Ben
09-05-2006, 08:48 PM
Back in my day of high class audio systems I built this for my Cav. It houses three Focal 5WS subs which is a 5" sub rated at 80wrms / 150w peak.
You think yeah right, a 5" sub with only 80wrms:lmao:
They have a low sensitivity of 80db and a resistance of 5ohms IIRC so they take some power to drive them, the way they are configured are all run in parallel with one pos & one neg wire coming out so were running just under 2ohms so a suitable amp is needed. I was running them off an Audison amp at 600wrms and they loved it, sounded brilliant.
Being situated in the passenger footwell the bass is right up front in the car rather than being distant & far behind in the boot & when ran with a sub in the boot I could fade them in & out for demonstration purposes & my god the differance they make is unreal. Being a small enclosure & a small speaker multiplied by a few makes the bass a real hard punchy bass aswell as being able to drop a little.
They don't have the deep bass response as a twelve or fifteen but I ran these with a thirteen in the boot & there was times driving around I thought the bass in the car was too heavy so bring up the menu to turn off the thirteen inch sub in the boot off only to find it's already switched off & so have to turn these 5" subs down some.
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell1.JPG
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell2.JPG
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell3.JPG
These speakers retailed at £100 each & a custom box like this which took 2 days labour to build would be around £200, a guy on ebay has just sold these subs at £51 each.
Looking for £200 for this.
Incidentley these complement the speakers Marc is selling beautifuly:Cool2: so for less than £500 for top end components & sub box (All Eutopia range) then £500 for a good amp, that's a grand for a top SQ system.:Cool2: And not to mention keeping your boot free.
You think yeah right, a 5" sub with only 80wrms:lmao:
They have a low sensitivity of 80db and a resistance of 5ohms IIRC so they take some power to drive them, the way they are configured are all run in parallel with one pos & one neg wire coming out so were running just under 2ohms so a suitable amp is needed. I was running them off an Audison amp at 600wrms and they loved it, sounded brilliant.
Being situated in the passenger footwell the bass is right up front in the car rather than being distant & far behind in the boot & when ran with a sub in the boot I could fade them in & out for demonstration purposes & my god the differance they make is unreal. Being a small enclosure & a small speaker multiplied by a few makes the bass a real hard punchy bass aswell as being able to drop a little.
They don't have the deep bass response as a twelve or fifteen but I ran these with a thirteen in the boot & there was times driving around I thought the bass in the car was too heavy so bring up the menu to turn off the thirteen inch sub in the boot off only to find it's already switched off & so have to turn these 5" subs down some.
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell1.JPG
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell2.JPG
http://www.vauxcav.co.uk/cavwebgallery/data/media/2/kickwell3.JPG
These speakers retailed at £100 each & a custom box like this which took 2 days labour to build would be around £200, a guy on ebay has just sold these subs at £51 each.
Looking for £200 for this.
Incidentley these complement the speakers Marc is selling beautifuly:Cool2: so for less than £500 for top end components & sub box (All Eutopia range) then £500 for a good amp, that's a grand for a top SQ system.:Cool2: And not to mention keeping your boot free.