MTX Jackhammer

I just finished watching the brand new "Pimp My Ride" on MTV. They put in a the Jackhammer which is a monster sub holy shit. They needed 3 batteries, 6 caps, and 5 amps to run the thing. It weighs 320 lbs, 23" tall, 22" wide, 6k RMS and 12k peak. God that'd be awesome to have that. Everyone always talks about how loud and clear their subs are you wouldn't even have to say anything just open the trunk put the volume on 5 and it's already louder than theirs. Peoples mouths would just be hanging open.

http://www.mtxaudio.com/caraudio/products/subwoofers/jackHammer.cfm

It's $6k

hahahaha. i dont want it but it is pretty awesome. Just so you know Audiobahn makes a 34" 5,000 Watt sub.

yeah but i think when you compare the 2(audiobahn and mtx) i think mtx is a much better brand.

i agree i was just throwing that out there

thats stupid as shit, why? i mean, i like loud, but that jsut stupid. of course you could bas anyone out @ like 10% volume, but the there jsut be like, yea... well i bought a new car, and my system, and i still spent 2K less then you.

You guys are idiots, that shit is all a gimmick. I'll take an 18" MT over that anyday an probably destroy the MTX or AudioPawn.

I never heard anyone here say that they were actually going to buy it....so yeah were idiots.

The only people that would ever buy this are people that are rich and have money to burn. Not the average person for his everyday driver. So are we idiots for just talking about a new sub?

wut bout that kicker soloX. I saw one at this stereo shop n that shit was a monster. didn't get to hear it tho

Ok these kinds of subs are built for one thing: SPL. not quality, just pure loudness. that means you dont want them if you listen to anything but solid bass, which i doubt. You would be alot better off buying two 12's then one huge sub like these.

To loosly quote someone from a different audio board...

"MTX felt like making a huge subwoofer, so they did. [/thread]"

I saw that thing this weekend at the car show I was in. MTX brought that thing along with Mad Mike. They didn't play it, but I asked the MTX guy what SPL they hit with that thing. He said the 160's.

Now, to put this in perspective, the loudest SPL @ the audio portion, the IASCA comp section, of the show...was 167.3. I saw them hit that. It was 4 Phoenix Gold Titanium Comp subs, and so much other crap I can't even remember it. I know it had the whole rear hatch with batteries, steel lined and reinforced. It was nuts.

My point...the Jackhammer could hit into the 160's, the rep said. These 4 guys from Canada...their 4 12 PG set-up hit 167.3. Granted, they had the cra built for it...it was apure SPL car...down to the key'd ignition under the hood and the rev control under there...and the headunit able to be moved outside the car. Still...their total cost wasn't any worse than the price of that beast, and it outdid what the rep said the jackhammer could do. If fact, I saw show mad mike and the rep and what there's could do when they walked over that way.

I've seen that audiobahn one too...a shop in Gresham has it hanging from the ceiling. Having seen both, I can say it's way bigger in sizr than the jackhammer even. Still...both are a gross and exsessive waste of money. No need for that...ever...even for pure SPL. Those guys I talked about above are a perfect example.

As was said...it boils down to this. MTX and Audiobahn wanted to build a huge subwoofer that was the definination of exssessive...so they did.

sorta like eDuh's uperwoofer thing that will never work???

MTX=garbadge...id like to se this 160's from that hung of steaming shit...its a waste of metal, strictly looking at it it would take a HUGE enclsorue to get anytype of desired performance...its like trying to stuff an 18 into 4cuft ported...you;s be better off wit ha single 15.... this is stuffing 22" into 10cuft or w/e...you'd be better off with an 18...and audiobahns 36 is just gay...

sorta like eDuh's uperwoofer thing that will never work???

MTX=garbadge...id like to se this 160's from that hung of steaming shit...its a waste of metal, strictly looking at it it would take a HUGE enclsorue to get anytype of desired performance...its like trying to stuff an 18 into 4cuft ported...you;s be better off wit ha single 15.... this is stuffing 22" into 10cuft or w/e...you'd be better off with an 18...and audiobahns 36 is just gay...

Yeah...no kidding. I was not impressed with either one at all. The jackhammer...they wouldn't even play sound we can hear through it...they just had some sub-sonic test tones going so you could see it move, but couldn't hear it. I was like....this is supposed to impress me? I didn't care for it

I was right next to the booth where they were doing the SPL portion of the IASCA comp, thats why I saw those guys from Canada hit that 167.3.

I was there for the car show part. I thought about entering the SQ and SPL but didn't have the extra $$. The IASCA guys told me afterwards they thought I could have placed in SQ. SPL would have been tough, but I would have done that just to see what I hit if I'd had the $$. The best part was when the MTX rep saw my trunk and car...full of all nice Phoenix Gold stuff...and said " you gotta get MTX in there." I said back the truth, "I took out my MTX and other stuff for this."

The Phoenix Gold sounds clean and hits loud and clear...not like MTX. MTX is just SPL...not SQ at all. Phoenix Gold is SQ and can still wail. :2cents:

I've seen the audiobahn one at a shop here, he suspends it from a crane looking thing that you use to pull motors out of a car

I've seen the audiobahn one at a shop here, he suspends it from a crane looking thing that you use to pull motors out of a car

Hahaha, that's a new use for a cherry picker.

It's somethin for noobs to google over :(

NG

sorta like eDuh's uperwoofer thing that will never work???

MTX=garbadge...id like to se this 160's from that hung of steaming shit...its a waste of metal, strictly looking at it it would take a HUGE enclsorue to get anytype of desired performance...its like trying to stuff an 18 into 4cuft ported...you;s be better off wit ha single 15.... this is stuffing 22" into 10cuft or w/e...you'd be better off with an 18...and audiobahns 36 is just gay...

stfu noob and quit trying to act like josh laine's faggot ass sayin eduh. and I'm sure a 160 is possible from this beast in a well built wall. and MTX is definately not garbage 9500's are loud as hell and 1501d's are some of the most rock solid amps I've played with. And no they don't need huge enclosures...... what's that 5" LINEAR xmax...... well shit this beast has more displacement then 2 of your AV 18's.

stfu noob and quit trying to act like josh laine's faggot ass sayin eduh. and I'm sure a 160 is possible from this beast in a well built wall. and MTX is definately not garbage 9500's are loud as hell and 1501d's are some of the most rock solid amps I've played with. And no they don't need huge enclosures...... what's that 5" LINEAR xmax...... well shit this beast has more displacement then 2 of your AV 18's.

Oh, I am sure that and the Audiobahn one will hit perfectly loud in the right situation. I wasn't impressed they only had a sub-sonic test tone playing through it though. Besides, I suppose I was less impressed since he said 160's and I saw those guys from Canada hit a 167.3 with those 4 Phoenix Gold Titanium Comp subs. I guess I expected to here a number louder than what they hit, considering the shear size of the thing (and it WAS every bit as big as it sounds). I am sure it would be very loud with actual sound coming through it. After all, MTX isn't an SQ brand with subs...they are all about SPL. That's what this thing is, it's clearly an SPL sub. It's an SPL sub built by an SPL brand. You are right, if SPL alone is your thing, those thunder 9500's slam!!! I am sure this thing could of hit HARD with ease if they wanted...which clearly wasn't their goal there or they would have played something we could hear.

As I said though, I suppose I just expected to hear it could output more than they said. If I had talked to them BEFORE I saw those guys hit 167.3, I might not be quiet as unimpressed with it...that and I REALLY wanted to here the guy play a tone through it...but alas....they only played subsonic test tones. Had some big ass excrusion though, I can tell you that. I should have taken some pictures of it and posted em in here. :mad:

stfu noob and quit trying to act like josh laine's faggot ass sayin eduh. and I'm sure a 160 is possible from this beast in a well built wall. and MTX is definately not garbage 9500's are loud as hell and 1501d's are some of the most rock solid amps I've played with. And no they don't need huge enclosures...... what's that 5" LINEAR xmax...... well shit this beast has more displacement then 2 of your AV 18's.

you know what i just realized? you are an alter ego'd, small in the pants, gotta try and make up for it, dumbass who may know a thing or two about something and blows it way out of the water. If you had any idea what it takes to hit 160 on termlab or what type of enclosure it would take to bring this "jackhammer" to its full potential you would have never posted this.
The reference to MTX as garbage was strictly due to the facts that they are 100% bassed over SPL and that they push this 22" driver like its an audio god or soemthing, as already stated, they dont even play realy sounds to show it off...they play a subsonic tone. :eek7: wow that is amazing, if you talk to the representatives (at least to the ones i have talked to) who have ran the Jackhammer's exibits they havent even heard it except for in SPL set ups, and they would not tell me what it had hit.
Making a 36" car stereo (even home) woofer is like wanting to drop a 14 litre Inline 6 semi diesel with a leaky gasket into a tahoe...it makes no sence. and then to ask $3600 for the hung of chrome garbage...and you want to defend it?
i use Eduh because i think its a pretty funny saying and IMO the Nine.1 is the only thing worth buying form eD...on top of being banned from ICSXsounds.com or w/e it is for absoluely no reason by ben and his cronies, or im sorry its beause i stated that i like RE's product, and beaing treated like shit on the phone.


and you want to come lash out at me? :screwy:

oh and BTW...congratulations...we want to play displacement games...if it had the displacement of 4 of Ava18's it would only be 6dB louder theoretically...

lets say this 22" driver has 24l of displacement...that is 6 times what one Ava18 can displace...but in theory it can only get 7dB louder...since we are playing displacement games. but it would also require an enclosre 6 times as large...so lets say my Ava18 can do 143 on term lab...so this 22" can do 150 on term lab... but it would require an enclosure 6 times as large...since we are playing the displacement game.

want to play with a 36cuft enclosire? and then try to tune it with 6 times as much port area... 462sqin...ill let you crunch the numbers...
see if you can fit that in anything but a used uhaul truck...
maybe you can play Puff daddy and drive a diet pepsi truck...since we are playing the displacement game...

undoubtedly it can get quite loud... but my ava 18 is a true sub woofer... wont touch over 60-70Hz...what is this now? an infrasubwoofer? i doubt you could get it near 5" P2P in anything but infrasonic and near infrasonic tones... the coil needed to give it its massive power handleing to get it moving probably has humongo inductance....so let that frequincy get veyr high and see how quickly your impedance shoots though the sky...and good luck getting near power needed to get it moving nice with a 8ohm+ impeadance...

It's A Fucking Marketing Gimmick, That As Far As I Can See Is The Best Executed 20+ Inch Sub So Far.


Drop It!

you know what i just realized? you are an alter ego'd, small in the pants, gotta try and make up for it, dumbass who may know a thing or two about something and blows it way out of the water. If you had any idea what it takes to hit 160 on termlab or what type of enclosure it would take to bring this "jackhammer" to its full potential you would have never posted this.
The reference to MTX as garbage was strictly due to the facts that they are 100% bassed over SPL and that they push this 22" driver like its an audio god or soemthing, as already stated, they dont even play realy sounds to show it off...they play a subsonic tone. :eek7: wow that is amazing, if you talk to the representatives (at least to the ones i have talked to) who have ran the Jackhammer's exibits they havent even heard it except for in SPL set ups, and they would not tell me what it had hit.
Making a 36" car stereo (even home) woofer is like wanting to drop a 14 litre Inline 6 semi diesel with a leaky gasket into a tahoe...it makes no sence. and then to ask $3600 for the hung of chrome garbage...and you want to defend it?
i use Eduh because i think its a pretty funny saying and IMO the Nine.1 is the only thing worth buying form eD...on top of being banned from ICSXsounds.com or w/e it is for absoluely no reason by ben and his cronies, or im sorry its beause i stated that i like RE's product, and beaing treated like shit on the phone.


and you want to come lash out at me? :screwy:


u crack me up noob...... you've never seen me before or even know who I am and u try to crack on me..... NICE!!! oh well I got better things to do then post whore on the internet but before I go......
I do know what it takes to hit a 160... trust me I got more experience then anyone here except probably ngsm13 with competition..... full potential....by that you mean full excursion....oh shit you just proved you don't know shit about spl..... its not about how much he cone moves its about how loud you can get at the fs of the vehicle..... and if you tune right below it you won't move alot because what's that ohh shit you get PORT DAMPING!!!!!!! wow that means we can throw a shitton of power on a sub without bottoming it out at X frequency and its gunna get insanely loud. I'm done......

shoot son all i have to say is kicker solo X 18"

Nice old thread. Read the guidlines.