what subs to put with Orion HCCA 225?

[whitehorse]

i have an orion hcca 225 amp(lil' red amp, as they are known), its suppose to put out around 450-500 watts in a 1 ohm load i believe. i'm thinking of running 1-12" sub in a bandpass or 2-12" subs in a sealed enclosure. anybody have any suggestions? i'm thinking about 2-12" audiobahns, but don't know yet. thanks!

[FunFordCobra]

If you wanna run it in a 2 ohm load with 2 12's, make sure you get single voice coil 4 ohm speakers and brigde them.
If you want to run 1 12 in a 2 ohm load, get a dual voice coil 4 ohm speaker and bridge the whole speaker.
Im not a big fan of audiobahn, but its whatever flips your boat.
You need some of these:

[whitehorse]

i've heard bad things about those square subs tearing up on the corners or something like that. you ever heard of that? i was just saying audiobahn cause my buddy runs a shop and has 3-12" audiobahn subs in a ranger with one of the big audiobahn amps and it hits VERY HARD!!!, but i'm open to any suggestions. thanks!

[FunFordCobra]

No prob with any of the generations of solo's Ive had.
Im putting 1000+ watts to them right now.
If I let it jam at full DB, I can smell the voice coils starting to cook.

[Chopped54]

Depends on the bread you are wanting to spend.
Dont go with Audiobahn. They are Bazaar Crap, IMO.
I would say a single Alumapro. :)
But if you dont want to drop that kinda cash go with Perfects or Eclipse Aluminum sub.
Infinity Perfects:
http://www.easycarstereo.com/infinity/images/perf121_small.jpg
Alumapro:
http://www.alumapro.com/images/m1601.jpg
Eclipse:
http://www.uscaraudio.com/catalog/usrimage/cat121.jpg

[whitehorse]

i have a friend that has a 12" eclipse sub in a custom made box(not really a bandpass, more like a toby ranger style i guess...u cant see the sub and it has a big rectangular port) with a 6 ch. soundstream amp (the old blueish grey ones)pushing the whole system like 50x4 to mids/highs + 150w bridged to the sub...i think. anyway it sounds very clean and has just the right mix of treble and bass!!

[FunFordCobra]

DAMN!
Those aluminum speakers look cool. Who much wattage do they take?
Someone posted up a pic of the new JL's.
Looks to me like they finally got their shiznit right.
Those speakers look 2500w+capable.
I wonder whet the inclosure specs are?