05-20-2004, 02:14 PM
Most of that was spoken through my experience. I always found sony head units to be more user friendly, and put out a little more wattage than alpines. I was never a fan of alpines, not even when eazy e rapped about em.
As far as quarts sounding tinny, Ive never found that, especially the component sets. Its a matter of opinion I guess.
I didnt say anything bad about kickers, when the 1st series competitions came out, I was in love. I dont think Ive heard a speaker SINCE that could match their sound and power. Its just the following series seemed to get progressively worse. Same with the Orion Xtremes.
Like you, Im not COMPLETELY up to date on everything, so the Punch amps could be junk. Its not unusual for products to go downhill quickly.
I dont think crossovers rob punch, yeah, maybe if your using a puny 100 watt amp or something, but you should never be using an amp that small for subs.
I said to use plywood for a box because most people dont want to pay 20-25 bucks for a sheet of mdf. Particle board is great, but if youre unexperienced in making a box, Id make one out of plywood first. I said speaker flex interference for lack of a better term, its when subs sharing the same air space start to interfere with each other during long bass notes, it makes them start to flex in opposite directions when they are supposed to flex in unison.
Yeah, you can get 12s to hit the notes 15s can, but you have to build a box big enough, and your sacrificing those hard hitting notes that are in the majority of most music just to hit those occasional low notes that are pretty rare. It will still hit those hard hitting notes, but the majority of the time it sounds like dogshit. Plus it shortens the life of 12s to hit those really low notes, theyre capable, but not meant to hit those notes. And of course you hit those notes in a bandpass, thats all they can hit is low notes. That had to be a huge bandpass with 4 12s.
So I guess most of what I said wasnt wrong huh?
As far as quarts sounding tinny, Ive never found that, especially the component sets. Its a matter of opinion I guess.
I didnt say anything bad about kickers, when the 1st series competitions came out, I was in love. I dont think Ive heard a speaker SINCE that could match their sound and power. Its just the following series seemed to get progressively worse. Same with the Orion Xtremes.
Like you, Im not COMPLETELY up to date on everything, so the Punch amps could be junk. Its not unusual for products to go downhill quickly.
I dont think crossovers rob punch, yeah, maybe if your using a puny 100 watt amp or something, but you should never be using an amp that small for subs.
I said to use plywood for a box because most people dont want to pay 20-25 bucks for a sheet of mdf. Particle board is great, but if youre unexperienced in making a box, Id make one out of plywood first. I said speaker flex interference for lack of a better term, its when subs sharing the same air space start to interfere with each other during long bass notes, it makes them start to flex in opposite directions when they are supposed to flex in unison.
Yeah, you can get 12s to hit the notes 15s can, but you have to build a box big enough, and your sacrificing those hard hitting notes that are in the majority of most music just to hit those occasional low notes that are pretty rare. It will still hit those hard hitting notes, but the majority of the time it sounds like dogshit. Plus it shortens the life of 12s to hit those really low notes, theyre capable, but not meant to hit those notes. And of course you hit those notes in a bandpass, thats all they can hit is low notes. That had to be a huge bandpass with 4 12s.
So I guess most of what I said wasnt wrong huh?