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I will probably put it in a ported enclosure. I want to squeeze every ounce out of this because there is only one. It has been my experience that JL's SQ does not suffer that much when they are ported. My last setup had 3 JL 12 w3's and I miss it dearly. I purchased Infinity reference components for the front and coaxials for the rear doors so I can have a clean full sound. I am also going to strip my interior and lay brown bread sound dampner through the whole truck to seal the bass in tight.

I am trying to think of the best way to angle the sub. I am going to flip and fold up one of my seats and put the box behind it. There are 2 different ways I could do it. One is with the sub facing the roof of the cab and the other is with the sub facing the back of the cab. If I did it facing the back of the cab there would only be about 3-4 inches of space between the sub and the rear wall. If I did it facing towards the roof I could angle the sub to face towards the rear of the cab. Would there be any advantages/disadvantages to either configurations? What do you guys think?

I had the magnets fall off a pair of volfenhag... well the magnets and the whole motor structure just separated from the basket...   So I wouldn't use them in a serious setup.fiberglass reminds me of peanut brittle... but fiberglass tastes better!

I used to carry Volefnhag when I had my shop running, For an entry level product I liked them alot.   The protection curcuits would prevent people from re-wiring what I had done and blowing up the equipment.   The 4 channel amps are a little overrated but they are quite clean for a cheap price. The (high end subs) actually were very very loud and somewhat clean when powerd by a good amp. we did a drop in test with one volfenhag 12 vs 1 w6v2 with both in a custom box designed to spec, both of them on a old rockford 800.2 the volfenhag actually got over a full db louder, but was not as clean as the JL.   But for the normal listener they would not have noticed the diffrence. If I remember the boxes right both were around 1.8 cu ft tuned to 38 hz with a slot port.   The JL got lower and alot tighter response, so I would deam the volfenhag as a (rap) sub.     I didnt do any long term testing for myself, but I do know both setups are still running to this day, slightly 4 years after the install date, with all orignal equipment. As far as the kicker box goes, I cant remember the exact specs but I have been playing with it quite often and came out with 3.35-3.65 cu ft internal before displacement 2.25 x 13.25 x 24 slot port 1 kicker L7 now powered by 1 kicker kx1200.1 144.6db term lab at 41 hz     will remain very tight for music like NIN, and get very low for rap.   The box still prefers lower notes as I dont have the response completly level yet, but I might work on it some more soon I am really tempted to see what we can come up with with 2 subs in 2 boxes and 2 kx1200's 2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR

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Also, I noticed that JL's instruction manual says to use a slotted port. Is there a advantage by using this as opposed to cutting a hole out and using plastic pipe?

I have found that when using a slot port over a round port, there is less noise, espically over just a piece of round pipe.   and a much smother response. The only way to properly have a round port in my opionion is to use a percision port or sero port which have tapered ends.    besides that I only use slot ports2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR

2007 USACI World Champion

2007 World Record

2006 USACI Finals 2nd Place