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its perfect and beautiful!! |
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Never have blown a woofer before, purchased two of these for a custom enclosure for my Corvette, had read the reviews, product looked great. Showed up at my installer's shop and he looked at me strange and said "nice woofers for the money, but they won't last". I figured he was being a smart ass so we went along with the install. Have an Arc Audio mini 500 powering them, 10 minutes into playing them at 1/4 volume they locked up, shorted out and blew the fuses on the amp. I have been into car audio since 1986, have never destroyed a woofer before, very disappointed, redesigning the box for a single 12. |
| October 24, 2010 | Great |
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Eduardo from Maceió, AL, Brazil
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its perfect and beautiful!!
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| March 17, 2013 | Big bass from small space. |
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Mil from Quebec, Canada
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My car (2012 buick verano) was originally equiped with a bose sound system that sounded pretty well but needed some more sub-bass to suit my music taste, so i bought two of those 8" subwoofers that I installed in fiberglass custom made boxes (0.35cuft) and drive those subwoofers with 200wrms/woofer. This way i didn't loose any usable space in the trunk but got enough bass to sound exactly like a good 12" subwoofer without having to use a uge box. Those little subwoofers pound hard and provide excellent tight and acurate bass.
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| March 16, 2013 | it bumps! |
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kevin from marengo,il.
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This is a fantastic sub! I have it hooked up to an old-generic-200watt amp and it definitely exceeded my expectations. It is well worth the money and in my opinion it kicks like a sub of larger size. The deep bass tones are very nice!
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| March 7, 2013 | Killer Sub |
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Lucky6Customs from Palm Coast, FL
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This sub is a single coil with low rms. I have it on a crossfire 600 watt amp and for only getting the 500 ish amount of watts it plays 30hz bass notes with authority. It's a killer sq sub and I would recommend it to anyone looking for an 8
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| February 11, 2013 | Mr.B |
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Mr.B from Dupont/WA
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Great price and great product! Small speak packs a large punch! Will shop again!
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| January 15, 2013 | Good woofer |
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Review by
Stasis from Houston
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Packs a punch for a 8 inch woofer. Like it alot especially for the price. Can't beat it
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| January 7, 2013 | JBL GTO804 |
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Review by
Kenny from Oak Ridge, TN
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I have purchased this sub and installed it in a .6 cubic foot slot ported box tuned to 40hz. (Built with the RE Calculator on RE's website) This sub gets loud on my Rockford Fosgate 300.1 amp. I wouldn't recommend running this sub in a sealed box unless you just don't have the space. I started with it sealed first, and wasn't impressed. Running it ported is AMAZING! Especially for an 8" subwoofer.
Only complaint is that if you mount the holes level, the logo on the dust cap is crooked. Just my OCD.
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| January 4, 2013 | Jbl gto804 |
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Bmack from PA
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Works excellent in small box with little air space. This is my second one, the 1st one lasted 3 years of constant abuse.
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| December 12, 2012 | great |
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dfg from dfgh
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they are cheep and under rated with great sensitivity for a hi power sub you cant go wrong i put one in mt work truck and its has all most the same out put ass the 2 10s i have in my car with 1/2 the power very happy with this sub
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| December 3, 2012 | Solid punch |
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chettrick from Malabar, FL
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Got two of these to put under rear seat of truck. With the GTO 804EZ, they are loud and solid. A distinct punch, not a fuzzy bump. Every one I played these for were very impressed with the sound.
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| November 20, 2012 | JBL 8 inch GTO 804 subwoofer |
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Chuck D from Madison Wi.
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I am pleased with the performance of my JBL 8 inch sub. I have it securely mounted in a sealed proportianate sub enclosure made by Sound Ordanance. I have approxiamately 150 watts driving it. I am not interested in booming bass which is overkill. The JBL handles the power that my fosgate amp gives it. The bass is not overwhelming but very tight and enjoyable at higher volume. In a car, you don't need more than one smaller sub and four other speakers to hear everything that has been recorded. 300 watts from one Amp and another 80 watts from the head unit amp is all I need. My system sounds marvelous.
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| October 30, 2012 | Great deal !!! |
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Andrei from Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Excellent product. Very difficult to find in that size high output power. Thanks.
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| October 27, 2012 | Excellent Small Enclosure 8" Sub |
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Green Chemist from Boston, MA
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I had a limited installation depth, and a reasonably small enclosure size maximum. This was for the cargo tray area of a 2008 Mazda5. I modeled (WinISD) out a .35 cuft sealed enclosure with 225 w/rms (from an Aura sound RPM2150 bridged at 4 ohms). The driver barely reaches xmax at this power level even with no subsonic filter. A very safe setup.
After installing and tuning, I'm very impressed with this driver. It gave me the bottom end I was missing with my factory setup. I hate using words like "tight" and "accurate" but this setup as described above is just that. Keep feeding it on the higher end of the recommended RMS and you'll be very happy with this driver given the price and size/space of the installation. I would have liked the option for a dual voice coil version for multiples.
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| October 22, 2012 | Great sound |
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Marty from Vancouver, BC, Canada
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These subs sound amazing. Never doubted from the moment purchased that they wouldn't, being a JBL product. The sound is crystal clear and well worth the price. Highly recommend these and any JBL speakers for that matter!!
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| October 1, 2012 | Decent little subs |
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That guy from the internet from Howabout, NO, Canada
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For the price, they're excellent. I tossed two of these into a pair of ported boxes to put under the rear seats of my friends truck and they rock right along. They're not gonna be ear bleeding and bowel movingly loud, just nice and subtle with enough power to shake the hairs on your head if you want. I'd recommend sticking them in sealed boxes rather than ported ones but i'm more of a SQ guy, not SPL.
Can't really go wrong with them.
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| September 27, 2012 | Rad |
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MICHAEL from GARLAND, TX
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Running these in my rear deck in an IB setup and they are more than what I could ask for. Well worth the money and the bass they produce does not sound like they could only be 8s.
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| July 26, 2012 | Fantastic JBL |
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C. J. from Burbank , CA
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I have this sub for six months now and I listen to music (pretty loud) two hours every day on my way to work. Man this sub rocks with my twelve speakers. It hits any kind of bass perfectly. It takes a little space. I have 200 watts alpine amp four channel and i briged two channel for my sub and two channel for my twelve speakers. with pioneer head unit.Very happy. Good buy.
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| May 31, 2012 | Great little sub for the money |
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Charles from New Port Richey, FL
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Actually ordered 2 of these and placed them in .35cu ft sealed each and fed the 400 watts at 2 ohm final load. These little things are impressive. Good low end, play tight and musical. Definitely worth the money.
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| April 26, 2012 | Excellent sound |
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Brownsfan from Levittown, PA
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Great low end sound at a low end price. Really added boom for the bucks.
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| April 10, 2012 | JBL GTO804 |
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CHUCK from GRAHAM, WA.
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This is a great speaker, I have them in all my vehicles and for the cost of the speakers, you can't beat the sound, really deep bass without the boom, and the clarity is so good, very good speaker.
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| February 29, 2012 | Great Subwoofer |
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Sean from Peoria, AZ
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I run 2 of these in a .6 cubic foot vented box, and all I can say is perfect. The highs are unbelievable for subwoofers, and the lows aren't too shabby either. Still shakes the car at 30hz frequencies in the vented box. I love these little things.
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cap from valdosta, ga
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These speakers are awesome to be so small. This 8" is packing a lot of bass and bottom. This is an awesome item to purchase even if its simple or an outrageous install.
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| December 25, 2011 | Smooth |
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Stephen from Mooresville, NC
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These subwoofers are incredibly smooth sounding considering the price. I have 2 of these in the Sonic vented box powered by a Infinity 1600a and they sound great in my Mazda 3. They certainly are not incredibly loud, but they are loud enough, while still maintaining the sound quality. If you are looking for something that won't eat up too much space I would definately recommend these.
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| December 13, 2011 | Wow! |
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Review by
Isaac from Calgary AB, Canada
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Basically I needed to downsize the bass on my rhd 93 mr2 because I had an orion 12 that took up mad space in the whip and because of the complaints, the overkill inaccurate bass and the waste of space I was thinking about an 8" sub. Because of my prior experience with jbl amps i knew this looked good, and boy this thing is not even even broken in and it hits almost all types of bass hard excluding the extremely low frequency's, shes running at 220rms with a Cerwin Vega sx220.2 and matched to the 7" bd small truck box.
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| December 6, 2011 | AWESOME SUB! |
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Review by
Paul from Norfolk, Va
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I definitly recommend this sub. I did not have a lot of room for a large box in my show car. At first I was skeptical about the size. After building my own sealed box and stuffing it with poly foam, it sounds like i have a whole trunk full of subs. I have had good luck with JBL in the past, and this sub definitly did not disappoint me.
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| November 11, 2011 | Good Sound Quality |
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Review by
Matt from Florida
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I am very happy with this sub. I'm running mine in a 0.4 cubic foot sealed box and she shakes the rearview mirror on 150 watts. I would recommend this to anyone who wants high quality bass in their vehicle, but doesn't have a lot of room for a big box.
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| November 6, 2011 | jbl gto 8 |
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atom from dallas
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Great sub for the price. They are replacing my Cadence CVL 500's. I ordered one to give it a try on my Sundown amp. Loved the sound so much, I ordered another. I recommend this sub to my friends for SQ, being a SQ type of Guy. Thanks JBL!
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| November 2, 2011 | nice! |
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Review by
Richard from Imperial, CA
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I replaced the factory subwoofer in my 2010 Jeep Wrangler with a JBL GTO804, an 8" spacer ring, a Dual mono amp, and it sounds great! I was pleasantly surpirsed at how deep the bass was for such a small speaker. I originally wanted a larger subwoofer, but decided to keep the factory appearance by using the existing subwoofer enclosure. Overall, I'm very satisfied with this little beast and I get to keep all of my cargo space. The only gripe I have with this speaker are the binding posts. They stick up too high and it's difficult to get the speaker in to the enclosure.
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| September 17, 2011 | Fabulous little sub |
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Kevin from St. Catharines, ON, Canada
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I bought two of these to give my system some needed depth. I don't have tons of power running to them but for a little sub they pound very hard. I'm not looking to shake my fillings out or anything like that but one would have done the job. Though I couldn't find the recommended box specks on the Sonic site they are in a smallish ported box 10"x10"x24" and sound amazing. I can't see anyone not loving them!
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| June 22, 2011 | Another great JBL product |
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Review by
Varatos from Gadsden, AL
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I was very satisfied with this sub. I used it for a rear-deck replacement sub, so it was in an infinite baffle enclosure. After sound dampening the rear deck this sub performs beautifully. Because the resonance frequency of this sub is so low you almost have to use some kind of High Pass Filter around 30 or 28Hz, but because of this low resonance it produces low frequencies very easily. In my experience this sub will handle more power than it is rated to handle and has held up well to my use. It should perform very well (and probably better) in a box. Overall, to be only an 8 inch sub, it performs and sounds like a 12 inch or better. I am extremely satisfied.
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| April 29, 2011 | wish i could get more of these or be sponsored by JBL |
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jucie from gonzales la
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These are some baddd 8's I'm so sad I blew two of them with a 1200 watt amp though they were the best speakers I ever invested in they was slammin moving my dash in a single cab chevy
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| March 23, 2009 | Great product !!!!!!!!!!! |
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Tim from Mooresburg, TN
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I have 4 of little wonders being pushed by a R.F.150, 25 to Life amp. These will blow your mind. I've owned RF 15's, RF 12's, CV 12's, and Kicker comp 10's in the past and these little baby's rank up there with the best of them. I have them in a custom vented box built to factory specs. The Punch 150's birth sheet max watts was 2880 and the gain is almost wide open and they will handle it with ease. I built a box to fit in the back of a Durango, It is low enough that i can still haul stuff in the back but loud enough to turn heads. Great buy and a great product.
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| November 25, 2012 | Great value ! |
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Review by
remysylva from St-Laurent, French Guiana
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Trčs bon article et de bonne facture ! Bon pour les caissons de petite taille.
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| November 4, 2011 | Love it |
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For from brighton MA
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I recommend this produt not only because it's a steal at the price but it works so good I have one in my car and I don't even need a box for it. It's so loud and works awesome!
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| June 17, 2010 | soooo good |
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justin from lugoff, SC
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i had 2 of these in a corolla and they pounded hard for their size, they were better than my friends 12's
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| January 10, 2010 | good product |
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etienne from Bruxelles, 0, Belgium
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a very good powerful loudspeaker
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| February 23, 2012 | Lasted 10 minutes |
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Review by
John Kerr from Boca Raton, FL
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Never have blown a woofer before, purchased two of these for a custom enclosure for my Corvette, had read the reviews, product looked great. Showed up at my installer's shop and he looked at me strange and said "nice woofers for the money, but they won't last". I figured he was being a smart ass so we went along with the install. Have an Arc Audio mini 500 powering them, 10 minutes into playing them at 1/4 volume they locked up, shorted out and blew the fuses on the amp. I have been into car audio since 1986, have never destroyed a woofer before, very disappointed, redesigning the box for a single 12.
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