You should play it low to moderate volumes for the first 15-20 hours or so to break in the suspension. You will notice a huge difference once it loosens up. You could play it loud at first, but it will sound kinda bad. It is just better to break them in like a car engine. Gentle for a little while, then pound them. :cheers:
You should play it low to moderate volumes for the first 15-20 hours or so to break in the suspension. You will notice a huge difference once it loosens up. You could play it loud at first, but it will sound kinda bad. It is just better to break them in like a car engine. Gentle for a little while, then pound them. :cheers:
I just picked up 2 JL 10W3v2-D2s. I put each of them in their own sealed enclosure at .65ft^3. I wired the voice coils in series to give each sub a 4 ohm impedance. I'm running them from a MTX 6500D mono sub amp at about 800 watts at 2 ohms. So each of the subs is getting about 400watts. I'm still breaking in the subs right now, but will all that juice, they don't need to move very much to pound. :smash:
I'm planning on wiring the single 12w3v2 D4 in parallel for a 2ohm load for the JLAudio 500/1. This will be my first JLAudio amp (I've also got a 300/2 ordered for the front speakers) and it has some type of variable regulator for the ohms in addition to the voltage. My understanding is that from 1.5-4 ohms, this amp will deliver 500w. I haven't yet started to build my cabinet. I had better get busy. :cheers:
I'm planning on wiring the single 12w3v2 D4 in parallel for a 2ohm load for the JLAudio 500/1. This will be my first JLAudio amp (I've also got a 300/2 ordered for the front speakers) and it has some type of variable regulator for the ohms in addition to the voltage. My understanding is that from 1.5-4 ohms, this amp will deliver 500w. I haven't yet started to build my cabinet. I had better get busy. :cheers:
Yes you are correct about the 500/1 amp. 500watts at 1.5-4 ohms. So if you ever wanted to add another 12w3v2 D4, just wire both subs in series for an 8 ohm impedance per sub. By hooking up two 8 ohm subs to a mono amp, it will "see" a 4 omh load. That will be 250 watts for each sub, not too shabby.
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I'm planning on wiring the single 12w3v2 D4 in parallel for a 2ohm load for the JLAudio 500/1. This will be my first JLAudio amp (I've also got a 300/2 ordered for the front speakers) and it has some type of variable regulator for the ohms in addition to the voltage. My understanding is that from 1.5-4 ohms, this amp will deliver 500w. I haven't yet started to build my cabinet. I had better get busy. :cheers:
Yes you are correct about the 500/1 amp. 500watts at 1.5-4 ohms. So if you ever wanted to add another 12w3v2 D4, just wire both subs in series for an 8 ohm impedance per sub. By hooking up two 8 ohm subs to a mono amp, it will "see" a 4 omh load. That will be 250 watts for each sub, not too shabby.
[Modified by leolufse, 11:22 AM 12/23/2002]
Yeah, in essence they are wired series/parallel since they're hooked to a mono amp. Just in case anyone is interested.....if you don't have a mono sub amp and if your amp handles 2-Ohm MONO not stereo, you could just wire the subs series/parallel yourself by wiring the 2-Ohm DVC's in series to 4-Ohm and then the two subs together in parallel (bridged) to the amp leaving a 2-Ohm mono load on the amp. If you had 4-Ohm DVC's you could wire them in series to 8-Ohm then the subs together in parallel to the amp for a 4-Ohm mono load. This last Ohm configuration is better for amps not designed for a 2-Ohm mono load, which most non-mono amps aren't.
Just a little FYI for any who want to know. :seeya
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