Prefab boxes blow subs

[hondakid1996]

Well long story short, I work at a shop that sells Rockford. A customer has blown 3 pairs of P3 15's in the past month, and up until today we've kept swapping them out. He is running them in the trunk of a Monte in a prefab ported box on a Hifonics Zeus 1500.1 at 1 ohm. So after he blows this last pair, he calls Rockford and the tech tells him it was his box that blew his subs, not his Hifonics with the gain all the way up. So I figured I'd share with everyone that according to Rockford, prefab boxes blow subs, not dirty power.

[thefourth]

I'm sure it's a mixture of a bad box and bad amp

[philrab]

he calls Rockford and the tech tells him it was his box that blew his subs, not his Hifonics with the gain all the way up.

Personally, I'd have called the tech out on the spot for that, and the owner/caller. Phenominally rare to have amp gain cranked to the stop and not be clipping like Hell (like rainbow colored unicorn testicles rare.)

[hondakid1996]

For anyone who is familiar with Rockford techs, his name is Forest. The customer and I tried calling back to speak to him but of course he was busy at the time.

[MrSkippyJ]

I feel like this is not the entire story...or the most accurate version of the story anyway.

[SnowDrifter]

Clipping blows subs. Idiot customers blow subs. Lots of things blow subs

Prefab boxes don't exactly help though. Box too small, port too small. Restricts sub movement and cooling

[Jhunt94]

he calls Rockford and the tech tells him it was his box that blew his subs, not his Hifonics with the gain all the way up.

Personally, I'd have called the tech out on the spot for that, and the owner/caller. Phenominally rare to have amp gain cranked to the stop and not be clipping like Hell (like rainbow colored unicorn testicles rare.)

[Jhunt94]

Clipping blows subs. Idiot customers blow subs. Lots of things blow subs

Prefab boxes don't exactly help though. Box too small, port too small. Restricts sub movement and cooling

The box didn't help, but I never would've thought that a tech would've just told the customer straight up that it was his box and nothing else had to do with it. I'm with Skippy I don't feel like we're hearing the whole story.

[ToNasty]

i doubt it was the box, most prefabs are restrictive .

[slowfkncar]

Its just a combination of simply clipping without the ssf enabled in a prefab. I have been professionally installing at my shop for 12 years. We dont get back many blown subs at all. Unless the customers tamper with it. Look at it this way,a Rockford t1000 has a subsonic filter fixed at 28hz,your average prefab is 40hz. Who's to say 35hz wont blow that rockford to bits.