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Old school subs

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:56 am
by GX3
How far we have come. Getting ready to Drive to Chicago tomorrow for a funeral. So i decide to pull out the old school Kicker i put in my vehicle wile my better half uses it for work. I can't believe my eyes. Keep in mind the title of this post. This box your about to see came in a car i bought around 2000 a 91 T-Bird SC. I pulled the box out of the car and it has been sitting in a corner for years. Its a 10" kicker comp good ass sub ......... at the time! I wanted to drop in a X10D just as a quick replacement for the trip too much work to put my 4 TI10s back in) This is what i found
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yes that is an 18GA speaker wire in a partial board box :shock: i put this in so my subs wouldn't end up getting damaged. I wondered why this thing always sounded so bad. i thought maybe due to the age. i think the 18ga speaker wire had a little something to do with it. So i put the X10 in ( yes i used this same box dont have the time today to build one) and replaced the speaker wire with 10GA. It sounds just a bit better :lol: Had to share i got a good laugh when I pulled the kicker out and set it next to the X10

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:07 am
by Bfowler
hahaha...yeah the xenon is a beast to begin with!

that sir is why 500watts in 94 was PLENTY and why now no one bats an eye when you are running ~1500 watts


course that is also why we have 10" subs that can play down to about 18z....

i sure do love xenon 10s :twisted:

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:15 am
by oldskoolmseriesfan
Ive always found putting in a little polyfil in the box does wonders for the sound :wink: Empty boxes sound like crap to my ears 8)

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:19 am
by vin78
oldskoolmseriesfan wrote:Ive always found putting in a little polyfil in the box does wonders for the sound :wink: Empty boxes sound like crap to my ears 8)
+1 :)

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:21 am
by mhyde71
+2

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:23 am
by stipud
Throw a regular RSD sub next to that Kicker and you'd be much less impressed, especially without the rubber boot.

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:50 am
by GX3
I normaly put fill in but this was a last min idea. And I wasn't going to make a special trip to the store for some today. Got too much to do as it is. Bit I still found a small window to atleast pull that sub out :)