Oke, I am running the RP1600-SW for 3 months now... no issues... Gain at +7.5Db... LFE... works like a charm... Plate Amp still doing fine... THe driver can't die I believe...not this heavy... THe Amp aint strong enough for that Driver.
I have owned velodyne hgs 18 20 years ago and Def tech supercube 4000 there the amps died after a While then. On the hgs 18 i was taking out the amp and sending it back to the shop i bought it from, and getting a new amp a few weeks later than, and it works as it should then and NO problem with it. So all amps regardless of price and the mark can fail then. Sold my svs sb 16 u a few years ago and the new owner e-mailed me that the amp died but the guarantee had gone out on it by a very short time before it then.
I agree a subwoofer at this price should not be able to beat itself to death, and the amplifier should be well-protected from exceeding the capabilities of the electronics, but what you're describing doesn't really bear that out. Sure, if you have confirmed in your room that you can sweep or hit peaks at 115 dB for the full frequency range after calibration, everything is a-ok. Otherwise you can have calibrated at a lower volume, and then when going to reference the amp was overdriven trying to keep up. As I said, the amp should be protected from doing this and compress or limit its output instead, but the gain knob on the sub is not a good indicator of how hard you were driving the subwoofer. Here's to hoping this one keeps up in the long run 🤞
Howzit, Will you consider doing reviews of the Bentley acoustic subs with the RF subs. Would be very interesting to see how they perform using automotive subs. Great channel!
I have the same exact subwoofer RP1600, as of late last night mine quit working as well I called Crutchfield they want me to take the plate amp off the back of it and check for connections will update very aggravated at this point😫😫
I’m not very knowledgeable on any of this. However I just got the rp-1600sw to replace my 2 older 12” subs. I put the gain around the same as the 12” subs at 6 and there was almost no bass coming from the sub. Does this one require the gain to be turned up?
@@homecinemaking397I have my bass set to neutral but I do have the lower frequencies boosted up to 80hz. The only thing I can think of is I haven’t done a room eq because I have satellites coming tomorrow. But I didn’t think it would reduce the output of the sub so much that the 12s in the same location at the same gain have more bass.
@@TheNLHAZE Some low quality subwoofers don't have a subsonic filter. A subsonic filter is a High Pass Filter for very low frequencies. Depending on the slope adjustments that feature cuts off the unwanted hz (from 1hz to 15hz for example) to avoid extra stress on the subwoofer. It is highly possible that the Klipsch failed because of that
