Best Sub Under $175

Those two subs should pound sealed, and hit lower then a bandpass, go ported and make a compromise if ya want, but ported boxes are larger.

This reminds me of a story...  A short one, goes like this.  Once their was this guy from Alaska who came down to visit family in Kansas.  All the people down in Kansas had been shopping at Wal-mart for their "high-end" audio needs.  This boy from Alaska only buys wiring harnesses and sometimes a wiring kit from WallyLand, not subwoofers and amplifiers.  When they heard his one 10" HX2 Punch and JBL 1200.1 they had a 'hoe-down' for it was a glorious thing to behold: one small subwoofer and amp that could 'boom' like that.

Short of it is: if all his friends have been shopping at Walmart for audio, these subs should be quite impressive in any configuration.

Eh, if you have 2 woofers, why are you getting the DVC version??  That way, you can only get 1 ohm or 4 ohms, not 2 ohms.

hmmmm.....a enclosure that doubles as a seat.......have fun sitting there!!!

In that case, I'd go with a sealed box, down-fire, that'll do nicely.

As far as an amp, Sony amps are pretty much junk from what I've heard.  You can pickup an alpine MRD-M501 (550 watts RMS, a damn lot max if you wanna talk in BS numbers) for $250 inc. shipping on some websites (use froogle!!!!)  That'll actually put out 550 watts, actually more.

Good choice on subs thou.  I've got a Perfect 12.1D, and it's awsome.  I've got a friend that got 2 Pioneer 10's and is like "mine can hit harder than yours".....well, lets just say that it is louder....but it sounds like ****.....

the kid has no friends... no one will be sitting in the back anyways, its just incase he HAPPENS to stumble upon a reason to need seats in the back we knew the amp was crap but hes got a very tight budget at the moment and will eventually upgrade the entire system beacuse hes heard my brahma and knows what it can do even though i never turn it up very loud yeah we looked around froogle first but found the best deals on ebay so we just did it there.