car audio..jl audio or kicker?

hey..my buddy is buying a system for his car.. he is either getting …
(2) 12" kicker solobaric L7…the 2002 model i think..deff not the new one..its the silver cone with the little blue piece in the middle.. OR.. a jlaudio W7 13.5" subwoofer. which one would be louder..please help because he is going to buy on friday..thanks..
by the way…he has a nice 2000w rms soundstream amp which he payed $500 from a dealer..so which sub should he pick.

jl is way better in loudness and sound quality. the people that said kicker probably never heard a jl audio.

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5 Responses to “ car audio..jl audio or kicker? ”

1. Tim says:

   June 29, 2009 at 8:35 pm

   i have always been a kicker person. so i always go with kicker . they have never failed me..
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2. inktownlegend says:

   June 29, 2009 at 9:17 pm

   dont want to be a hater but that amp is medocre at best (trash), it is not CEA-compliant which means that it has been tested and produces or exceeds the advertised RMS wattage with minimum distortion (distortion over time is the MAIN cause of speaker damage)
   so he would be lucky to get half of the advertised RMS wattage and it would more than likely be distorted
   here are the top CEA-compliant brands
   Alpine
   Bazooka
   Blaupunkt
   Clarion
   Eclipse
   Infinity
   JBL
   JL Audio
   JVC
   Kenwood
   Kicker
   Lightning Audio
   MTX
   Orion
   Pioneer
   Polk Audio
   PPI
   Rockford Fosgate
   Sony
   http://www.ce.org/Standards/3108.asp

   If you send too much power to your sub, you risk damaging it. The cone of the speaker and the mechanical parts that make it move may break under the stress. Surprisingly, too little power can also damage your subwoofer — in fact, it's actually more common than damage caused by overpowering.
   When the volume is turned up and the amp doesn't have enough power, the signal becomes distorted, or "clipped." This distorted signal can cause parts of the speaker to overheat, warp and melt. Not good!
   You don't have to match speaker and amp wattages exactly. An amp with a higher output than the speaker's rating won't necessarily damage the speaker — just turn the amp down a bit if you hear distortion from the sub and don't run the speaker at extremely loud volumes for lengthy periods. Likewise, you'll be OK with a lower powered amp if you keep the volume down and don't feed a distorted signal to the sub
   you will send the amp into clipping
   Clipping
   Clipping occurs when an amplifier is asked to deliver more current to a speaker than the amp is capable of doing. When an amplifier clips, it literally cuts off the tops and bottoms of the musical waveforms that it's trying to reproduce, thus the term. This introduces a huge amount of distortion into the output signal. Clipping can be heard as a crunching sound on musical peaks.
   that causes distorted sound which will damage your subs

   the amount of bass you get is determined by a few different things
   –cone surface area (two will always beat one)
   –RMS wattage
   –box type
   –frequency response
   –sensitivity
   go with the kickers
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3. tom g says:

   June 29, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   the jls have a nicer sound but kickers a f***in loud, but sound like garbage,

   i had jls and i loved them played lots of metal and fast beats and rap and techno and a bit of everything and they performed well on everything and had astounding range,

   but i still get in my friends with kickers and im amazed at how much louder his subs are even though im running almost double the wattage

   so if he wants loud go with kicker,
   if he wants all around good performance go with the jls

   and i just payed 6 hundred for a 1000 watt rms rockford,

   so i can gaurentee he isnt gonna be gettin anywhere near his 2000 that the amp says he will,

   maybe 1000

   with lots of distortion or at like 1 ohm
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4. RPM says:

   June 29, 2009 at 10:06 pm

   Powered correctly and with the proper enclosure, 2 12" L7's will outpound 1 13.5" W7. But between the two setups, the W7 will probably outlast the Kickers. Be a little skeptical about L7's that've been laying around for 7 years. The L7's are notorious for having reliability issues. Something to keep in mind before dropping big money on premium subs.
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5. uhoh says:

   June 29, 2009 at 10:37 pm

   jl is way better in loudness and sound quality. the people that said kicker probably never heard a jl audio.
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