Punishers, comparable to what??

My friend asked me to suggest/build him some new subs.  He's looking for something small, but with some good output.   To my mind came the Punishers.  The thing is I've never heard them, so I can't clearly tell them what they sound like or which other sub compares to them.  His intentions for now are to use them as singles or pairs per side.  I don't know if using them as singles or pairs will give a good impression (which is what he's looking for - To impress people with such little box).  What other horn could be compared to the punisher in terms of spl/freq response?  Cerwin Vega ?36????

Thanks

I think you will find the Punisher is very close in design to EAW LA400, except the 400 is a bit bigger / longer and will go a little lower.  It would probably be best with at least 2 a side.

The 1850 is probably a bit big but would offer a little more extension than the punisher.

If you need a lot of LF and don’t need to go that high then the X1 is probably the go, but it will sound like a BP.

I think you will find that the performance of the Punisher, 1850 and X1 is about as good as it gets given their various design compromises.

The other alternative is to put a couple of RCF 15P200’s in a small reflex enclosure of about 190L tuned to about 40hz

A single Punisher is very nice, but a stack of two becomes really impressive. When two Punisher couple together they extend a lot deeper. When you stack 4 together and power them with 4-6kW there is very little that can come close for that kind of output out of such a small box volume. Three things are important:

- Only use Ciare 12.00SW driver

- Build them as solid as possible and make sure there are no airleaks

- Power them with at least 1000W, more is better (1500W is nice)

Best regards,

Walt