In my opinion, you've downgraded the system. Before, she had great subs and a great looking enclosure with a port firing through the armrest. Now you've given her less cone area that's going to take a lot more power to produce the same levels of bass (lower sensitivity) and it's going to be rattling the trunk even more because the port and the subs are firing into it. It's a lower quality sub and the enclosure is nowhere near as nice looking. I would be really angry if somebody did that to my system. Again, just my opinion.
Couple things. The kicker L7’s are a good introductory sub for those who want some upgraded bass in their ride, but those are nowhere near in the same class as the ZV5 12’s. It’s not even close!!! The first box was built for looks to also go with the sound, but the second box built for the ZV5’s is built to look clean, but more than anything, built to handle the sound pressure, power, and violent movement that the sub produces! And not only has the sound quality improved, but the power handling and the deepness was of the bass is a day and night difference. Even with the whole car being filled with sound deadener, there is some rattling that just can’t be avoided, but another box will be custom built and installed to go through the middle armrest depending on how long the port needs to be (she has kids that also ride in her car, so the armrest may need to go up sometimes for the seat to have a body sitting there). Plus, she now has a little more trunk room than she did before. Look up any videos on the ZV5 subwoofers by Sundown, and I’m sure you will retract your statement. Thank you for your input and your comment though. Much respect.🤙🏾
@@ImportLifeMediaWhat do you mean by the L7 being an introductory sub? Are you talking about the L7Q, Q class? That's Kickers top of the line sub. You don't really say what specific model in the video, just L7. Maybe you meant an L7S or L7R? If it was one of those, then yeah, those are more intermediary and I misunderstood which L7 you were talking about. My bad. From what I understand the zv5 is a dedicated SPL sub that's sacrificed some of it's sound quality in exchange for more output. Was that your goal, just to be louder? If so, then maybe it's capable of being louder? I don't know. I don't really understand the "bass head" mentality of wanting to be louder at the expense of everything else. I was not thinking that you guys were bass heads. I'm an SQ guy, so thats my way of thinking. That original box with a pair of L7 Q's would be ideal in my opinion. It would definitely be louder than that single zv5 and you'd still have great sound quality. Anyway it's just my opinion. I'm glad you guys like the new setup and consider it an upgrade. Which it may be if the old subs were a lower level L7. Hopefully I didn't offend anyone. Take care.
