overall system installation was fairly simple. There is an existing hole in the firewall in which no wires run, easily fit a 4 guage power wire through it and down the dash and finally down the drivers side of the ride. No wires showing except the one end on the amp and one end at the positive terminal.

When my ears stop ringing I'll post an afterthought.

 

by a couple you mean 2?....sounds nice

 

what did u end up tuning the box at. I had a single L5 powerd by a rockford 500bd in a ported box tuned at 33 hz and the sucker was loud loud loud, and also stayed pretty linear with clean output.

 

njtls - yes, 2

dnd2984 - it sounds like the resonant frequency is around 45 but damn do those subs sound loud and clean at just about every freq.

I'm lovin the setup, just need to upgrade the rest of the system now...lol

 

man...ive been without bass forever...shortly after i had my sytem put in one sub blew...and as that was beign replaced the other one blew...that was in the begginning of summer!!!...right now im on one 12 inch L7 thats has only like 100 watts going to it or something..whatever..it's barelly noticalbe...i have yet to feel the effects of my investment...stop braggin about your bass!!! it makes me miss mine

 

NJ are u using your Bassboost. turn the gains down and see if it helps so the sub dont keep blowing,

 

bassboost has never been more then half up....i was told there was a bad batch of subs...who knows...we'll see onc ei get the second sub back and the amp is turned back up

 

Damn njtls, what kind of amp are you runnin?!
Those L7's bang from what I've been told, never actually heard them in action though. I definitely feel that for what I paid for these L5's they bang just as hard if not harder than the Eclipse 8812's I used to have which I paid $280 a piece.

 

im runing a 1500 watt rockford....they did hit pretty hard when i acutlay got to hear them...their probably on par with yours ...since my box is smaller then yours

 

u want a song datl hit hard... DL Damn by the young bloodz. its kinda old now but once the bass line drops ull b deafff!! lol i love banging that song on my 10w7.

 

well if i had a w7i'd be hittin those bass drop songs....but i jsut dont trust my subs after what happen with them

 

all you would hear is the low bass... those W7's don't hit any notes above about 40hz, hehe

 

haha since i dont kno much about systems, is dat good??

 

not IMHO, those W7's straight pound but no mid bass so basically they cut off after a certain frequency

 

yeah..but if i had a w7 i wouldnt expect to get my midbass form them....some nice componets up fornt would do the trick