How BAD is this $20 Subwoofer? Pyle PLQB10 Reviewed and Tested

[@wal]

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[@baneverything5580]

You can scare away raccoons with this. Just relabel it as a pest control device and sell it for 150 on Ebay.

[@especialistqap]

How much decibel ?

[@kevinAuman1]

You sir are my hero!

[@effectivetactics422]

Ahhhh…. Separated voice coil. Where every beat is a snare drum.

[@cubanman2009]

Hey try the solobaric subwoofers in those boxes !

[@MrV1NC3N7V3G4]

Worth the price for just the box! Put a decent woofer in there and tune/secure the ports and done.

[@biggestcomplainer]

That’s what I thought

[@FSXgta]

Because it's so small though you could use a 8'' or 6.5'' instead and get a better response

[@justinhiggins2210]

Good point.

[@GHOSTGHOST-jw1mi]

Yup exactly what I was thinking about trying a different woofer but what woofer cause the box is kinda small for a better sub

[@MrV1NC3N7V3G4]

There are plenty of subs designed for smaller boxes...and then you could always seal the box as well.

[@T_Burd_75]

The cabinet itself may not be that bad of a deal for that price. It would be interesting to see what happens when a real sub is installed and see if it can handle 1000+ watts without blowing the bass ports out or blowing off the Lexan panel.

[@Random_4400]

The box will fall apart, you are lucky if this box survives a 300w sub to be honest 😂 going to need some heavy modifications if you actually want to use it with something properly.

[@T_Burd_75]

@@Random_4400 Umm...yes...that was the point...

[@stucclikechucc]

you know jack shit about subwoofers lol you think your gonna push 1000 watts through a box that small lolololol waste of a sub to throw a 1000 watt sub in that shitty box

[@speedwayaudio3]

Pyle was not always junk. Back in my time they made (for that time period) great amps, speakers, and subs. The they were bought out along with Lanzar and were turned to the crap we have today. Nothing sadder than that.

[@wal]

Happened to a lot of the companies unfortunately

[@danielknepper6884]

Pyle was out of Huntington Indiana. They advertised heavily in car audio magazines in the mid 80's

[@DarkpawTheWolf]

Yep, their old school "Pyle Drivers" (a pun, I think, on the wrestling move - I can't remember the 80s wrestler that did it) were incredible, with huge magnets. They would often go head-to-head against Earthquake, back in the day.

[@Fly2kill1]

Pyle has always been junk. They just had good advertising.

[@dagriz]

Their concrete drivers really pounded back in the day.

[@cHr1s204]

I bought 2 of these, basically for the enclosures. I thought the subs would hold me over for a few weeks until I could afford to upgrade them. The little Rockville RXD-T2 I also bought on sale from Woot made little work of blowing these things. Now I've got a 10" Rockville K6 V2 on the way. Gonna throw that in one and see how it goes.

[@theunknownandunsolved6963]

Sooooo? How did it go?

[@ryzen397]

I've owned 4 rockville subs and they sound good at first but they rattle like ass next and blow.

[@cHr1s204]

@@theunknownandunsolved6963 Not good lol. The K6 was the wrong sub to go with. Even though it's 10" the cast aluminum basket is very beefy and the mount is just too big for these boxes. I bought a new cheap small sealed enclosure and I'm very satisfied with the K6.

[@TimpBizkit]

@@ryzen397 design a proper box for them and reduce the power.

[@xxskizzumxx]

Everyone hates on Rockville, but I LOVE my Rockville amp, been running it hard for maybe 6 years on a old square kicker. Maybe the quality has dipped in recent years, but mine has been awesome

[@terrenperez]

$20 is worth the box. Put another sub in it. Maybe good for a home audio woofer

[@tyronepalmer3708]

Yes keep the box, and then try and find a replacement Sub or a better quality Sub that would fit and sounds good for that size enclosure? [ MTX Blue Thunder, Kenwood Excelon Series Sub, Kicker Comp Sub ]

[@Random_4400]

Yeah if your 10" requires the most bare-bones box.

[@DARKDUDE187]

Did you register them at Pyle? It would be interesting to see if they would honor their warranty seeing as you have documented evidence that they fail well short of their rated power levels. Wouldn't this be part of a review?

[@nobodynoone2500]

I would love to see that. Have never seen any but American and Japanese made stand behind their product.

[@BrianScheuring]

A friend of mine has a set of 15” Pyle subs back in the early 90’s. They SLAMMED harder than anything around. As for today🤷🏼‍♂️. It’s amazing they can make an enclosure with a sub for $20 let alone sell it for $20 and make a profit. Junk or not. They figure for $20 no one’s gonna bitch.

[@tyronepalmer3708]

Yes- I had 2- 15's Pro Pyle Subs, I never had any problems with them at all? Until they couldn't fit in my 95 Honda Accord? Had to get some 12's Kicker Solo in a Custom Sealed Small Box.

[@gainerman]

No kidding ! How is that possible

[@gainerman]

With shipping ! A large flat rate usps box shipping is 20 dollars

[@g.n.4046]

"Pyle Toobz" back in early 90's ! 👍👍

[@Chris-yy7qc]

Theyre not making any profit. The 20$ is the clearance price. It was priced at around 100$ originally.

[@stevechisholm107]

Thanks!

[@kdigiacomo]

I'm I graduated high school in 1993 and ran Pro Pyle 10's in a sealed box, sounded pretty good. Put them in a bandpass box made for 12's (plated over the holes with ¾ MDF and obviously drilled for 10's) hell they were ridiculously loud! Back then they definitely were made a lot better. Powered by a Fosgate 500w dyno'd at 734w, they were always under rated. I still have the amp and it works flawlessly.

[@KyrieEleisonMaranatha]

I have 2 pyle power 10 inch subs in my custom built floorstanding speakers in my home. They have been going strong now for like 8 years. Getting daily use of about 30 watts to 100 watts rms.

[@dnbaddict]

Wow! I really thought it would do a little better then that. At $20 that just about covers the price for the wood and carpet 😂 I was hoping you would put in a better woofer that could handle at least 400 watts and push it with out that thin plexiglass.

[@ashton9699]

7:56

[@dnbaddict]

If it can be pulled out then another woofer can be installed. It depends what he has on hand. A long extension attached to a drill could be used as well 😉

[@RK-ci9nn]

Can't wait to see how this performs with a better subwoofer! Even for $100 if the box quality is good and is tuned right a subwoofer like a Skar SDR or more SQ Rockford Fosgate R2/P1 would sound amazing for less than $200.

[@chrishernandez2490]

Amazing? No. Better? Yeah I guess. I still think that enclosure size is way too small and trying to tune it lower your just going to end up losing a ton of output

[@RK-ci9nn]

@@chrishernandez2490 That is a good point, but it depends on if you put some polyfill in and what the subwoofer's capable of running in such a small box.

[@tylerscott9329]

These aren’t that bad if you only want to run around 100 watts rms to add a small amount of bass and they can reliably do that. Pyle rates them like they do their amps thinking you will pair them up and their 1000 watt amp only outputs maybe 200 watts peak. That 350 watts of power was just shredding it.

[@atomicagegamer3693]

I was curious about that. How would it sound with a 150 watt load. Would it be reliable at that power level, etc.

[@TimpBizkit]

Especially on a continuous tone generator, rather than the kick and bass hits of a pop song, which is how a lot of speakers get rated. They don't need to handle an endless drone tone of 500 watts, only Phil Rudd's kick drum that momentarily gets to 500 watts.

[@thegoatcatcher]

Sounds like an 80s sci-fi movie flick where the aliens are landing on Earth.

[@RJSDZNS]

Proof that Pyle really is a Pile!! 😂😂😂 Great tests D, love to keep them companies honest and keep our money where it belongs!

[@wal]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@majicdude88]

Then you better say that about every brand, including the big ones like JL, who does a biblical level of lying (selling you a $1k+ W7 that cost $25 to make and is basically the same as any cheap sub, but claims it is "high in technology")

[@MadDragon75]

Too bad he didn't get to finish the test..🤣.

[@MadDragon75]

@@majicdude88 yeah.... but no. I'm rocking that dual slug Walmart $100 sub right next to my skar audio evl 12 and I'm using the JL Audio 500/1 monoblock to drive that Walmart sub so I'm not being so easy on it. Granted.. I have the scar on 1000 watt monoblock but still..... 😬 these results are very sad.

[@MadDragon75]

Didn't mention that it's like 3 years old and still flexes like day one?

[@oldguyBMX]

Back in about 1992 I had a set of PYLE POUNDERS in 12 inch. Powering them was a a punch 75 they were in a fleamarket prefab posted box. I honestly have to admit they held their ground! In the hatch back of my 1983 Toyota celica. They had huge magnets! The car was stolen and never recovered.

[@harleymclemore8335]

I bought one of their 1k watt 15 inch subs and it lasted about 5 min and it never saw more then 300 watts. I had their pro series 4x6s and 6.5 components in my truck and they sounded pretty good even though I never gave them the 200 watts rms they said they would take . The magnets were 40oz on the 6.5s which was more then the subwoofer had.

[@Bfresh99]

I recently bought one of their tube style sub/enclosures. I couldn't even tell there was a sub in the trunk, total toilet water. I remember friends having Pyle drivers that thumped back in the day, oh how they have fallen.

[@dalebills9470]

No not toilet water huh 😂

[@510enator]

The question I have is, would you think the enclosure by itself worth $20 dollars . A lot of spots want $100+ just for enclosure. I would rather spend $20 and toss the sun that came with it and put within spec a better sub

[@Aboutthatbuslife]

i second this. lets do a sub change in this box lol

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

If you can find a sub that will work properly with those dimensions the box seems to be pretty decent, just a bit small whitch makes finding a driver harder. You'd have to do some modeling with the listed specs of multiple subs before buying a woofer.

[@siler7]

20 dollars dollars

[@jasonzitt6408]

I actually got one of these. I paid about double what you did. I replaced the sub and did some strategic gluing. I dont think i could get a box this size for that. Great video..

[@wal]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@davidsutton5266]

that box is worth 20 bucks even with no speaker

[@benlundahl4372]

I bought a Harmony Audio 1500@1ohm and wow all thanks to Williston Audio Labs!!! Love these! Keeping those companies humble!

[@951258tike22]

I appreciate you going above and beyond and testing out its wear-ability as a hat

[@beauyo1293]

Had two pyle 10’s in my 87 T-bird 5.0 WAY back in the day. Lol. They weren’t half bad back then.

[@exdime]

This is why you break in a new sub! Joking lol. But 20 for just the enclosure isn't bad. Would like to see if it would holdup

[@turboflush]

I have a Pyle home "sound bar" unit. I love it. The box has split apart a bit. But it puts out decent loud and good sound in Garage environment. I don't max volume to preserve its life.

[@audiokeller1975]

Cool video!!!! I think if you apply a steep 25Hz highpass filter that sub will last much much longer. This will prevent the woofer running way out of its XMax. i guess this woofer has around 100 - 150 watts rms.

[@THX..1138]

Yup I'd say 125 watts max....On occasion Pyle puts out an honest spec sheet on their speakers. Generally they are lying about everything. RMS watts are 1/4 or less whatever's printed on the speaker or box it came in. Even the weight of the magnet is about 1/2 whatever they state. Frequency response for a 10 will be more like 35hz or higher....IMO the only thing Pyle are good for is to add a little base to a factory sound system. The sub in this vid added to a 10 watts per channel base model sound system would be a nice improvement. For anything else it's pure junk.

[@audiokeller1975]

@@THX..1138 i remember the mid 90s when Pyle woofers were well known 👍

[@rlmotorsportsllc8530]

I picked up 12 8inch pyle power series off Amazon last year for around 22.00 each. Ran it through my audio control dq61 and a planet audio 2500 mono 2ohm. Wired 8 to 1ohm in band pass on a wall.sent about 750 rms. I was surprised on bang for buck 23cuft shared ported box. Didn't blow any of them. You should test those next.

[@wal]

Awesome 👏

[@TimpBizkit]

Multiple cheap subs with plenty of enclosure volume to breathe and not over powered can do pretty well. Also they can be quite economical at turning amp power into sound. But for getting the LOUDEST car, cramming multiple beefy woofers into the same place will always win.

[@TFOTLITBOK_P1_7]

Great review as usual! I have to say, considering the cost of building the enclosure, the terminal cup, the port tubes, threaded inserts etc I think I'd buy a couple just to throw in some old school MTX 10" subs I've had laying around. Plus this is a 2nd order bandpass enclosure that with upgrades to the acrylic panel, maybe twice the thickness or a rigid aluminum plate would solve makes me want a couple versus building them from scratch. It might be interesting to see how it performs with a higher grade sub and a thicker front panel if you have any lying around :).

[@TFOTLITBOK_P1_7]

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground Likewise, I have a couple of Polk Audio 10's in a 2nd order bandpass made by Q-Logic back in the 90's and they perform incredibly well in that setup without driving them to hard. Massive amounts of low bass from it. Sometimes experimentation will reveal surprisingly good results :)

[@TFOTLITBOK_P1_7]

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground Would love to have seen that 😆. Sounds like we're both old school rockers. I still love building and have leaned more towards SQ most of the time but now I'm into SPL a little too. Having a suburban I find there is always a little more to expand the audio system and try new things. Just tried the new Recoil red600 and I'm really liking it driving a single 12" kicker box but then I would never give up on my old Eclipse or Linear Power stuff or the liquid cooled Bazooka amps. Too hard to find the old stuff in good condition anymore. Hoping to see Derick do a review of one of the old school Bazooka amps with or without cooling. My ba1300 is rated at only 375 watts but I've dyno'd it at 537 at 2 ohms. Really curious to see if he would get similar results.

[@621ELECTRONICS]

I personally wouldn’t waste the time nor expense of a thicker acrylic sheet; at the cost of a larger piece of acrylic, or thick aluminum, plus this box, you could build a custom one that is all around better (okay, maybe cost slightly higher, but worth it over trying to upgrade this type). I had a couple 2x12” bandpass boxes years ago with a larger acrylic sheet and same thickness (about 1/4" thick) and they worked fine. Sure there is flex, but making it rigid didn't make a perceivable difference, maybe on an SPL meter you'd see it, or a slight change in response graphs, but not noticeable from normal listening. I remember swapping it out with 3/4” MDF which is pretty rigid thinking it would help, and honestly put the acrylic back on. These are never going to be used with ultra high power subs, rather a few hundred real world watts, so the stock acrylic should be fine for the kind of subs that will make their way into these boxes. I’d be more concerned with the wood panels being glued together well. I had a Pyle PLBP122 bandpass 20+ years ago and had to glue the panels so it didn’t rattle. Other than that $20 is a fair price for just the box, even if it needs a little glue. The 1/4" x 10"x10" acrylic sheet on it cost nearly 20 by itself. Obviously if you wish to upgrade the acrylic, nothing wrong with doing that, I just don't believe it is worth the added cost / effort for very minimal, if any noticeable bass response changes. If you do it, and can do a before and after SPL reading, post back as I'd certainly be curious to know what measurable differences you got. And please don't take offense to my comment, just made me think back playing with these style boxes and my thoughts on the idea.

[@621ELECTRONICS]

Also wanted to add. Another cheap box to look for, the old Jensen 2x10” bandpass box with the 4 ports on the top rear if you want a box with thicker acrylic, it 5/16", which makes the one on this Pyle look really thin in comparison. I have a couple of those Jensen boxes still, they pop up cheap from time to time.

[@TFOTLITBOK_P1_7]

@@621ELECTRONICS Valid points to be sure, I was thinking more along the lines of using material already on hand to correct the issue of vibration with this boxes acrylic. I just figure that out looks fairly well constructed other than that for a run of the mill subwoofer maybe in the other of 500 watts or less. Not sure how far they go in box construction but it looks to be on video that it may be ¾" or ⅝ at minimum. Of course the port tubes need securing but again I think for $20 it's not had minus the front acrylic and the subwoofer they stuffed in it. Seems the material would be worth the cost at least. Of course building from scratch would be better it's more for me anyway a case of could something good be made from this enclosure by itself. Being over the hill and short of time for projects makes a difference for me as well :)

[@housepumpinpc3983]

When you pulled the ports out I was done.🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

[@2011joser]

I ran 4 8” subwoofer set ups back in the late 80’s/ early 90’s and began with Pyle drivers. By the early 90’s they had fallen behind and I moved on to better brands. About 10 years ago I was in need of a pair of subs and I bought a pair of Pyle 8” subs along with a set of nos JL Audio 8”s just to see how Pyle was doing. The Pyles were absolutely horrible. They had a very low distorted output that could’ve come from a flea market woofer. I paid around $50 each but I let my son sell the pair for $20 so no one could feel ripped off. Pyle is just the worst of zombie audio brands now.

[@mikebaird6788]

I still got my Pile box the one from the late 90s with the mid-range tweeters built-in it's behind the seat of a truck those holdup work great even to this day they need to stop selling out their brand for bargain-basement and improve the quality of little bit so it holds up

[@billyt9987]

Back in the mid-80's Pyle made a good product. I bought a truck speaker with 6.5" subs in it. If I wanted too, I could have told folks I had 10's in there. That speaker system hit hard. Pyle sold a few more speakers down the road because of those 6.5 subs. Those things were legit. Wish I still had them

[@wal]

👌😝👍

[@g-style4466]

I remember that too. A buddy of mine had two Pile 12 in his Toyota truck with MBcourt mids and couple Sherwood amps. Remember correctly I think it was a Sherwood 240 and a 180

[@michaelfessenden8601]

Im still searching for the chest pounding i had from the pyle 8"

[@kramnull8962]

I worked with a guy that had a 64 Chevy 4 door. Everyone hassled him about putting 4 Pyramid subs in the trunk. They were about the same level as Pyle. Though back then those Pyramids actually created a huge level of noise....

[@marcusworld87]

I remember back in 2006 buying the pyle driver sub, at the time they were like 80 a piece and hot really hard

[@sketchyssk8shop]

I have 4 6.5 inch subs from Pyle. They do well for what they are

[@dslynx]

Not surprised you blew them both. 500w is always a joke with companies like that. RMS is probably more around 150w if you are lucky. A soon as I saw it hit 300w, I was thinking it was blown and then the clip light lit up.

[@gainerman]

I have a similar Jensen 10 inch sub in a very similar band pass box , it has to be 30 years old it was given to me with some other better audio I bought , it actually does good for what it is and still works to this day .I doubt it was 20 bucks new ,and it's that one hit wonder

[@jordanslingluff287]

Good to see Pyle hasnt changed. I bought a dual 10" pyle bandpass back in 98 from a pawn shop for my first system. The speaker bottomed out after about a month and just popped. I learned my lesson and got a 15" MTX after that.

[@jasoncaine2600]

First mistake was going to a pawn shop 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@superchile9640]

That box takes me back to the 90’s flea market scene.

[@elijahdossett3528]

One of the first ever systems I had was that same box and sub. I swapped it to the Skar IX 12 and put a ply wood 1/2” thick front cover. Had it on a skar lp-750.1 and it actually sounded great.

[@Jayallen541]

I was just curious do you break them in before you start your test just wondering cause you never mentioned that ?

[@jonanderson4474]

I like how you have a twenty dollar box on a couple thousand dollar sub and box table.

[@wal]

Ha ha 😜

[@angelolovato6494]

We use to have our box guy swear up and down pyle audiobahn subs were no joke. But I use to love seeing that guy take cheap subs and make great sounding systems with them. 25 dollar SPL subs in a crazy box he made. Man it was awesome

[@lordhostile]

there was a short time between 88-93 when Pyle was decent entry level brand, now they are on par with Kraco. I think the parent company licenses the name out to any company that produces garbage hoping ppl buy it out of nostalgia.

[@Highrollinhunter]

Yep Pyle even made decent entry level guitar amps new Pyle guitar amps I heard sound like shit compared to peavey

[@AaronHendu]

Back in day, I did my buds Dodge Neon with cheap Pyle stuff...subs, amp, speakers, etc. The whole legit car audio setup was like $120 lol. It was actually sick af...we grew up in the hood and everyone loved it.

[@drutang]

$20 is good for the box considering the price wood👍🏼👍🏼

[@michaelbetancourt6210]

The name speaks for itself since the beginning

[@MrNside]

Haven't been into car audio since the mid to late 90's. I suppose it's comforting to see Pyle has stayed consistent after all these years. The question stops being, "Why do people buy this?" And becomes, "Why does a company even bother making this?"

[@tonyperi78]

Good job on the burn in period! Would you take a brand new engine to redline?

[@wal]

How does one assume it wasn’t broken in properly? Just broke, not broke in 🤣

[@trepanier01]

The box is probably worth $20 at least

[@wal]

That was my thoughts

[@ksavage681]

@@wal Throw some cheap Skar drivers in it.

[@benjaminzacharko8740]

You putting that cone on your head is worth watching this ten times 🤣🤣🤣 great work man

[@k24hybrid]

Hello! Did you make the US$ 70 enclosure test? I'd like to see your review about those cool looking dual speaker bandpass/acrylic enclosure. I find having the front of the speakers sealed is very awkward 😅. Thanks.

[@Mr.NpK143]

What's good bro!! You and I both crawling to the finish line. Thanks a million for that decab. What's up with the truck now?

[@hooptastic_hippie8522]

that Ernest goes to Jail clip tho!!!...I LOVED that movie when i was a kid ..i really want to watch it again

[@gamingwithsai6822]

I really like these type of videos. Not much videos on woofer tests on KZbin. Would love to see more vids like this😊❤

[@gamingwithsai6822]

@WillistonAudioLabs.. fake

[@Outty5000Hertz]

Definitely lil D wiz now. Amazing transformation!!! Still my favorite KZbin channel and you ain’t been near five guys lately 😂

[@wal]

Must be the camera angle 😜

[@wtfngarage2082]

Put a low end 8 in it instead of a 10 with the box being so small may actually sound ok that way

[@Brad_to_the_bohn]

A buddy of mine had Pyle blue wave subs back in high school. He never hooked them up because the motor shifted on one from the summer heat lol

[@PetruV]

The coil was not even slightly darkened,so it would have probably taken a lot more power for a lot longer,but the adhesive failed,which is kinda weird they would cut costs/make mistakes there

[@wal]

They used Elmer’s school glue for the coil after eating some. Not Pyle but whoever made it 😜

[@russelllopez4171]

Real neat at 5:45 watching the impedance slowly going up until the point of failure. Started at 4-5 ish 5-6ish 5.7-7 ish 7 8 death

[@denisohbrien]

interesting thing is that coil is not burnt up in the slightest, gotta be an adhesive failure. would have sounded like junk thanks to the box, but also would have lasted with the correct adhesive.

[@mattd1142]

It’s actually kinda sad tbh. I’d much rather pay a little more for a decent quality. The cabinet looks great it just sounds like the electronics are crap. They could easily fix this and rase the price a little for a decent speaker

[@scarce911]

I never hsd any Pyle equipment..but i dabbled in Legacy back in the day.. budget equipment will always have its place

[@regalt1987]

man back in the early 90's I had a really nice pair of Pyle 6x9's, They were actually pretty good performers.

can that speaker can be rebuild but with decent components? Here at my city, they are some places where they rebuild speakers, PA and those car kind of woofers!

[@BLUE_OCTOBER-TRIX]

the box is definitely not that bad you could put a new sub in there for sure I would also glue down the ports at that point but I wouldn’t repair the speaker it’s garbage regardless

[@gman103]

I bought a Pyle 10in 4 ohm DVC Speaker for $13 bucks, rated at 500W and 1000W peak. I barley had it turn up on a 50W amp, bridged to 2 ohms, and blew immediately ... well it came with a 30 day warranty so I said I'll get a replacement and try again .... Wrong... I get the 2nd one a week later and say, "I'll wire it as 8 ohms more resistant and give it a Lil less power maybe". Well I was able to get a nice little thump for a minute and soon heard crackling SMH Pyle use to be the Shizznit back in the day and thats what made me try it out in the first place...

[@piptyson5512]

Whoa was that a quick peak at an FP there at the end!? Things are about to get funky!! 🐶

[@SecureRepairAndSales]

Funny I bought the 12 inch version some 20 years ago looking quite the same build as that . Sounded just like that . The magnet was broken free from the basket out the box. They get slammed around in shipping .you could have most likely re-centered and glued the magnet and re-glued it and it would have probably been fine. For about 10 minutes at low volume .

[@BLUE_OCTOBER-TRIX]

The speakers are garbage and always have been

[@williamprentice9539]

I love the Ernest thing you added about it blowing up 😂😂😂

[@JeremyMartin-n2t]

My speaker didn't even have a voice coil in it. Took out the Pyle and installed a alpine type s10. Sounds good, and compact. Paid 75 for mine.

[@dashcamcreate1587]

Nice video! What is the name of the woofer test song? Is there a link for it?

[@VolpeInCalze]

First subwoofer I had was a 15" Bluewater and boss 1000 watt amp and a custom box my friend and I made. Sounded pretty good!

[@nopiatl]

Did you not try another Sub in there. We've always wanted to see what those are sound like with a better sub

[@neighborsjordan95]

Man Pyle doesn't seem to be the same company anymore. Years ago I bought 2 PLPW6D Mid-range subs for the rear deck of my car and it really was not hard to beat out the blown to smithereens Delco Electronics speakers they had in there, but I noted that those things really sounded pretty decent and on that shelf open air to the trunk they really bumped! They were DVC with spring loaded terminals and a 600w max and I had 2 of them hooked up to a 1000w amp for a good while before selling them with the vehicle. I vowed that one day I would get a bunch and make a box of just these things and years later I did. at about 20 a piece, I got 8 and made a box but this was the height of lumber prices and the wood I got was WAYYYY too thin because of my budget, so it didn't work out but these new PLPW6Ds are much worse. about 5 of the 8 were alright in build, but 3 of them the basket was not aligned on center, 2 came out of the box scratchy, all of them advertised spring terminals on the box but none of them actually had them, and all of them advertised 600w on the box, 400w on the speaker, and I think 200w on the papers? What?? What happened to the product I remember because I know I bought genuine Pyle stock, but I feel like all I got was a genuine Pyle of garbage. When did things change over there?

[@xlivtheman]

they have small handled screwdrivers that would make easy work of getting the woofer out. might be a good investment.

[@Delta132]

I love watching people review these cheap subs and how bad half of them are, and I would also love to see another driver in that enclosure.

[@wal]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@tyronepalmer3708]

Cheap Speakers and Subs will sound great at low volume [ 200 watts and lower 🤣🤣🤣 ]? They can't even last during the demo, please people do your homework and research before buying?🤣🤣🤣

[@clarencejones6299]

How much for the two boxes

[@dilbeckskate]

Enjoyed this ! Took me back to late 90s and early 00s I had tons of cheapo bandpass different brands

[@ronaldtyler7734]

The Pyle enclosures are really nice. Can you make a video of more powerful subs to see if those enclosures can produce great bass. Great vid 👍

[@wal]

In the plans!

[@FatherLamb]

Way back, The old blue waves that had the flame print in the cone were AMAZING. You could put them things through hell. They sounded damn good. They also had softer flex, And a magnet big enough to take out a crowd of rioters lmao.

[@AnthonyAndJanell]

Would it be worth it just for the box and add a descent sub to it?

[@JoshKetchum]

I once bought a pair of 6 x 9 Pyle blue wave model and they came brand new in the box with no tinsel leads! LOL! Good old JC Whitney!

[@gat2asp919]

First system 1996. 2 10" Pyle on a 400watt Jensen amp in my Ford Escort wagon. I was boomin

[@niklaskarlsson236]

Can you please link to the other 2 "upcoming" videos mentioned in the end?

[@DragonOtter]

I wonder if a sundown would fit in that enclosure and make it a better band pass and redo the ports. 🤔 could we make it better?

[@kainhall]

0:45 why are they listing it as a component speaker? where is the separate tweeter then?

[@HansV6]

Nice video, Thanks! For that price you can't make something like this! Like other people saying put a JL, Polk or something like that in it they can handle this housing, maybe a thicker acryl panel, modding the ports and it plays good I think!

[@jjhack3r]

Just by looking at that sub, I wouldn’t put more than 100 watts into it... you messed up by using the power ratings on the box.

[@LaughingBuddha33-p3z]

Pyle was very entry level even in the 90s when I got into car audio. But something for kids who are just starting out literally on their own and can work up from there 🤔

[@bradleyd6000]

I remember when PYLE used to make good speakers. They were never the best of the best but were very solid.

[@ViktorRomanov-y7x]

I did the exact same thing in 2003 with a Pyle 2 sub bandpass preloaded box. Said waa rated for 250 watts rms put maybe 150 to it and about 10 minutes later both blew. Thank god i worked for Best buy at the time and got the sub and amp sub $100 with the employee discount. F the extended warranty lol

[@joefries365]

Hey new subscriber here. Are you going to put another driver in there!? excited to see that

[@edwinrijos6679]

Great video like always, question when will you be coming out with the 18 inch skar sub for home theater. Im curious on what amp you would use for that. right now i did a 15 inch sdr skar home theater sub with a 300 watts klipsch plate amp and is doing pretty good need to get atleast a 800 watt amp since the skar has 600 watts rms.

[@wal]

Not sure it was an idea and I shouldn’t have mentioned it until I had a plan

[@jaymzstrader1945]

I know back in the early 90's you could buy a 12" pyramid sub for super cheap and that thing actually hit pretty damn hard and lasted.

[@_cody]

i used the basket from one of these and added a 132oz magnet and a coil from a 12 inch sub and made it actually thump

[@kainhall]

i was known as the car audio guy in my town (99 buick century that looks STOCK, besides the head unit..... but an eclipse 3640 that does 40W RMS x 4 at 0.006%THD....aka a "cheater amp" powering 6.25 + seperate tweeters in the front doors..... and 3 way 6x9s in the rear window deck...... then an alpine PDX 1.1000 first gen on two 12 inch 2nd gen Type r subs) . so i helped a buddy get a nice pioneer amp (was like 400W iirc.... cant remember if at 2 or 4 ohms, might have been 4) but he had a Pyle sub. . i used a current clamp and DMM to set the gains at EXACTLY the right power for the sub . . . it sounded GREAT for about 20 seconds..... then there was no bass then there was smoke . again... AT RATED POWER FOR THE SUB..... the "Pyle Of Crap" melted down after LITERALLY 3 bass drum hits it wasnt even dubstep or anything like that..... just some waylon jennings lol (its montana.... however, Waylon's drummer is pretty damn good lol) . . . from that point on, ive always called "Pyle"......"Pile Of Crap" . . he got a nice rockford fosgate P3 IIRC.... and its still being used to this day, no issues

[@kainhall]

id also LOVE to send you that Eclipse 3640 for you to dyno...... just to see if it REALLY does 40W at 0.006% THD . im willing to bet it does as it "bottoms out" my 70W RMS rated pioneer speakers.....with just a HINT of distortion . like, their is more distortion from the "soft" impact of the coil hitting the stop than from having the gain too high and it will drive a 85W RMS speaker just fine . . id bet its abound 70-80 RMS at 1% THD...... but still sounds good around 2 or 3% (which would be like 85 or 90W) . . . its from 1999.... built by Fujitsu ten..... using QUALITY parts nippon chemicon caps, texas instruments fets, ETC ETC ETC . its been played LOUD since 1999 and still works played in 110F above to -50F below 0..... and the caps havent even bulged out

[@kainhall]

3:07 YUP!!! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!!! you can use all the proper tools you want.... it still will blow . i bet these would blow if hooked directly to the factory 90s GM head unit LOL

[@darksu6947]

Have you guys ever heard of a Petrafire enclosure? Any information would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure that's the exact name but it's close. I managed to trade around and get one about 16 years ago. It was some type of weird bandpass enclosure where the magnet was facing the plexiglass and the speaker fired into the back panel with a large rectangular port like on the Gately box in the video. Any sub you put into this thing sounded amazing. I've never seen a box that sounded this good, before or since.

[@hermanhorton5944]

Ok. Woot is apart of the big A. You could return it and get another. Woot has some great deals

[@patarisman]

Since you're really good with audio, I have some questions man. Anyway to contact you? Having some trouble getting some subs in the house to hit harder with music. But will rattle the house with a movie. Makes no sense lol

[@joshdozier4496]

I really enjoy watching your videos. Got a couple questions. What 10" sub would you recommend for a small (.67 ft3) ported or sealed enclosure? And is there a follow up video of this enclosure with a better sub in it?

[@wal]

That's pretty small for a 10". I'm working on a follow up video now, will be a week or so. Amp Dyno test video coming tomorrow.