Audiobahn ?'s

[beatboxn420]

Ok, I have been talking to my friends bout audio for the whip. I've seen these subs, and they looks sick as hell. But my friends say Audiobahn burn up and blow easily and quick. Whats everybodys inputs on them before I blow my bank on them.

Audiobahn AWIS15P

15" Immortal Series Subwoofer

Product Description:

• 15" high-performance subwoofer
• Immortal Series
• proprietary tall excursion foam surround
• ultra light 2-layer carbon fiber, Kevlar cone with aluminum dust cap
• 200 oz. triple stack magnet
• quad voice coil wound on black anodized aluminum former
• multi-connect lug lock terminals
• chrome plated 3-dimensional cast aluminum basket
• dual layer spider
• aluminum basket and magnet mesh cover

Subwoofer Specifications:

• Subwoofer Size 15"
• Impedance Quad 2 ohms
• Dual Voice Coil No, Quad Voice Coil
• Peak Power Handling 4500 watts approx.
• RMS Power Handling 2250 watts
• Woofer Surround Foam Surround
• Woofer Composition N/A
• Sealed Box Volume Not Recommended
• Ported Box Volume 1.9 - 3.75 cubic ft.
• Sensitivity 97 dB
• Frequency Response 20 - 700 Hz
• Xmax (millimeters) N/A
• Top Mount Depth 9-5/8"
• Cutout Diameter 13-3/4"
• Warranty 1-year SE

[bjboertje]

audiobomb sucks.

[pimprolla112]

The chrome basket and clean looking cone dont make for a good sub, there just for show, and yes audiobomb is crap.

Look into soundsplinter, and incriminator audio before you think about that crap.

[PaulD]

I think you will find that most people that know about car audio stuff will tell you the same thing ...... audiobahn is pretty much all show and no go.

[knorwj]

My audiobahn's ROCK, I've had them for about 5 years and they still hit crisp and clean and blow most other systems I encounter on the street out of the water. I bought mine right before audiobahn started with all their flame junk. I believe they are AW1205Q or AWT1205Q I can't remember. I started off running them on some cheapo pyramid amp while I saved up for a better one, they sounded good. I wound up messing that amp up ran them on only 300 watts for awhile and they still rocked. I then picked up a nicer Hifonics amp to power them and now they really sound great. Now that I'm getting a little older I don't crank it as much as I used to but they still make my hair stand on end even at half power.

I never heard bad things about audiobahn till they started making all those flame series things. My guess is maybe they dropped quality for looks? too bad I suppose. I would look at other brands or maybe older audiobahns like mine.

PS: stay away from audiobahn amps, I had one and it blew literally and figuratively.

[jtvyper456]

Agreed. Audiobahn sucks.

[beatboxn420]

Ive heard the older audiobahn is better then the new ones. Im sure thats true. Another question, i dont understand the difference in 1, 2 or 4 ohms, can someone clear that up? and Whats the difference between Peak and RMS?

PS: I am a newb when it comes to audio.

[bjboertje]

only look at rms, this is the max continuous power the driver can handle.
ohms is the measure of resistance to current. the lower the ohms the less resistance, meaning the amp will push more power, but if the resistance is too low the amp will become unstable.

[PaulD]

dang, the old 1205/1505 series is like 10 years old ....... and true, their quality has greatly suffered since then, that used to be a popular sub back in the day - kinda like RE, sound splinter, stereo integrity, etc .. Look at what has happened with adire ...

[beatboxn420]

so what is better? 1,2,4 ohms? or does it depend on the application

[bjboertje]

depends on the amp.

[pimprolla112]

Yep, il go a little more in depth to help you understand

Theres several kind of voice coil setups the main 3 are single, dual and quad voice coils. Il keep it simple so il stick to the single and dual. Now theres 2-kinds of wiring setups that can be done parallel and series, when you wire in parallel, it gets tricky say you have one dual voice coil 4ohm subs, in this case you would take the 4ohm and divide it by 2 which nets 2-ohms of resitance, now say its a DVC 2ohm, no it becomes 1-ohm of resistance.

Where it gets tricky is in the dual sub setups say you have 2-DVC 4 ohm subs wiring them in parallel will net a 1-ohm final load, and with the DVC 2 ohms it becomes .5ohm final resistance. Theres wiring guides all over the net for this infinity, kicker, rockford, crutchfield, practiaclly anywhere you can get them has a wiring diagram.

This is my favorite one you just enter the value of the resistance and put it down for as many coils as you have

http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/boxcalcs.asp

Now for series wiring you just add the resistance to how many coils you have so say you have a dvc 4 ohm, now it becomes 8 when wired in series, for dvc 2-ohm it becomes 4ohm.

Liek stated it depends on the amp on how you wire it. Now there are subs that get crazy like quad .5ohm, and 3 ohm, and ive seen quad .25 ohm before. But keep to the basics of single and dual voice coils.

[PlayStation3]

there are 3 ways to wire it. series, series parallel, parallel. not just two.



and to the which ohm is better. 4 and higher usally sounds better but with subs you can't tell the difference.

[pimprolla112]

C'mon man i was trying to keep it somewhat simple.

But yeah there are 3 ways.

[PlayStation3]

yea i know but with dvc 2 ohm subs series parallel wiring is being used more then series. and maybe even parallel since most amps that are .5 ohm stable tend to be pricey