Need your opinion on kicker L7

i got a solo baric L7 DVC 4 ohm and want to get the most out of the sub. Gonna buy a new amp and needed some help. i pretty much have my mine set on getting a Hifonics amp cuz i have heard alot of good news about them, unless someome can convince me otherwise. which should i get 1) BXI 606 600 watts rms x 1 channel 1 ohm. or 2) BXI 1206 900 watts rms x 1 channel 2 ohm. should i under power the sub or over power the sub? dont want to damage the sub or amp obviously

I guess it depends on which enclosure you are putting the L7 in. also what size L7? you will be better off buying a bigger amp, if you underpower that woofer you will have a good chance of blowing the woofer up., distortion is a big killer. I would say out of the amps listed use the BXI1206.

For sure the bigger of the 2 hifonics would work great, How big of a box can you fit?    

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its a 12" L7. right now i have a basic proted box thats about 2.52 cubic feet. im thinking of geting a custom box but not sure if it will make a big difference. any other amps out there that will be good for the L7. Thanks for the advice

Distortion isn't what kills speakers...have you ever heard of rock?? distortion pedals??? Exactly my point

azn, you're mixing up a couple of uses of the word "distortion".  In regards to a speaker, distortion generally applies to the sound of a badly clipped signal.  Any music source, even the purest violin, can be played with or without distortion.  Let's say you have a recorded guitar solo that has a multitude of distortion built into it.  That music can be played cleanly without any distortion whatsoever in the playback equipment.  It would sound just as the artist intended for it to sound - distorted as hell - but the sine waves are well within the bandwidth and aren't flattening off at the peaks.  That is no hardship for the speaker.  Just because the music is recorded distorted doesn't mean that the speakers playing it back are going to exhibit distortion.  But it can also be played back distorted as well...if the amp is clipping badly.  Distortion upon distortion, egads.

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Build the box so that it performs well in the worst case scenario and, in return, it will reward you at all times.

Ic...well my view of distortion is just different than...On my guitar amp I can turn the clean volume up high enough where the speaker sounds like its clipping and distortion but it never fails.

aznboi3644 wrote:

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Ic...well my view of distortion is just different than...On my guitar amp I can turn the clean volume up high enough where the speaker sounds like its clipping and distortion but it never fails.

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Thats obvious.

Did you take just a little time to read and UNDERSTAND stevdart post? Your rock pedal Distortion is not the same as what stevdart is trying to explain to you.

To answer your question...yes

aight you guys went way off topic. for my 12" L7 im gonna end up getting the hifonics bxi 1206d. should i run it at 1100 watts rms at 1 ihms or 900 watts rms at 2 ohms

You can only run at 2ohm because you have a dual 4ohm voice coil sub. Thus, in parallel will equal a 2ohm mono load. I'm only running 750 watts to my S12L7 and its seems to be  too much power.(Why I'm switching to the MTX 9500) So 900 should be more than sufficient.

why does it seem to be to much power? so you cant run a sub at a 2 ohm load to an amp at 1 ohms?

The speaker itself puts the ohm load on the amp

colvera21 wrote:

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why does it seem to be to much power? so you cant run a sub at a 2 ohm load to an amp at 1 ohms?

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I have the gain on the amp at 1/4, no bass boost, my headunit subwoofer out at +3 (max being +6) and the sub sounds great. Any higher and the sub hits X-Max (over excursion). It could be my box, one little miss calculation can make a box sound like crap. But I think all of our measurements were correct!!!