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@@jeffrobinson4841 skar prefabs really aren't that great in my experience I've tried 4 different boxes on my vxf 12's D4 2skar prefabs. A qbomb box then just a regular sub box.. The armor series and then the regular box from skar which were 3.8CF and it got so quiet spl hit the FLOOR The original box I got that was made out of 3/8 MDF were better than the scar prefab boxes I got I've disliked them both on SPL standards though I will say they sound great SQ wise I'm currently housing a QBOMB XL series box 4.25 Cf and it's insanely loud Just my 2 vxfs on a 3k put enough air pressure in the cabin to float a bag in the window. And that's firing into the trunk as well
It's a great video and I hope there are more like this coming; the only thing missing here is a "what's inside?" section where we see what gauge speaker wire is inside the box, and whether the seams are sealed, polyfill added, etc. Thanks!
I tell you what, I love my SKAR equipment. It's got a very very fair price for the product they make. I really like the pre-fab boxes they make. They look really good and you can even use them in the house if you want to. I can't find any fault in any of the SKAR products. I really want that SKAR 18 and box for my home theater also.
Based on several of your tests (amps and subs) I went ahead and picked up a Rockville DB11 + 10" sub/enclosure kit a couple weeks ago. Really really good price (under $200 for entire kit shipped), and it's perfect for my Jeep. Doesn't overpower my speakers, but gets plenty loud with no distortion, and adds great low-end. I can still hear it at 70mph with no top and doors. Thanks for testing all the stuff you do, and for being honest about it. You're like Project Farm for car audio.
I do love Skar. I purchased the SDR Triple 8inch box paired with the RP1200 and it's crazy for what it is. Definitely blew me away and went behond my expectations!! Highly recommend
I've been eyeing that very setup for my daily. Mostly because it's compact and looks pretty cool. Considering 3 8's has the same cone area as 2 10's, it's no surprise they thump. Thanks for the feedback!
Ive been pretty happy with my sdr's. i Have 4 18 sdr's in a flatwall in my bronco on a jp63 and 35ah lto bank and 240amp js alternator. Very musical and i can play down to 18hz if i watch my power.
My brother bought one of these 18's in the skar box. It sounded great for 3 minutes bedore filling the car with smoke and dying. He has an rp1500 and it absolutely slayed that sub. The wattage ratings listed are to be taken seriously. I figured it would handle more than listed but nope. If you're not running more power than the 600 watts listed it'll sound great.
My 10inch behind the seat sub box suffered when I seat belted in the sundown ev2 12 in the passenger seat ...... hook up some LEDs to the unused speaker terminals and you'll get a free light show
I'd honestly like to see what it takes to blow it musically. I see vids of people blowing subs with pure burst or overpowering. Id like to see music runs at or around its rms to see if it holds true to its power in the long run. I think like amp dynos that could give people a good idea of what they get for their cash. Great vid man definitely look forward to more. I wish i had a setup to do sruff like this!
I’ve got mine in a sealed box and was clamping anywhere from 100-900 watts in music. ran it for hours. pulled it out of the box a few times to check for heat and thermals were great. IMO, insane woofer for price.
Sometime in the late 90s, the only competition I ever did was in a 94 Sundance. I ran two MTX Road Thunder Pro 12" subs in a custom built (by me) box, and a Thunder 2300 amp. Measured at the windshield with doors closed, windows up, I did 143.4dB at 35Hz on a 30 second burp. To this day, I still use those subs (now one sub per enclosure) in my home theater being driven by a Crown DC-300A Series 2.
Brother i just gotta say you have one of the funnest hobby's. I remember i use to always buy different amps and subs and would only get to test them out in my house on a power supply. You get all these new toys and get to test them out in your SUV and on your work bench LOl must be lots of fun for reals!!
Havent had ANY issues with Skars stuff! Used within spec.. last years! One thing i've loved about them is all SDR sub lines, are very musical! Crazy to see this did a 144db burst!!
I bought one of the SDR10s with the box for like $125 for my Corolla, and it's plenty enough for the car. I love watching peoples big builds with massive power, but for a simple build with no major power upgrades it bumps! I had originally bought their EVL10 combo, but returned it because it was too much.
I have a carolla as well. Two Skar VXF 12s, on an Orion HCCA SPLX 3k. I hope to add a few more 12s in the future, or try two of these 18s. I think the carolla AKA "The Carolla Virus" would sound pretty good! (If you're into SPL)
I have an SDR10 in a sealed 0.95 net cube box on a Sundown SFD600D and it's honestly so much more musical than I expected. It will handle the bass just fine until I gather the cash for focal speakers all around.
I have 5 planet audio 18s in a half ported an halfway sealed running at .87654826 ohms. . Pushing them with a sound stream 20K stock electrical. . . . Shit kills me when someone is telling there shit and someone always has to come and out do you times 10. And if you really do have all that in a Corolla. That's dumb. 1 of will have more output then ur 2. AMD do you have dual 300 amp alts with at least 2 XS batteries. . Why have 2 competition subs if u not competing. You dont have the room or box or electrical to get 100,% out of ur setup.. take. .1 seal off that hole from the other sub. Or build new box for 4.3 cubic foot box. After bracing and sub. It be 3.5 put it on 3I clean signal. No tramps... skars SvK brand amp or sundown salt. Something efficient.. I'm promising u it will be way louder
@@Corruptedd no trolling. Just stating the obvious. Stupid stuff. Like comments that are left to ether degrade the person/,comment at hand or try to be the center of attention in someone else story. If you go back I'm sure you will see what I'm talking if you look... Fyi. I dont have a Corolla with any of that I said .... much love to guy with the original post that we are all commenting under. .... I did however have a single 12 EVl in the box on a RP1200.1 with dual SkyHigh OFC 0AWG power an ground. With Epicenter. An Boss elite 10.1inch headunit on stock electrical in a 14 impala trunk 3/4 sound deadened . And I can safely say that you will not find something louder prefab . I'm talking comes from manufacturer sub an box in that brands sub an box ordered and shipped by manufacturer.. for a single sub under 200 bucks. Or double that price range and it still is not possible. I firmly believe in building your system by getting the most out of the application. Not buying tmac sub with the biggest magnet or fattest surround but choosing a sub is 4th most important part not 1st. If you tell me u have two vxfs in a Corolla and we are talking daily regular use im gona tell you 1 of 2 ..1 you dono lick about car audio and someone probably got over on u or 2 your just full of **** And like to sound good
I had an SDR12 in a Skar single sub enclosure but wound up replacing it with an SVR12 within a couple of months. I caught it on sale and got it for just $25 more than the SDR and was a lot happier with it. A bit smoother and hit lower. I have no experience at all with a Skar 15 or 18 so can't say the same holds true in those models. The SDR was good but if you have the cash it might be worth moving up a tier or two. Then again, you're always going to want to upgrade no matter what you're running.
Thanks for the review I have had my eye on this prefab setup for quite a while. 600 watts seems barely enough to push an 18 very hard and your tests prove that. I have no interest in seeing you "send it" as they say, but I AM interested in more of a long term test with say 1.5-2x rated RMS to see how it holds up with music. Whatever you have time to film for us will be greatly appreciated big D you da MAN
The sdr line up is horrible with over powering them for a long period of time. Had the loaded sdr10 package once and smoked the sub in a month. Was only on the 800.1 too
I think these are more for the lower power set ups, for people not planning to upgrade alternator and go full out. These have been on sale awhile, i'm surprised they arent sold out yet- they will be now!
@@jimbobdobbs1597 theyre on sale because everyone knows to avoid the sdr series. Yeah, they do beat for what they are tho i will say that. On the other hand the little gothics from walmart are WAY better, get lower, and actually take over rms rating
@@Sheenoobie That’s strange. I have an SDR-10 on an RP1200.1D and I’ve been banging around for a month without issues. What did you have yours wired at if you don’t mind me asking?
kind of late reply but ive owned 4 of these sdr 18s i built a box for 2 first i threw 1500 at them and 2 years later of dailying it no problems but then i bought 2 more i was gonna build a box for 4 but then on a 100 degree day i blew them to ba fair i didnt break them in
Looks like skar stepped their game up with shipping. I purchased their dual 12" enclosure and the corner was damaged. It is a good deal, that setup and an amp n your thumpin. The low fs on that sub is nuts
@@wal 4 on a big boy amp would be a fun lroject for sure! Otherwise I honestly wouldn't mind to see where skars 18 fails, and bro, a 144.5 from one sub in that massive cabin is not bad, not bad at all for the $. Another excellent video, keep em coming brotha
I picked up a kit from Skar about 7/8 months ago, Skar SDR 15 in a ported box just like that one with an 800w mono amp, d2 ohm, and the wiring kit for about 330 on amazon. Honestly a steal and super happy with it. It barely fits in my trunk - had to take out the spare but totally worth lol.
If you end up smoking that sub, I have a small channel doing speaker repair/recone, even if there isn't a kitt for it, it can be done, just send it to me, ill redo it for some content, may take me a few weeks to get it done, but I will.. Your channel inspired mine, I don't mind helping if I can.
Been thinking about a couple of these myself for home use. Dual 2ohm coils, pull the sub wire for series 4ohm load. Great value" two of those bad boys Big D in your living room is going to be a thunderous event..👍
Made my own box sealed 2 X 18" SKAR and daaaaaaaaaaam they are a ton of booooom for your buck. Setting in my town cars trunk. They do not handle a lot of power though. The coil will unravel on you.
Pretty impressive that the sub in this enclosure doesn't suffer much from impedance rise. However, around the 4:30 mark I noticed it hit 0.2 ohms a few times. Was the voice coil bottoming or scraping causing a short?
Just ordered 2 to add to my garage stereo👍perfect timing on your video I have been checking this sub out for the last couple weeks. Can’t wait to get them hooked up and see how they rock!!
Hasn’t changed much since this vid. I want an ultra short throw projo, but haven’t taken the dive yet… Budget Home Theater with Projector 12 foot Screen Size! ruclips.net/video/qjgJpc7xfUI/видео.html
I’d love to see the evl series and what they can handle. I picked up an evl 18 about a month ago and I want to see how much I can push it past rms ratings but don’t want to actually pop it lol.
Someone gave my stepson one of these, in dual 4 ohm. It wasn't working, turned out that one of the coils was dead. Wired the other coil by itself on a small Kicker amp that he had gotten cheap. For a nearly free setup, it sounded respectable.
Definitely cool to see. Doing more tests like these would be cool to see. Pretty cool to get 143 with burps on a single 18. Not bad for 1 18 and it's pretty cheap. Cool video 💯💯
I picked up the Skar 8" SDR in the prefab ported box for the back of my Lexus. Box with the sub already in it was only $98. It's got plenty of bump for what it is, sounds bigger than what it is as well. Have a Skar 350.1D powering it so RMS is pretty matched between the two. Hard to beat the value of the Skar stuff.
@@getit7107 I'm more of a veteran of bass. These days, for me it wasn't about cracking pavement, it was about replacing the horrible factory "sub" in my Lexus ES with something that had enough power to round out the bottom end of the soundstage, provide some depth and punch, but not be overbearing. That 350W RMS/700 peak 8" sub in the ported box is more than enough to do that. When I was younger, at one time I had an 18" JL Audio 18W6 and five 10W3's in a Ford Ranger in custom enclosures, all powered by first-gen JL class-D amps. In retrospect, that was insane. Being older now, I wanted something more mature in my Lexus that I could hear/feel that also didn't eat up much trunk space and wouldn't piss off the neighbors or draw too much attention when stopped at red lights. It's basically the factory sub output connector fed to a Metra harness, leading to a NVX active LOC with the smart on/off input sensing, feeding the main output into a Skar monoblock, pushing to the Skar 8" sub. For electrical I went overkill and did a 900 CCA AGM conversion for the starter battery, 4 AWG and a 95 amp fuse fed to the trunk to a distribution block, then a small 400 CCA AGM with an 80 amp fuse in the trunk backed into the same distribution block, then block-to-amp I fused with a 35 amp AGC. The Skar manual says 30 amps, but doing the math I knew that 30 was on the conservative side, 35 matches up closer to the real consumption at max output. I don't have to worry about flickering lights, Plus if I ever want to add a second 350W amp or power additional shit, I don't have to go back and re-do anything to what I already did.
My brother has one in the back of his 05 Equinox. It flexes the hell of out his roof panel and you can still feel it pretty good all the way in the house when he's parked all the way in the back of our yard, about 140 feet away inside the house!
Curious to see how this does in the home theater set up. I have a pair of Stereo Integrity 15HTs in sealed boxes for my HT and curious if these would be an upgrade
@@darrintriplett6265 Very true. I've had 2 SDR18'S and now have 2 Stereo Integrity HT18V3'S ($199ea). There is definitely a $70 difference. SI bigger motor, better rubber surround, much lower FS. While I did like the way the SDR18'S sounded the HT18V3'S are a world of difference better and should last longer. I'm speaking from a SQ perspective, shear SPL output the Skars would win. Low, low frequency extension, the SI's are killing it.
I just built a system for my expedition with this 18” sub and a Skar 2000.1 in this box. It is miserable inside the suv it hits so hard. I had a total of $700 in cheap head unit and this setup and impressed everyone that hears it. Definitely great if you want a cheap system that will impress your friends. Oh and the $69 7” screen Chinese head unit also had a backup camera.
Hi! I built one of these a 3cft sealed box a few months back as a placeholder sub for my truck while I searched for a new substage (water leak killed my box for 7 year old 2 10s) It now sits in my living room. Only on about 50 watts now. decent low end extension. 30-31hz rolloff. Alright for home theater. Would do better if tuned LOW and ported, but I cannot give up 6cft in my living room haha
@@jimbobdobbs1597 It’s currently in the corner :) I am really proud of how tight the sealed box’s joints are. I have a second, untouched SDR18 gor which I’ll likely build a massive box and tune around 25. Cheap sub, might as well experiment. Too proud to alter the sealed box tho ;) And yeah, those Klipsch have a killer look, I agree
Awesome tests ! I’m glad you picked up the prefab along with it ! Perfect to show the guys what they are getting into out of the box 📦 For the price .. you can’t pass this up
Hey heard you say you were worried about shipping with the speaker mounted. Glad to say the motors are braced and all screws are hex heads with threads. The speaker could never hop out and run away!👍
Looking forward to the spl test on a pair of these. Definitely not an option for smaller vehicles but if you have the room this will more than fill in that output craving for bass.
I had that speaker. I blew it in a week with the ignite amp you reviewed. Great sub but you have to be careful how much power you put into it. I find it to be a very efficient box. I upgraded the the evl 15 in the skar box. It has not blown. I wish skar sold the evl 18 in its own box. Skar warrantied the speaker, and thats how I upgrade to the evl.
Sounds like good customer service. They shouldn't warranty it if you feed it more than the rated power but if they did that's going above and beyond. That's the kind if thing that builds customer loyalty.
I set my gains lower than I should. If I match it certain notes sound like crap so I run a touch low. These speakers smell like burnt plastic if you run them loud for a long time. The EVLs have lasted almost 2 years with constant use in the same scenario as the sdrs. I highly recommend the evls. They wont blow unless you bottom out the cone. The sdrs eventually get too hot if you plan to bump all the time. Now that's its illegal to drive with bass I wonder what its gonna do to the car audio industry.
@@ChannelZeroOne Makes sense to me. With only a 600w RMS rating yea they only have so much voice coil mass to absorb and dissipate the heat. I'm using the SDR because nothing bigger fits in the uniquely shaped box I'm using. Lookup the EV Eliminator I Sub, I have a pair of the older generation ones, you'll see what I mean. What do you mean loud bass has been banned? Where?
@@dlcarburetor To make this speaker last pay attention to the smell. If it the plastic smell gets strong you need to let it chill for bit. Florida has a music ban with vague enforcement details guaranteed to get abused. 25 ft and clearly heard. My cell phone speaker can be clearly heard at only 25ft. One of the western counties sheriff made it know on their FB page they plan to strictly enforce it. I posted a link to the actual law for Big d to look into since he is so good and making vids. Hopefully he does.
Great video👍🏼- skar is a good,budget minded brand. I use kicker cvrs, but have an extra skar box with sdr dual4ohm 10s for 1 ohm amps& back up. Their boxes look nice and good for the $$$, if you can't afford gately.( Got my purple jp amp, lots of head room;)
The low power handling and cheap subwoofer, are actually advantages. Makes learning and mistakes cheaper, as well as those of us that might just want something cheap but decent quality. Yes the box is thin, but does seems to be quality. It didn't blow out on the power hits, even when exceeding the power limit. Like you said in the Skar 1200W Amp vid, cheaper is good to get more people and younger people into the hobby. I build and run RC Cars in my hobby, we have everything from dedicated race cars, to $100.00 (and cheaper) toys, you have to cater to everyone if you want to maximize profit. Skar might the Sparkomatic of modern audio, but it's a niche that must be filled to round out the hobby
@@MickeyMishra, yeah i been around a long time, they had a 2 way 6x9 what would produce decent bass for a cheap speaker, but only lived like 6 months to a year under a bass load, everything else was garbage, Skar on the other hand is decent quality but at a fairly cheap price, from what I've seen. I forgot many of the other cheap names, so might have unknowingly insulted them
NICE review...18" sub/box for under $300. Skar Audio also uses CCAW coils in some of their subs. However, I have found they don't sound as good. I am one of those "critics" you speak of for NOT using ferrules (or at least tinned) amplifier input power cables. They are so cheap to buy and are safer...tighter wire compression, tighter bite down of those Allen head set screws. I can sponsor you a box of them...
I have them bud but they get stuck, that's why I don't use them for situations when I'm connecting/disconnecting but for permanent installs, absolutely!
tape big d TAPE...BLACK ELECTRIC TAPE..FOR A FEW SECONDS YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF A BLOWN AMP AND ALOT OF KICKING YOURSELF!!❤😂I EMERGENCIES I DO SHIT WIRES, BUT I ALWAYS WRAP IN ELECTRIC TAPE..RED + , black -
I can't say for everyone but I setup 2 skar sk8d2 in my son's Honda in a custom built box. Strapped to 2 audiopipe apcle 2ks at 2 oms. With a pioneer 4 volt output head unit. Using my oscope to set gain at 36hz 4k watts. Never clipped them. He ran them for over a year before I built my custom built 15 using lob and others to complete it. Which we put the same amps on for testing. Skar products when setup properly can take real rms ratings easily. I put 3 evl 15d2 and 8 vvx8d2 in my tundra with 3 sets of skar tx65 and 1 tx525 for mids and highs. Setup on 14.8k rms using taramps amps and a old Rockford I had on the shelf. Everyone who heard either vehicle could not believe what or how they sounded. For any budget basshead it's hard to beat skar. Anyone who wants to see old blue with the subs I mentioned can go to Tuscan alternator reviews and check out the pic. Ol blue is being torn down for rebuild right now. Just not loud enough for me. Going with all skar zvx next with around 45k rms. Taramps amps still. It took me a year to custom build the brackets to add 2 more alternators. So I have to say thanks to big d. Honest reviews. No bs. To anyone looking to add bass to any vehicle all I can say is buy what you can and play around. I've built so many different systems for friends using so many cheap brands. You can make anything sound good if you try. Just do what you like. It's your ride.
More than doubled input power with an increase of only 1dB SPL means you are well beyond linear operation, with a fully saturated voice coil and/or Xmax limiting. It would be much more relevant to find out at what input power it becomes non-linear. The THD in these ‘thrill’ tests is almost certainly near 100%, with grotesque levels of IM added to that. Isn’t the point of all this to reproduce music?
Settle down Francis...While you're mostly correct, you're kind of missing the point. A kid who's 17, got paid and has $300 to kill and just wants to bump his favorite music with his friends. This will put a wide ass grin on his face and good times will ensue for the Summer.
your on the wrong channel....most of the distrtion heard is the phone mic getting killed! if you were there personally it would sound quite clean ...linearity is not a measure of absolute distortion...audiophile vid channels are plentiful.....furthermore, the reality of audiophile is way overated, thd is freq. wieghted not oinear computer rated...mcintosh tubes on reference speakers are usually 1-5% thd, but still "undectectable", study human hearing perception dissertations / vacuume tubes/ square wave impulse voltage ratios....
I added this to my home theater and I’m never going back…I’m just using my infinity home audio subwoofer amp… not even 150w and my whole house shacks when we are watching a movie… best decision ever
i actually just picked up their 2 12" packagae rms 1200 and its crazy how much better the sound quality is with these compared to the last 12" bass package i had
$127 for an 18” subwoofer isn’t too bad. Using 2 or 4 of these subs in an infinite baffle placed in your basement or attic powered by a Crown amplifier would shake the gutters off of your house
I just finished installing a pair of these, SDR-18 D4. Re-tuned an old pair of EV PA sub boxes to 35Hz. Have one sub per cabinet, wired to 2 ohms. Powering them from an older QSC PLX1602 amplifier. I'm pretty impressed, especially for the money. These are my first Skar subwoofers. The build quality looks good. Time will tell how reliable they are. PA style subwoofers that would have fit my boxes were 3x the cost. Even if I blow them I can't complain, I'm feeding them over the rated RMS.
@@dlcarburetor because I know that PA speakers are made different then car audio speaker boxes and there generally made way smaller and tuned alot higher then car audio boxes are and I've been doing this 18yrs so I've come across people trying this before
@@SheikhN-bible-syndrome I think you are right in many cases. In this case I used WinISD to assess the theoretical performance before choosing this subwoofer. The projected performance was good considering the price. The next option was a PA driver from PRV but it was not only 3x the cost but on backorder. I suggest taking this occurance as something new learned and move one. A drivers TS parameters matter much more than its market advertised purpose.
I love skar audio, they’re cheap and worth. Back in 2020 I bought my self a Skar Audio Single 10" Complete 1, 200 Watt Sdr Series Subwoofer Bass Package. The thing came in with : x1 Skar Audio SDR-1X10D2 10-inch Loaded Subwoofer Enclosure x1 Skar Audio RP-800.1D Class D Monoblock Subwoofer Amplifier x1 Skar Audio SKAR4ANL-CCA 4 Gauge Amplifier Wiring Kit Besides of the amp heating up pretty bad (which I fixed adding two cooler fans) it’s a really nice set up for my little hatch back Audi A3! Can’t complain far all. Paid U$330 at that time, I’m still punching it around, love it! Thanks for this review my man! Keep the hard work going.
Great vid Big D! I remember back in the day(90's), you were the king if you could do a 140 SPL with multiple subs haha! Nowadays you can achieve that with just one!!
And that's why so many people like skar. Im team Skar myself. I've been brutally beating the same Skar VXF 15" subs for 3 years now and they just seem to keep getting louder. Have had them so hot that you couldn't even touch the motor from all day demos and didn't hurt them at all. Rated at 1500 rms and I'm putting over 2k to each of the 4 I have. Also doing 156db with a 6th order c pillar wall. I'm definitely happy with my budget Skar subs.
I have this in my bedroom on a crown macrotech amp. its stupid and I love it. ive thought about ordering like 16 to use as infrasubs for my PA at EDM shows might work well at the end you mentioned trying to blow it ive found that they dont like 8KW PA amps lol
I actually bought one of these off EBay and got it shipped to Canada for a steal of a deal! Used it for a little while and sold it for a bit of a profit!! Sounded good, just wanted to try an 18” out LMAO
built 18 inch twin horns and Selenium compression horns and quad amped at 1050w. Used two replacement Rockville 15' in my last project in old JBL enclosures with active x-overs and JBL copies of compression horns. R are absolutely fine.
I had three in my Altima 6th order b pillar wall, on a banda 7k and blew them almost immediately but reconed them with better high temp coils and was in the 150s on music , they were awesome
That 18” skar seems like an excellent buy. Especially since the enclosure is built to spec and tuned to 29hz. I’m considering purchasing one for my Yukon and replacing the 12” Fosgate T0 I had in there.
I bought a pair of shallow ILX 10s years ago on SMDs Christmas sale, for $35 each. Used one in a sealed wedge as my center woofer on my home stereo. The other I built a 1.25 cf ported box and used it in my f150. Beat the crap out of it. Still have them 6 years later. People need to appreciate stuff for what it is. Of course it isn't as nice as a JL 18. Its also 1/15th of the cost.
Cool, but honestly I expected higher numbers. The Kicker Quad did 150+ in that same vehicle. Four 12s versus this 18. While the 12s do have about 1.6X the cone area, they were 6+db louder, which is equivalent to about 4X the cone area. Power level close to the same too.
I have two of those twelves on the ignite amp you did a while back. Put one ten on a power acoustic 2500 at 1ohm in a expedition. At less than $200 bang for buck is an understatement.
I picked up the enclosure and 18 inch SDR sub in February for $182 delivered... it was a refurbished deal but I can't tell... I am putting 600rms to it & getting 135db 👍😎
Back in 1995 I was a junior in high school I bought a 93 S10 short bed regular cab so I didn't have much room. My grandpa had a wood working shop and I built several wedge boxes, tried several subs. Trying to get to where the bench seat would go all the way back to have plenty leg room. The round Kicker Solo Barics hadn't been out long. But as you know cubic foot needs to be close to the numbers. Had 12s and 10s different brands but tried 10" solos. With a correct size box and leg room and for the size and space was crazy! Clean and hard hitting but would drop way low for back then. Had a old school Auto Tek amp that was pretty good size and plenty of power. I can't remember the model but was badass back then! Car audio back then was way more expensive than now.
@@wal thanks for replying back! That skar 18" for that price is a steal! And while nothing is a giant magnet and not huge watt rated still nice. I'm curious to know about the skar amp you used? Like average price and what model it is? If you don't mind!
For people who can build their own box, care about sound quality AND the SPL, I recommend looking into the Dayton Audio UM18-22. It's objectively a better driver and possibly more efficient as well... a customer's car did 145+dB on music with a single UM18-22 in a custom box I built him (around 4.5cu.ft net tuned to 26-27Hz) and a 1500W DD Audio amp. Of course the Skar could've scored higher in a custom box, but it doesn't make a better driver. I'm in Norway, but I'm sure Parts Express will help you out with an Ultimax for testing, Derek 😁
When u get a second one of these face them opposite of each other and have the cones facing each other wire one 180 out of phase and have the ports firing beside each of the boxes see if u can gain anything from almost trying to isobaric load it, I think it would be interesting to see what it does
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Definitely an spl test in the Toyota with both. 🤟🏻🤟🏻
Driver Door open- sub at an angle pointing towards the driver side taillight - 145+ 😊
Put a CT sounds tropo 18 and compare they are roughly the same just different colors but ct is supposed to be better it also cost more lmao
Jp83 preview on both
Would love to see the 2x12 sub for comparison, wich is worth the money more. Love these vids man, keep em comin!
Fun video! $127 shipped is a crazy deal for an 18in subwoofer for sure.
Yeah man I agree!
I remember the 18 inch volcano from back in the day. Was great ...
Yea everytime I get ready to buy audio stuff I try to go with a different brand but instead I just buy two from skar for the same price 😅
Does anyone think there are gains to be made by a custom box over the fairly predominant opinion that Skar prefabs leave dbs on the table.
@@jeffrobinson4841 skar prefabs really aren't that great in my experience
I've tried 4 different boxes on my vxf 12's D4
2skar prefabs. A qbomb box then just a regular sub box.. The armor series and then the regular box from skar which were 3.8CF
and it got so quiet spl hit the FLOOR
The original box I got that was made out of 3/8 MDF were better than the scar prefab boxes I got
I've disliked them both on SPL standards though I will say they sound great SQ wise
I'm currently housing a QBOMB XL series box
4.25 Cf and it's insanely loud
Just my 2 vxfs on a 3k put enough air pressure in the cabin to float a bag in the window. And that's firing into the trunk as well
The Skar: I'm 600 watts RMS
The amp: Well, here's 2113, so have fun with that.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's a great video and I hope there are more like this coming; the only thing missing here is a "what's inside?" section where we see what gauge speaker wire is inside the box, and whether the seams are sealed, polyfill added, etc. Thanks!
I'll show that in the follow-up vid as I thought it would be interesting to see as well
He pretty much did explain all of that in the end of the video if you payed attention
Big D you read my mind! I’d run 2 of these in my SUV and beat the house down! What an incredible value for the SPL!
I tell you what, I love my SKAR equipment. It's got a very very fair price for the product they make. I really like the pre-fab boxes they make. They look really good and you can even use them in the house if you want to. I can't find any fault in any of the SKAR products. I really want that SKAR 18 and box for my home theater also.
Based on several of your tests (amps and subs) I went ahead and picked up a Rockville DB11 + 10" sub/enclosure kit a couple weeks ago. Really really good price (under $200 for entire kit shipped), and it's perfect for my Jeep. Doesn't overpower my speakers, but gets plenty loud with no distortion, and adds great low-end. I can still hear it at 70mph with no top and doors. Thanks for testing all the stuff you do, and for being honest about it. You're like Project Farm for car audio.
Aaayyyy, shoutout project farm!
I do love Skar. I purchased the SDR Triple 8inch box paired with the RP1200 and it's crazy for what it is. Definitely blew me away and went behond my expectations!! Highly recommend
I've been eyeing that very setup for my daily. Mostly because it's compact and looks pretty cool. Considering 3 8's has the same cone area as 2 10's, it's no surprise they thump. Thanks for the feedback!
I had a skar 8 inch 900 watts it sounded awesome
Ive been pretty happy with my sdr's. i Have 4 18 sdr's in a flatwall in my bronco on a jp63 and 35ah lto bank and 240amp js alternator. Very musical and i can play down to 18hz if i watch my power.
That sounds dope and cost effective. If I did a wall then that's probably the direction I'd go in too.
Jeezus how many dbs are you pushing?
What amp or amps are you using
My brother bought one of these 18's in the skar box. It sounded great for 3 minutes bedore filling the car with smoke and dying. He has an rp1500 and it absolutely slayed that sub. The wattage ratings listed are to be taken seriously. I figured it would handle more than listed but nope. If you're not running more power than the 600 watts listed it'll sound great.
Seems fair to stick to the ratings
That poor lil JL sub in the sequoia, catching all that pressure 🥺….🤣
Hey man that’s my Stealthbox and yeah she prob don’t like that 😂
It was a passive radiator for a while. Lol
My 10inch behind the seat sub box suffered when I seat belted in the sundown ev2 12 in the passenger seat ...... hook up some LEDs to the unused speaker terminals and you'll get a free light show
So much pressure that it probably got turned into a passive radiator
Would like to see a video of it connected to your home theater!
Been running skar equipment for 4 years now. And I have never had an issue. Skar audio for budget builds!!
I don't do burps I'd much rather like to see it play a full bass mekanik song at rms.
Right I wanna see what kind of punishment it can take
I'd like to find a car that don't die at 17hz
I'd honestly like to see what it takes to blow it musically. I see vids of people blowing subs with pure burst or overpowering. Id like to see music runs at or around its rms to see if it holds true to its power in the long run. I think like amp dynos that could give people a good idea of what they get for their cash. Great vid man definitely look forward to more. I wish i had a setup to do sruff like this!
I’ve got mine in a sealed box and was clamping anywhere from 100-900 watts in music. ran it for hours. pulled it out of the box a few times to check for heat and thermals were great.
IMO, insane woofer for price.
I call this one THE BUDGET GO GETTER SUB COMBO 25hz yes it does that amazing.
👌😬👍
Sometime in the late 90s, the only competition I ever did was in a 94 Sundance. I ran two MTX Road Thunder Pro 12" subs in a custom built (by me) box, and a Thunder 2300 amp. Measured at the windshield with doors closed, windows up, I did 143.4dB at 35Hz on a 30 second burp. To this day, I still use those subs (now one sub per enclosure) in my home theater being driven by a Crown DC-300A Series 2.
I’d give anything to have my ‘91 Raspberry red Sundance back.
Nice! Have a 2300 being delivered tomorrow. I can't wait.
I have been very impressed with the performance for price from Skar.
Brother i just gotta say you have one of the funnest hobby's. I remember i use to always buy different amps and subs and would only get to test them out in my house on a power supply. You get all these new toys and get to test them out in your SUV and on your work bench LOl must be lots of fun for reals!!
Living the dream my friend!
PLEASE MOAR WOOFER/BOX REVIEWS!! THIS IS WHY I LOVE WATCHING PARKER !!! I'd love to see home theater info. That's a great idea to use these.
I love subs too and want to break up so many amp tests occasionally. Thanks for the feedback!
@@wal You are very welcome.
my little cousin has a 15" skar on a soundstream 6000.1 tarantula Amp. wired at 2 ohms, 1400 watts, it's surprisingly loud and sounds great
Havent had ANY issues with Skars stuff! Used within spec.. last years! One thing i've loved about them is all SDR sub lines, are very musical! Crazy to see this did a 144db burst!!
I bought one of the SDR10s with the box for like $125 for my Corolla, and it's plenty enough for the car. I love watching peoples big builds with massive power, but for a simple build with no major power upgrades it bumps! I had originally bought their EVL10 combo, but returned it because it was too much.
I have a carolla as well. Two Skar VXF 12s, on an Orion HCCA SPLX 3k. I hope to add a few more 12s in the future, or try two of these 18s. I think the carolla AKA "The Carolla Virus" would sound pretty good! (If you're into SPL)
I have an SDR10 in a sealed 0.95 net cube box on a Sundown SFD600D and it's honestly so much more musical than I expected. It will handle the bass just fine until I gather the cash for focal speakers all around.
I have 5 planet audio 18s in a half ported an halfway sealed running at .87654826 ohms. . Pushing them with a sound stream 20K stock electrical. . . . Shit kills me when someone is telling there shit and someone always has to come and out do you times 10. And if you really do have all that in a Corolla. That's dumb. 1 of will have more output then ur 2. AMD do you have dual 300 amp alts with at least 2 XS batteries. . Why have 2 competition subs if u not competing. You dont have the room or box or electrical to get 100,% out of ur setup.. take. .1 seal off that hole from the other sub. Or build new box for 4.3 cubic foot box. After bracing and sub. It be 3.5 put it on 3I clean signal. No tramps... skars SvK brand amp or sundown salt. Something efficient.. I'm promising u it will be way louder
@@williamfarmer9105 Can't tell if you're trolling or if you are just joking around, i got lost towards the 2nd half of ur comment lol
@@Corruptedd no trolling. Just stating the obvious. Stupid stuff. Like comments that are left to ether degrade the person/,comment at hand or try to be the center of attention in someone else story. If you go back I'm sure you will see what I'm talking if you look... Fyi. I dont have a Corolla with any of that I said .... much love to guy with the original post that we are all commenting under. .... I did however have a single 12 EVl in the box on a RP1200.1 with dual SkyHigh OFC 0AWG power an ground. With Epicenter. An Boss elite 10.1inch headunit on stock electrical in a 14 impala trunk 3/4 sound deadened . And I can safely say that you will not find something louder prefab . I'm talking comes from manufacturer sub an box in that brands sub an box ordered and shipped by manufacturer.. for a single sub under 200 bucks. Or double that price range and it still is not possible. I firmly believe in building your system by getting the most out of the application. Not buying tmac sub with the biggest magnet or fattest surround but choosing a sub is 4th most important part not 1st. If you tell me u have two vxfs in a Corolla and we are talking daily regular use im gona tell you 1 of 2 ..1 you dono lick about car audio and someone probably got over on u or 2 your just full of **** And like to sound good
I had an SDR12 in a Skar single sub enclosure but wound up replacing it with an SVR12 within a couple of months. I caught it on sale and got it for just $25 more than the SDR and was a lot happier with it. A bit smoother and hit lower. I have no experience at all with a Skar 15 or 18 so can't say the same holds true in those models. The SDR was good but if you have the cash it might be worth moving up a tier or two.
Then again, you're always going to want to upgrade no matter what you're running.
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Did the same and picked up the SVR pretty much right when it dropped and still run it to this day.
Thanks for the review I have had my eye on this prefab setup for quite a while. 600 watts seems barely enough to push an 18 very hard and your tests prove that. I have no interest in seeing you "send it" as they say, but I AM interested in more of a long term test with say 1.5-2x rated RMS to see how it holds up with music. Whatever you have time to film for us will be greatly appreciated big D you da MAN
The sdr line up is horrible with over powering them for a long period of time. Had the loaded sdr10 package once and smoked the sub in a month. Was only on the 800.1 too
I think these are more for the lower power set ups, for people not planning to upgrade alternator and go full out. These have been on sale awhile, i'm surprised they arent sold out yet- they will be now!
@@jimbobdobbs1597 theyre on sale because everyone knows to avoid the sdr series. Yeah, they do beat for what they are tho i will say that. On the other hand the little gothics from walmart are WAY better, get lower, and actually take over rms rating
@@Sheenoobie That’s strange. I have an SDR-10 on an RP1200.1D and I’ve been banging around for a month without issues. What did you have yours wired at if you don’t mind me asking?
kind of late reply but ive owned 4 of these sdr 18s i built a box for 2 first i threw 1500 at them and 2 years later of dailying it no problems but then i bought 2 more i was gonna build a box for 4 but then on a 100 degree day i blew them to ba fair i didnt break them in
Looks like skar stepped their game up with shipping. I purchased their dual 12" enclosure and the corner was damaged. It is a good deal, that setup and an amp n your thumpin. The low fs on that sub is nuts
Yeah I’m rather shocked at the deal here. I bet two of these is gonna slam in the Sequoia! Maybe I’ll get 4?? 😬
@@wal 4 on a big boy amp would be a fun lroject for sure! Otherwise I honestly wouldn't mind to see where skars 18 fails, and bro, a 144.5 from one sub in that massive cabin is not bad, not bad at all for the $. Another excellent video, keep em coming brotha
I picked up a kit from Skar about 7/8 months ago, Skar SDR 15 in a ported box just like that one with an 800w mono amp, d2 ohm, and the wiring kit for about 330 on amazon. Honestly a steal and super happy with it. It barely fits in my trunk - had to take out the spare but totally worth lol.
If you end up smoking that sub, I have a small channel doing speaker repair/recone, even if there isn't a kitt for it, it can be done, just send it to me, ill redo it for some content, may take me a few weeks to get it done, but I will..
Your channel inspired mine, I don't mind helping if I can.
noice!! where?what?
KICKER SOLO BARIC!!! 90s car audio for the win!!!
Been thinking about a couple of these myself for home use. Dual 2ohm coils, pull the sub wire for series 4ohm load. Great value" two of those bad boys Big D in your living room is going to be a thunderous event..👍
Did you ever set these up in your home?
Made my own box sealed 2 X 18" SKAR and daaaaaaaaaaam they are a ton of booooom for your buck. Setting in my town cars trunk. They do not handle a lot of power though. The coil will unravel on you.
Were you ever into M.C. A.D.E. ? They had some good bass tracks in the late 80s early 90s.
Oh yeah
Love some MC ADE!
Pretty impressive that the sub in this enclosure doesn't suffer much from impedance rise. However, around the 4:30 mark I noticed it hit 0.2 ohms a few times. Was the voice coil bottoming or scraping causing a short?
I am thinking that the meter is getting fooled by back EMF or something.
Using every short cut possible, techie since 1971. Built about 500 systems. Diy till I die
@@Only-Memories-In-The-End Oh yeah, we did that. And we also mounted PA horns in the back windows facing forward. yeah that was loud.
Just ordered 2 to add to my garage stereo👍perfect timing on your video I have been checking this sub out for the last couple weeks. Can’t wait to get them hooked up and see how they rock!!
I'd like to see the home theater setup when ya get these installed!!
Hasn’t changed much since this vid. I want an ultra short throw projo, but haven’t taken the dive yet…
Budget Home Theater with Projector 12 foot Screen Size!
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Bought it a year ago, love it. Plays low and clean.
Could you do something with with the Skar EVL loaded enclosures, like a 10” or a 12”?
Thanks for the suggestion!
I love mine. Hooked to a Wolfram 2400 it's Lit 🔥.... 💚 The combo
I have an EVL 10 with the Skar bedlined box and for a single 10 this thing will get down! Not a fan of the 12 or 15 but the 10s and 8s are money.
I’d love to see the evl series and what they can handle. I picked up an evl 18 about a month ago and I want to see how much I can push it past rms ratings but don’t want to actually pop it lol.
I have the Skar dual evl 15 loaded enclosure set and they’re monsters. I’ve been frying so many tweeters just trying to keep up with them.
Someone gave my stepson one of these, in dual 4 ohm. It wasn't working, turned out that one of the coils was dead.
Wired the other coil by itself on a small Kicker amp that he had gotten cheap. For a nearly free setup, it sounded respectable.
Definitely cool to see. Doing more tests like these would be cool to see. Pretty cool to get 143 with burps on a single 18. Not bad for 1 18 and it's pretty cheap. Cool video 💯💯
And might be able to gain a few more with placement and sound deadening
I picked up the Skar 8" SDR in the prefab ported box for the back of my Lexus. Box with the sub already in it was only $98. It's got plenty of bump for what it is, sounds bigger than what it is as well. Have a Skar 350.1D powering it so RMS is pretty matched between the two. Hard to beat the value of the Skar stuff.
Must be new to bass only an 8"? Probably could have got an Audiopipe bd2 12 for the same price.
@@getit7107 I mean if it suits their needs no need to go bigger. My 10” does fine for me, no need to waste time going to a 12.
@@getit7107 I'm more of a veteran of bass. These days, for me it wasn't about cracking pavement, it was about replacing the horrible factory "sub" in my Lexus ES with something that had enough power to round out the bottom end of the soundstage, provide some depth and punch, but not be overbearing. That 350W RMS/700 peak 8" sub in the ported box is more than enough to do that.
When I was younger, at one time I had an 18" JL Audio 18W6 and five 10W3's in a Ford Ranger in custom enclosures, all powered by first-gen JL class-D amps. In retrospect, that was insane. Being older now, I wanted something more mature in my Lexus that I could hear/feel that also didn't eat up much trunk space and wouldn't piss off the neighbors or draw too much attention when stopped at red lights.
It's basically the factory sub output connector fed to a Metra harness, leading to a NVX active LOC with the smart on/off input sensing, feeding the main output into a Skar monoblock, pushing to the Skar 8" sub. For electrical I went overkill and did a 900 CCA AGM conversion for the starter battery, 4 AWG and a 95 amp fuse fed to the trunk to a distribution block, then a small 400 CCA AGM with an 80 amp fuse in the trunk backed into the same distribution block, then block-to-amp I fused with a 35 amp AGC. The Skar manual says 30 amps, but doing the math I knew that 30 was on the conservative side, 35 matches up closer to the real consumption at max output. I don't have to worry about flickering lights, Plus if I ever want to add a second 350W amp or power additional shit, I don't have to go back and re-do anything to what I already did.
My brother has one in the back of his 05 Equinox. It flexes the hell of out his roof panel and you can still feel it pretty good all the way in the house when he's parked all the way in the back of our yard, about 140 feet away inside the house!
Yo!
For the price of that sub, nothing wrong with that :)
I always check your channel before I buy anything... thank you for your knowledge and sharing it with us, greatly appreciated
Curious to see how this does in the home theater set up. I have a pair of Stereo Integrity 15HTs in sealed boxes for my HT and curious if these would be an upgrade
Oh man those SI subs are amazing!!
These would be a downgrade for sure
@@stevehovorka6222 not true skar will amaze you
@@darrintriplett6265 Very true. I've had 2 SDR18'S and now have 2 Stereo Integrity HT18V3'S ($199ea). There is definitely a $70 difference. SI bigger motor, better rubber surround, much lower FS. While I did like the way the SDR18'S sounded the HT18V3'S are a world of difference better and should last longer. I'm speaking from a SQ perspective, shear SPL output the Skars would win. Low, low frequency extension, the SI's are killing it.
Same here rocking a stereo integrity ds4 18 had a ht18 it really didnt like the power from my phoenix gold xenon lol this is in a extended cab btw lol
I just built a system for my expedition with this 18” sub and a Skar 2000.1 in this box. It is miserable inside the suv it hits so hard. I had a total of $700 in cheap head unit and this setup and impressed everyone that hears it. Definitely great if you want a cheap system that will impress your friends. Oh and the $69 7” screen Chinese head unit also had a backup camera.
Im very interested in seeing how this and any other subs you test work in a home theater environment.
Hi! I built one of these a 3cft sealed box a few months back as a placeholder sub for my truck while I searched for a new substage (water leak killed my box for 7 year old 2 10s)
It now sits in my living room. Only on about 50 watts now. decent low end extension. 30-31hz rolloff. Alright for home theater. Would do better if tuned LOW and ported, but I cannot give up 6cft in my living room haha
@@jimbobdobbs1597 It’s currently in the corner :)
I am really proud of how tight the sealed box’s joints are. I have a second, untouched SDR18 gor which I’ll likely build a massive box and tune around 25. Cheap sub, might as well experiment.
Too proud to alter the sealed box tho ;)
And yeah, those Klipsch have a killer look, I agree
@@KidCoyle i went to amend a 2nd reply and ended up deleting both it looks like..hooray for legal weed in illinois!
Would love to see this in a home theater comparison with the Dayton audio ultimax 18
i think 2 18s in a sealed box for the win with a 4k Amp. would like to see the difference from sealed to ported
they are 600 watt rms so 2 of them on anything greater then a 1k amp are gonna blow them up, 4k watt ur asking to fry these and waste your time and $
@@Corruptedd power doesn't kill speakers, distortion does.
Awesome tests ! I’m glad you picked up the prefab along with it ! Perfect to show the guys what they are getting into out of the box 📦
For the price .. you can’t pass this up
Now to convince my wife we need one in the other car. Hmmmm.....
would love to see the same sub in a "custom" box. put some context to that debate.
i need 2 in mirrored pair!
Hey heard you say you were worried about shipping with the speaker mounted. Glad to say the motors are braced and all screws are hex heads with threads. The speaker could never hop out and run away!👍
Looking forward to the spl test on a pair of these. Definitely not an option for smaller vehicles but if you have the room this will more than fill in that output craving for bass.
That's crazy, given an extra 1100w and it only produced 1db more 🤯
Tells us it was at it’s limit at lower power
I had that speaker. I blew it in a week with the ignite amp you reviewed. Great sub but you have to be careful how much power you put into it. I find it to be a very efficient box.
I upgraded the the evl 15 in the skar box. It has not blown. I wish skar sold the evl 18 in its own box. Skar warrantied the speaker, and thats how I upgrade to the evl.
Sounds like good customer service. They shouldn't warranty it if you feed it more than the rated power but if they did that's going above and beyond. That's the kind if thing that builds customer loyalty.
I set my gains lower than I should. If I match it certain notes sound like crap so I run a touch low.
These speakers smell like burnt plastic if you run them loud for a long time. The EVLs have lasted almost 2 years with constant use in the same scenario as the sdrs. I highly recommend the evls. They wont blow unless you bottom out the cone. The sdrs eventually get too hot if you plan to bump all the time.
Now that's its illegal to drive with bass I wonder what its gonna do to the car audio industry.
@@ChannelZeroOne Makes sense to me. With only a 600w RMS rating yea they only have so much voice coil mass to absorb and dissipate the heat. I'm using the SDR because nothing bigger fits in the uniquely shaped box I'm using. Lookup the EV Eliminator I Sub, I have a pair of the older generation ones, you'll see what I mean.
What do you mean loud bass has been banned? Where?
@@dlcarburetor To make this speaker last pay attention to the smell. If it the plastic smell gets strong you need to let it chill for bit.
Florida has a music ban with vague enforcement details guaranteed to get abused. 25 ft and clearly heard. My cell phone speaker can be clearly heard at only 25ft.
One of the western counties sheriff made it know on their FB page they plan to strictly enforce it. I posted a link to the actual law for Big d to look into since he is so good and making vids. Hopefully he does.
You took out the slayer amp!! Kick ass!
Bully for him!
Great video👍🏼- skar is a good,budget minded brand. I use kicker cvrs, but have an extra skar box with sdr dual4ohm 10s for 1 ohm amps& back up. Their boxes look nice and good for the $$$, if you can't afford gately.( Got my purple jp amp, lots of head room;)
Sweet!
The low power handling and cheap subwoofer, are actually advantages. Makes learning and mistakes cheaper, as well as those of us that might just want something cheap but decent quality. Yes the box is thin, but does seems to be quality. It didn't blow out on the power hits, even when exceeding the power limit. Like you said in the Skar 1200W Amp vid, cheaper is good to get more people and younger people into the hobby. I build and run RC Cars in my hobby, we have everything from dedicated race cars, to $100.00 (and cheaper) toys, you have to cater to everyone if you want to maximize profit. Skar might the Sparkomatic of modern audio, but it's a niche that must be filled to round out the hobby
Great points 👌
Sparkomatic. Been a LONG time since I heard that name.
@@MickeyMishra, yeah i been around a long time, they had a 2 way 6x9 what would produce decent bass for a cheap speaker, but only lived like 6 months to a year under a bass load, everything else was garbage, Skar on the other hand is decent quality but at a fairly cheap price, from what I've seen. I forgot many of the other cheap names, so might have unknowingly insulted them
NICE review...18" sub/box for under $300. Skar Audio also uses CCAW coils in some of their subs. However, I have found they don't sound as good. I am one of those "critics" you speak of for NOT using ferrules (or at least tinned) amplifier input power cables. They are so cheap to buy and are safer...tighter wire compression, tighter bite down of those Allen head set screws. I can sponsor you a box of them...
I have them bud but they get stuck, that's why I don't use them for situations when I'm connecting/disconnecting but for permanent installs, absolutely!
tape big d TAPE...BLACK ELECTRIC TAPE..FOR A FEW SECONDS YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF A BLOWN AMP AND ALOT OF KICKING YOURSELF!!❤😂I EMERGENCIES I DO SHIT WIRES, BUT I ALWAYS WRAP IN ELECTRIC TAPE..RED + , black -
I can't say for everyone but I setup 2 skar sk8d2 in my son's Honda in a custom built box. Strapped to 2 audiopipe apcle 2ks at 2 oms. With a pioneer 4 volt output head unit. Using my oscope to set gain at 36hz 4k watts. Never clipped them. He ran them for over a year before I built my custom built 15 using lob and others to complete it. Which we put the same amps on for testing. Skar products when setup properly can take real rms ratings easily. I put 3 evl 15d2 and 8 vvx8d2 in my tundra with 3 sets of skar tx65 and 1 tx525 for mids and highs. Setup on 14.8k rms using taramps amps and a old Rockford I had on the shelf. Everyone who heard either vehicle could not believe what or how they sounded. For any budget basshead it's hard to beat skar. Anyone who wants to see old blue with the subs I mentioned can go to Tuscan alternator reviews and check out the pic. Ol blue is being torn down for rebuild right now. Just not loud enough for me. Going with all skar zvx next with around 45k rms. Taramps amps still. It took me a year to custom build the brackets to add 2 more alternators. So I have to say thanks to big d. Honest reviews. No bs. To anyone looking to add bass to any vehicle all I can say is buy what you can and play around. I've built so many different systems for friends using so many cheap brands. You can make anything sound good if you try. Just do what you like. It's your ride.
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More than doubled input power with an increase of only 1dB SPL means you are well beyond linear operation, with a fully saturated voice coil and/or Xmax limiting. It would be much more relevant to find out at what input power it becomes non-linear. The THD in these ‘thrill’ tests is almost certainly near 100%, with grotesque levels of IM added to that. Isn’t the point of all this to reproduce music?
Settle down Francis...While you're mostly correct, you're kind of missing the point. A kid who's 17, got paid and has $300 to kill and just wants to bump his favorite music with his friends. This will put a wide ass grin on his face and good times will ensue for the Summer.
your on the wrong channel....most of the distrtion heard is the phone mic getting killed! if you were there personally it would sound quite clean ...linearity is not a measure of absolute distortion...audiophile vid channels are plentiful.....furthermore, the reality of audiophile is way overated, thd is freq. wieghted not oinear computer rated...mcintosh tubes on reference speakers are usually 1-5% thd, but still "undectectable", study human hearing perception dissertations / vacuume tubes/ square wave impulse voltage ratios....
I added this to my home theater and I’m never going back…I’m just using my infinity home audio subwoofer amp… not even 150w and my whole house shacks when we are watching a movie… best decision ever
Love this!
Is this a mickey mouse program?
Great video Big D. Very fun to watch. Looking forward to seeing what else you can test out.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
i actually just picked up their 2 12" packagae rms 1200 and its crazy how much better the sound quality is with these compared to the last 12" bass package i had
$127 for an 18” subwoofer isn’t too bad. Using 2 or 4 of these subs in an infinite baffle placed in your basement or attic powered by a Crown amplifier would shake the gutters off of your house
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That is great!!! when you get done blowing it up you can ask your buddy Pat at robot underground rebuild it for you
Ha! Good one!
I love it people play their music loud it is a good industry for when they get a little bit older for hearing aids.
No matter what anyone says👉For the price Skar is the way to go IMO💯One of the few things left that seems like a good value in the bass world 👍
I once had a pair of 15’s and the box was massive!!
Dude, 5/8" MDF or not, that is crazy value for the money. With or without the box that is awesome performance for the dollar.
Fo sho
Last time I had an 18 inch subwoofer in my possession was a Hollywood lab
I just finished installing a pair of these, SDR-18 D4. Re-tuned an old pair of EV PA sub boxes to 35Hz. Have one sub per cabinet, wired to 2 ohms. Powering them from an older QSC PLX1602 amplifier. I'm pretty impressed, especially for the money. These are my first Skar subwoofers. The build quality looks good. Time will tell how reliable they are. PA style subwoofers that would have fit my boxes were 3x the cost. Even if I blow them I can't complain, I'm feeding them over the rated RMS.
That box is most likely way to small to work right at a tuning below the 40's so I'm sure the performance is choked badly
@@SheikhN-bible-syndrome You may be right but how can you make that assumption based on the information I provided?
@@dlcarburetor because I know that PA speakers are made different then car audio speaker boxes and there generally made way smaller and tuned alot higher then car audio boxes are and I've been doing this 18yrs so I've come across people trying this before
@@SheikhN-bible-syndrome I think you are right in many cases. In this case I used WinISD to assess the theoretical performance before choosing this subwoofer. The projected performance was good considering the price. The next option was a PA driver from PRV but it was not only 3x the cost but on backorder. I suggest taking this occurance as something new learned and move one. A drivers TS parameters matter much more than its market advertised purpose.
Perfect timing iv been thinking about this sub but couldn't find a review with an opinion I valued thank you very much I value ur opinion perfect time
I replaced my 10" fosgate dual core with a skar dual core. The bass is so much better. I love it
Would definitely like to see some tests with a second one of these! Very impressive numbers for a single budget sub in a box
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I love skar audio, they’re cheap and worth. Back in 2020 I bought my self a Skar Audio Single 10" Complete 1, 200 Watt Sdr Series Subwoofer Bass Package.
The thing came in with :
x1 Skar Audio SDR-1X10D2 10-inch Loaded Subwoofer Enclosure
x1 Skar Audio RP-800.1D Class D Monoblock Subwoofer Amplifier
x1 Skar Audio SKAR4ANL-CCA 4 Gauge Amplifier Wiring Kit
Besides of the amp heating up pretty bad (which I fixed adding two cooler fans) it’s a really nice set up for my little hatch back Audi A3! Can’t complain far all.
Paid U$330 at that time, I’m still punching it around, love it!
Thanks for this review my man! Keep the hard work going.
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Great vid Big D! I remember back in the day(90's), you were the king if you could do a 140 SPL with multiple subs haha! Nowadays you can achieve that with just one!!
And that's why so many people like skar. Im team Skar myself. I've been brutally beating the same Skar VXF 15" subs for 3 years now and they just seem to keep getting louder. Have had them so hot that you couldn't even touch the motor from all day demos and didn't hurt them at all. Rated at 1500 rms and I'm putting over 2k to each of the 4 I have. Also doing 156db with a 6th order c pillar wall. I'm definitely happy with my budget Skar subs.
I have this in my bedroom on a crown macrotech amp. its stupid and I love it.
ive thought about ordering like 16 to use as infrasubs for my PA at EDM shows
might work well
at the end you mentioned trying to blow it
ive found that they dont like 8KW PA amps lol
your idea is good....wire carefully and make sure EACH WOOFER STAYS UNDER 40 VOLTS!!!❤❤ sub cut off eq at 25hz
Honestly, not a bad power to performance and I'm pleasantly surprised! Looking at this for the possible upgrade to my new Dodge.
I actually bought one of these off EBay and got it shipped to Canada for a steal of a deal! Used it for a little while and sold it for a bit of a profit!! Sounded good, just wanted to try an 18” out LMAO
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I had a 15” Fosgate punch in my ‘86 Mustang GT in high school. It seemed really big, 18s are huge.
I had 8 RF Punch 15s walled up, and barely broke 140.... winning trophies... nowadays it can be done with a single 8"! Crazy
built 18 inch twin horns and Selenium compression horns and quad amped at 1050w. Used two replacement Rockville 15' in my last project in old JBL enclosures with active x-overs and JBL copies of compression horns. R are absolutely fine.
I had three in my Altima 6th order b pillar wall, on a banda 7k and blew them almost immediately but reconed them with better high temp coils and was in the 150s on music , they were awesome
Skar for the win!! Skar is bad ass...there amps are top notch and tons of raw power and clean base
In my opinion 18" subs are by far the most musical option. If you're going for sq there's no replacement.
That 18” skar seems like an excellent buy. Especially since the enclosure is built to spec and tuned to 29hz. I’m considering purchasing one for my Yukon and replacing the 12” Fosgate T0 I had in there.
It’s a pretty sick deal, just don’t over power it
I bought a pair of shallow ILX 10s years ago on SMDs Christmas sale, for $35 each. Used one in a sealed wedge as my center woofer on my home stereo. The other I built a 1.25 cf ported box and used it in my f150. Beat the crap out of it. Still have them 6 years later. People need to appreciate stuff for what it is. Of course it isn't as nice as a JL 18. Its also 1/15th of the cost.
1:04 looking like a low power huge box woofer, like u could go crazy making it big as a freezer and still need a larger box XD
It’s an 18, needs to breathe 😎
Cool, but honestly I expected higher numbers. The Kicker Quad did 150+ in that same vehicle. Four 12s versus this 18. While the 12s do have about 1.6X the cone area, they were 6+db louder, which is equivalent to about 4X the cone area. Power level close to the same too.
600 watt subwoofer
@@drrckhamilton Rate it what you want. BigD gave them both the same power for the burp.
but the price is 10x higher on the quad!!!!😢haaha! 10x $$$$ for only 6 db!!!
I can’t stress enough how much I love the “This is not a Mickey Mouse program” clip! Thank you 😊
Me too!
I have two of those twelves on the ignite amp you did a while back. Put one ten on a power acoustic 2500 at 1ohm in a expedition. At less than $200 bang for buck is an understatement.
I’ve got the same amp and one of the evl 15s and that shit hammers, way louder than the base model skar 12s I had
I picked up the enclosure and 18 inch SDR sub in February for $182 delivered... it was a refurbished deal but I can't tell... I am putting 600rms to it & getting 135db 👍😎
Back in 1995 I was a junior in high school I bought a 93 S10 short bed regular cab so I didn't have much room. My grandpa had a wood working shop and I built several wedge boxes, tried several subs. Trying to get to where the bench seat would go all the way back to have plenty leg room. The round Kicker Solo Barics hadn't been out long. But as you know cubic foot needs to be close to the numbers. Had 12s and 10s different brands but tried 10" solos. With a correct size box and leg room and for the size and space was crazy! Clean and hard hitting but would drop way low for back then. Had a old school Auto Tek amp that was pretty good size and plenty of power. I can't remember the model but was badass back then! Car audio back then was way more expensive than now.
Yessir! Crazy expensive back then
@@wal thanks for replying back! That skar 18" for that price is a steal! And while nothing is a giant magnet and not huge watt rated still nice. I'm curious to know about the skar amp you used? Like average price and what model it is? If you don't mind!
I had the EVl 18 in that same box in my Yukon and it wasn't bad for the money!
Really good in depth demo of setup! This brings out the basshead in me. Earned a sub there!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
That sensitivity is killing me ! If you think the 18's are large you should see my Electro Voice 30w speakers ! That's a big driver!
You got me with the "does it bump doe" lmao
For people who can build their own box, care about sound quality AND the SPL, I recommend looking into the Dayton Audio UM18-22. It's objectively a better driver and possibly more efficient as well... a customer's car did 145+dB on music with a single UM18-22 in a custom box I built him (around 4.5cu.ft net tuned to 26-27Hz) and a 1500W DD Audio amp. Of course the Skar could've scored higher in a custom box, but it doesn't make a better driver. I'm in Norway, but I'm sure Parts Express will help you out with an Ultimax for testing, Derek 😁
When u get a second one of these face them opposite of each other and have the cones facing each other wire one 180 out of phase and have the ports firing beside each of the boxes see if u can gain anything from almost trying to isobaric load it, I think it would be interesting to see what it does