What do you know about RE subs?
 

Can anyone tell me about RE subs.
Are they any good?
What are they selling for?
Anything at all.

I've never heard an RE woofer, so just take my 2 cents as is.

Resonant Engineering is now the benchmark for quality & performance per dollar woofers (along with adire, dd, ascendant, to name a few). They can outperform everything if installed correctly (worded loosely). They have the RE/SR/SE/SX/MX/XXX/MT lineup for 2006. The MT is the SPL woofer that's winning dB drag nowadays. The XXX is the new SQL woofer. It is twice as deep as the old one, and instead of having a 33mm xmax, it now has 54mm (that's a couple inches!) to give you that earth pounding bass, as well as a 2000W RMS powerhandling, an increase of 500W from the old 1500W RMS XXX. The MX is completely new (along with the SR), is an SQL woofer with an RMS of 1500W, and is oriented for a daily driver. The MT is geared for 40-60 hz, while the XXX is designed for the lows. I've heard plenty of good & bad comments on their customer service, but they have just hired a new sales team. Being a smaller company, you can't expect them to be at your toes. In the end, you can expect to be surprized of the SQ and dB of any woofer RE sells. You get what you pay for...

btw...the new XXX MSRP is around $1600...That's what they'll say if you call so, don't. Call a dealer, and you may get an 06 XXX for say, 600-900. Oh, I keep forgetting, this is a canadian site, which means border bullshit and tax. Good luck affording one, but you can't go wrong with any of the speakers they crank out of the factory.

www.reaudio.com > RE audio site (needs updates; only has 05 lineup)
www.carsteros.org > Official RE audio forum

EDIT: just found an RE/adire/visonik/MA audio dealer in the city I live in :cheeky4:

www.hamiltonaudio.com

RE kicks ass :smilie_da

i've got one of last year's 12" XXX subs running of a viper 1200.1 and i'm fairly impressed.

The only thing i have to compare to is a pair of 12" type r's (2004's) which ran of 800rms. Granted box's could make a world of difference, i found SPL to be about equal, and the SQ to be a bit better then that of the type r's.

Thats my view. Now i'd like to pick up another xxx, but that requires more money, plus another or a bigger amp, which in the end, will just upset my jeep's electrical system.

All in all i'm fairly happy though, no complaints about RE XXX from 05

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REs are a very nice sub and I have heard that they are a great company to deal with (from a competitor standpoint, not sure about a consumer standpoint). Even their low end subs pack a serious bang for the buck, I wouldn't personally get an MT for a daily driving car, however if you were to get something like an SX I think you would find it for a reasonable price and get something that you will be very happy with. If it were me personally buying a daily driving woofer I would buy a Kicker L7 or two off ebay and save some money personally though because those woofers are awesome for daily driving and SPL comps. I really hate it too because they are so commercial and such a big company and usually you don't see great SPL and street woofers coming from companies like that, let alone at a really cheap price!

For sure Kicker is great for low pricing, especially on ebay. CVR 12's go for 90 bucks on some sites, the same with type-R's.

Anyone seen the 06 re xxx's? ridiculous they r

Some eye candy...The XXX and MX, as well as an old/new XXX comparison, as well as an XXX vs MX comparison. 2006 lineup :appl: .

The new XXX's are around $700 US, am i correct?

damn i need one of these subs

I had to remove some of your post because it was very inaccurate.

Bladeice is not located in Canada, they're European. Leading people to purchase from them when you clearly have no idea is probably not a good thing.

I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help, but make sure you know what the heck you're talking about first.

when i was in vegas i got to hear a new XXX. pretty cool, but not my cup of tea. i don't value excursion enough to trade off high inductance, high mms, and power handling in the 3-4kw range just to reach xmax.

of course, at that level of output, your substage becomes so overpowering that i guess you would only be concerned about getting loud ;)

"Resonant Engineering is now the benchmark for quality & performance per dollar woofers (along with adire, dd, ascendant, to name a few). They can outperform everything if installed correctly (worded loosely)."

All I can say is wow, just wow. Looks like I am going to have to dump every line I sell to get this line. Wait a minute, since we are taught to beleive what we read it must be true, right? Talk about a company doing the Jedi Mind Trick on a consumer, perhaps they also have free real estate for sale.

No offence dude, but if you have zero experience with RE, why post a statement such as the one posted with holes big enough to drive a truck through? I'm sure that RE is a great company, but the statement is a little misleading, same with other parts of the same post.

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You know looking at the companies you sell I would drop a few and pick up RE to be honest. They offer a high end woofer better than anything you carry and mid-level woofers that are easily comperable to Audiobahn and Concept offerings. You could probobly drop some others too but I know its hard because people walk in the door with JL Audio and Rockford and MTX in their minds and its hard to convince them there is anythign better for the money.

I found that odd too.. "I've never heard one, but they Kick ass"... WTF

Mark

It's obvious. I don't need to hear a speaker to know that the products are worth the money etc. Sorry for the bladeice link, but I was told it was a canadian dealer. When I said RE is now the benchmark for quality & performance, that does not mean that I am taking away that kind of statement from other audio products. What other subwoofer has a 54mm xmax? Obviously RE makes good speakers, and not just because of it's XMAX (if I didn't say that, someone was bound to rip that statement up saying that xmax doesn't really matter etc). I'm still in the beginning stage of car audio, forgive me. But I'll say it again differently...

PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD RE SPEAKERS CAN SAY THEY KICK ASS :cheeky4:

Take it or leave it.

I think it's best to let people that are able to form opinions be the one to state them, opposed to you stating someone else's opinion... everyone will be better off. If you have an opinion on certain equipment that you have, or have heard, then great.

regards, Mark

speaker looks amazing....i cant imagine that anyone would need anything more......but....how many finals competitors use them.....how many records are broken with them....a few....more than a few......how many did treo break...how many did dd break...how many did jbl break.....and lets not forget pioneer.....right now the best woofer installed properly out there is pioneer.....that pains me to say that ...but it is very true.

this is a great looking sub. i think our opinions are best left for the day after finals and then we can see how many resords are broken and most importantly ...which ones are broken.

Thank you. Over the years I think I've heard more bragging about un-tested and un-proven products than the stuff that does the job day in and day out. Like "shadow" said, the lowly Pioneer seems to be able to hold it's own against all these bad boys that are on the scene. When they have proven themselves over 30 years like the big names have, then they are ready for bragging rights. Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky did not have one great game, they had great careers!