that makes a bit more sense lol

 

ndinadis,
Were you able to get your hands on an exile sub yet?

 

I have not, I think my local store has it, when I looked into it I decided just to hold off and wait till mine blows. I am still going to be considering it in the future though, it sounds like I would be happy with it.

 

I highly recommend this sub, been running it daily since early this summer and its held up to the beating I've given it. Its powered by an Infinity Reference 1600a in my system upon which I've messed up the tuning and haven't had time to fix it so I'm sure there's a bit of clipping going on too.

Had it in a 3.0cft ported enclosure for a while and it hit incredibly low, accurately and loud! I now have it in a 1.6cft sealed enclosure, and although its not quite as loud or low as it was in the ported box for obvious reasons, it still blows anything in the same price range away.

I've attached a couple graphs from winISD on its response in my ported and sealed enclosures. Green is the ported 3cft tuned to 24hz, yellow is the sealed 1.6cft.


I've been incredibly happy with this sub and would never go back to a big name retail brand again.

BTW, my previous sub was a Kicker cvr8-2 which I succeeded in completely ceasing. No such misfortune or any warning signs at all so far with the Exile.


edit: I apologize if I brought this thread back from the dead, but I had to share my results

Also, the attached image's green results are incorrect, that's actually for a 1.6cft ported enclosure tuned to 34hz.

 

Here's the graph with the ported 3cft tuned at 24hz

 

man I like the look of that ported box graph, but thats a HUGE box for a single 12 in a musical set up isnt it, mine is in a 2cf plus port and its quite big for a 12 I thought. I need to see what I can buy the one I found in my store for (have one new in box in our warehouse (we dont actually sell them its just there)

 

Hey cbigganz,

..........I agree with you 100%. These exile xpe12d subs are an incredible value for the money and appear to be bullitproof. I recently built a box that is 3.2 cu.ft in total (1.6 / chamber) for 2 of them and is tuned to 36hz. I have not installed it yet............Can you come up with a few graphs on what would be the ideal set up??? I want high spl, but with tons of bass. I went with 1.6 per sub because thats what exile recommends for spl.............also, have you ever come across any test reports on the net for the exile xpe12/xpe12d???
Thanks...

 

I sell these at future shop ( thunder bay)they are a great deal for 149.95 each ,I have never seen one dead yet but there on clearence so if any one is thinking of this deal go do before there gone.

 

Wow these really seem to be a great bargin! I would have never thought Future Shop stuff could sound half decent without destroying itself!

 

Glad to know that something that works well doesnt carry a huge price.