Kicker Comp VR's

[kgasso]

I've had the Gen1 S12L7, a couple of Gen1 S15L7's, and the previous Gen CompVR 10's... and I have to say that the 10's stomped all over everything else in SQ. Obviously the 15" L7's were loud, but I've kinda grown out of the "hear me from 4 miles away" phase

[[SMAN]]

Originally posted by RiCebuRneR206
Actually I've heard quite the opposite. I hear they are poorly made and blow really quickly. I had a Kicker Comp VR 12" in my car in a sealed box and it blew within a week. But I moved up to an L7 and those are some good subs. I hit 122db with just a 300 watt RF amp.

i had two 10" comp VRs for a whole year and never ended up blowing them. But if you blew them in a week it was probably becasue they were brand new and not broken in. Kicker says in their manual that you should not turn your volume up over half of the RMS for the first to weeks so you can break in the sub, otherwise you can blow them pretty easily. A lot of major companies have similar recomendations as well. But this is purley just speculation as to what happened in your case.

[Luc]

Originally posted by RiCebuRneR206
Actually I've heard quite the opposite. I hear they are poorly made and blow really quickly. I had a Kicker Comp VR 12" in my car in a sealed box and it blew within a week. But I moved up to an L7 and those are some good subs. I hit 122db with just a 300 watt RF amp.

Like SMAN said, did you break it in? Or did you just start pounding on it? Was it the older design or newer type with the surround like that of the L-series? No offense, but 90% of the time, it's always user error.

[badazzlegnd]

friend of mine got 2 12inch ones and they are amazing. I am most likely going to get some of these soon

[RiCebuRneR206]

I was actually pushing the Kicker Comp VR with a RF amp (model: 300a2 300watts peak @ 2 ohms). It had dual 4 ohm voice coils so i hooked them up to run at 2 ohms. Then I ran the amp half way making sure I was well below the RMS for Comp Vr's which is around 350-400ish. Then after about a week or so I started hearing the thud noise associated with a blown sub woofer. I mean the sub still hit like crazy but when you opened the trunk and listened to it. It was horrible. Kicker is a great company and I'd recommend them to people. But I had a bad expreience with the Comp VR so I don't plan on buying anymore.