Budget 18s in gsub?

Just because you can't afford $1000 doesn't mean you have to spend $100.

Well to put this into perspective....

I thought the same thing about rockville.. Untill I did some homework on them, they do car audio gear and are pretty respected in car audio and car audio competitions. They factory make their stuff and sell factory direct so your looking at prices before retail. For example a place like parts express would be adding a large retail price ontop of what the factory direct cost would be, I would assume somewhere around 50%-60% of the cost is the real cost.

With that being said...

I took a risk and figured "why not" try their PA speakers? I had four kick bins loaded with old 450w 15s that I eventually killed, so for around $200 I got *Four 15 inch drivers that cover the hz band I wanted very nicely, they sound better then the drivers that used to be in here by a *long* shot and are the roughly the same power rating on paper. They seem to be able to handle the power I'm giving them as well that is around its RMS rating so I would call it accurate for the 15s I own at least.

Alternatively the cheapest/best thing I could get locally would be kappa's at around $150/ea meaning this would've cost me $600 for the same kick bins. Sure we can argue all day that the kappas are better, they obviously are, but for the hz band I'm using these rockvilles in the kick bins I have are loud as hell and keep up with my double 15 yorkville maxim 1000's that I've taken the old drivers out of and replaced with kappa 15's. Again granted the kappa 15's go 1khz higher, but for kick bins I don't need that since I'm cutting that out anyways, so for this situation the rockvilles are the better option since they are as loud in the hz band I'm using them for and are a 1/3d of the price for the same four drivers.

With that being said, this makes me think about their subwoofers. I have a pair of yorkville PR418's that I've loaded a pair of these rockville 18's into and they sound good to me, however the orginal drivers seems to sound better at higher hz 200-300hz cut off, while the rockville seemed to go lower then the 40hz orginal could. This makes me think they are not very well suited for woofers (like this cab is designed for) and would be better in a gsub design.

I'm open to other options tho, what should I be looking for? Obviously xmax doesn't tell the entire story or else everybody would be using car audio speakers with huge xmax rubber speaker surrounds instead of tight impact based surrounds like all PA speakers use.

You dont buy professional PA drivers on ebay. Find the distributor and you will get much better price.

Edited by MarjanM - 17 November 2017 at 12:54pm

You already have two of the drivers you're thinking of using so just build a Gsub, load them, see if it's good enough for you and if it is then buy four more, if it isn't just refit them for whichever drivers you decide to buy instead.

Hemisphere wrote: You already have two of the drivers you're thinking of using so just build a Gsub, load them, see if it's good enough for you and if it is then buy four more, if it isn't just refit them for whichever drivers you decide to buy instead.

Well thats the thing, I'm wondering if these drivers are better suited for something else like the ookpik sw-218/sb1000 type design.

How would I go about finding out what they are best suited for instead of just building a random case and hope'n for the best?

Why are you looking at USA sites?