these are great little bangers! they look awesome too!
Great upgrade in tight spaces, perfect for shallow doors. Not to crazy about the grills but didn't need to use them anyway.
Great Speaker sound great amplified or unamplified, they pound!! A perfect mid bass speaker, and you can't beat the price
I use these in my Chevy Asto's Rear Dutch Doors in an isobaric (push-pull) configuration. There are 3 pairs in each door. I placed fiberglass layers inside the doors and a coating of pickup truck bedliner. I also put on a layer of fiberglass on the outside of the doors with a repaint. This did an outstanding job at dampning and simply a solid door/enclosure to mount these babies. 12 8"supossed midbass speakers that blow away 10's, 12's and 15's. 168db at 55hz...the bass drum's center frequency. I also recorded more than 130db at 25hz and more than 150hz at 85hz...hows that for a tiny speaker?
Good speakers I have them mounted in my front doors of my 04 chevy. Dont put out as much bass as I thought they would. Make sure you get a big amp to push these babies
Jerry From Southern Indiana i agree good speaker but if they are only rated down to 30 hz how did you do 130 db that low?
One rule of thumb is that manufacture frequency ratings are generalities. Speakers can and do play frequencies that are outside of the ratings depending on enclosure types, power supplied and the type of signal played. I used the T/S parameters from Kicker to manufacture the best enclosure( luckily my back doors coated with several layers of fiberglass for dampning and stiffening, followed by urethane liner and Dynamat). I also have the speaker arrangement where there are 3 speakers inside each door firing out of phase with 3 more bolted to thier face, thereby doubling the speaker cone area. There is also 1 1500wrms amp for each set of 6 speakers wired into a 1 ohm load and the amplifiers have built in variable subsonic filters coupled with adjustable low pass filters. I also send 30 second set frequency test tones during the db tests and not instant on/off tones such as you would hear from a kickdrum. Also note that these speakers play loudest at 55hz, with decreasing SPL below and above that frequency. By the way 150hz was a typo...should have been 150db. Class Dismissed.
