Hey guys, new here. I've been reading over a lot of your posts and have seen a lot of neat installs. As you can see, I have the above amp that I purchased a few years back for a single 12" RF Punch sub for my Blazer. This amp made that one sub sound insane. What I need to know, is there a decent single 10" sub that I can get that will make my truck sound sweet, or should I go with two? I really would like to have the room under the other seat for mounting the amps etc, as I like nice clean installs, and I'm leading towards the MusicMoose single 10" box.

I'm not a techie, but according to my amp, it pushes 250w RMS x1 into 4ohms and 500w RMS x1 into 2 ohms. 775w x1 into 2 ohms at 14.4v. That being said, I'm gonna need a pretty beefy 10" sub that can handle that kind of power... Everything I read about this amp on the internet says it's just a god and destroys subs all the time, so I want to get a sub that can handle the load.

http://www.mtx.com/caraudio/archive/thunder6500d.cfm

A couple reviews...
http://www.carreview.com/cat/car-aud...2_1806crx.aspx

Any help whatsoever would be awesome.

(EDIT) Did a little research and found this. I'd get the 2-ohm version of this. Seems to be a great buy. Anyone have any experience with these? I'm not going into any competitions, I just want to have some nice hard hitting base in a compact spot. Does this match well with my amp?
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-KICKER-CVR-1...QQcmdZViewItem Maybe even the Alpine Type-R, but how well does it fit in these shallow boxes?



On another note, this same amp was constantly blowing a fuse in my old Blazer after a few months of being installed. As soon as I put the inline fuse in up near the battery, and reconnected my amp, it'd blow. I've since sold that Blazer, and gutted the stereo. I never did pull out my main power wire, but I'm pretty sure it was smashed somewhere and grounding out. All three fuses installed IN the amplifier are still fine. Can I just take a couple wires from my battery and ground the amp, to test whether or not the light comes on? Any danger in that at all?

One more question, in past installations of amps, I've encountered a buzzing noise. I know that was because I ran the RCA Cables down the same side as the power wires, and I corrected that on future installs. That being said, is it fair to say I should always run the remote and power wires down one side of the truck, and the RCA down the other, or are there ways around that depending on the grade of your RCA's, etc?

 

No its all good to do that. As long as wires dont touch or the hot doesnt ground out because there is no protection on the wire. BTW your hot wire was grounded. The immediate popping of the fuses is the #1 sign of it. #2 is your car on fire...

Theres restrictions. On 4ch and highs I dont recommend running the wires together. But on subamps I dont worry about it too much. Because the whine is too high pitch to come through the larger spks. Now the better quality of the build of RCAs does help. But its not the end all. It really depends on the setup and how its done.

 

Thanks for the info. Now all I need to do is figure out which custom under the seat box and which sub I want to get. Think I should be ok running a 4gauge cable for that amp? 1/0 just seems so ridiculous, and the fuses that come with them are like 150amps... yet my amp is fused at 75 amps. Doesn't this cause a problem? Or, is your main concern for the primary fuse just to make sure that your car doesn't start on fire, and it can be basically any size (within reason)?