Dayton DVC310-88 12" DVC Series Subwoofer

had to defend this thing. I've owned two in 1.5 cubic foot sealed enclosures for about 7 years. I have two of the PE 250 watt plate amps. during listening at insane levels, I regularly have the amps go into thermal shutdown, so it's fair to say the woofers are being thoroughly put through their paces. I've never heard any bottoming out at all. In fact I would go with more power if I had it to do again. I've also used it with a 600 watt pa amp and never heard bottoming there either at insane output. I gave it 4 for features because of foam surround. they won't last forever and are faded somewhat. but 7 years and going strong. great driver.

I have this in about 2.7 cu/ft tuned port enclosure with a plate amp. The amp is turned up very little, but this speaker really puts out on the explosions, or music with deep bass. It is my rear sub with 2 satelite speakers, and the front are 3 way 15" systems. There is a complete tonal difference between 3 way systems, and sub / satelite system, and I found they fit together well.

I purchased this subwoofer to run as a dedicated home theater sub. I've tried it with amps as low powered as 200 watts and as high powered as 2500 watts and no matter what source of power is used, this subwoofer easily bottoms out.

I've tried 1.4 cu ft boxes sealed as well as 3.1 cu ft boxes ported (all boxes built professionally and within specs).

With music, it's OK, but it even bottoms out with led zepplin!! Come on!