Old vs. New Eclipse subs
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Topic: Old vs. New Eclipse subs
Posted By: sinistar
Subject: Old vs. New Eclipse subs
Date Posted: February 03, 2005 at 6:09 PM
I know there's a lot of Eclipse guru's out there so I figured I would ask them of all people. Whats the consensus on the older 88000, 8000 series Eclipse subs to the lower priced 7000 series subs that came out this year? Did they get cheaper on the material or just lower the price to attract some more people since almost every manufacturer is jabbin you. Most anyways. Sound, Quality, durability? All opinions welcome. thanks.
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Posted By: wheelerdr
Date Posted: February 04, 2005 at 8:53 PM
eclips is good quality no great but good
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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: February 04, 2005 at 11:27 PM
Personally, I think the 87000 series of woofers sounded better than the 88000 series. I have to disagree with wheelerdr though... the Eclipse gear IS great gear. Asfar as I can tell, the reliability is as good as ever, I think they really just lowered the price to compete a little more. The DO still have to make money to stay in business, after all.
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Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: February 05, 2005 at 12:19 AM
The 7000 series sub is smaller in comparison to its predecesor. But...I think eclipse has hit the nail head on this time...98 oz mags on the 7000 series 10's power handling of 400 rms. will take 1000 easy! 2 10's in a vented box tuned to 38 hz with 400 per sub hit 142db on the term lab. still great clarity for daily driving as well. you be the judge with that knoledge. I like mine
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Posted By: phuzun
Date Posted: February 05, 2005 at 8:14 AM
Eclipse has been the best sounding aftermarket speakers I've even owned. I've got Phoenix gold 5.0 ZR components, that are great, but expected more for midrange, when compared to the low end eclipse I've owned, and still use.
Posted By: sinistar
Date Posted: February 05, 2005 at 4:41 PM
jeffchilcott wrote:
The 7000 series sub is smaller in comparison to its predecesor. But...I think eclipse has hit the nail head on this time...98 oz mags on the 7000 series 10's power handling of 400 rms. will take 1000 easy! 2 10's in a vented box tuned to 38 hz with 400 per sub hit 142db on the term lab. still great clarity for daily driving as well. you be the judge with that knoledge. I like mine
142 would be awesome. Since I am going with the sealed enclosure, I do not plan on coming close to that, but high 130's would be great. I plan on putting about 500 RMS to each so I should be good there and my wheel well should easily be 2 cu ft, so I'm good there too. I also heard the magnet is smaller, but a better design for cooling the voice coils. So it should still be a super clean sound at a much better price. If I don't like them which i doubt is going to happen, I can always swap with something else. I'm not going for sound competitions, but a solid quality sound. thanks for the thoughts.
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