Is pride audio a good speaker brand for loudness and quality sound?

[Boominburban]

What do you find so funny with my answer @Tahoe12 ??

 

[Water Bear]

Underpowering subs and relying on the subs to withstand abuse catches up with you. Would you put a 2.5K amp on a Zv5 sundown at 2 ohms?
Either feed them clean power or expect to clip a bit when searching for that little bit extra. 5yrs?.. they sound very durable to me.

Funny you mention this. I been running a single Nightshade 12 at 2 Ohm on ~3k for 21 months now (though not always at that wattage). Just pulled it to inspect and, low and behold, the terminals are coming apart. This sub has been through some **** though. I try to immediately catch clipping, subsonic issues, below-tune playing, etc, but sometimes the sub eats it for a few seconds.

Pride subs are nasty 5 inch voice coils they just cost too much as far as sq speakers I'm not sure haven't seen any but I've been in 2 different builds with their 15s and both hit hard.

5" coils? Good lord. That's gotta be some moving mass right there. I guess there's no reason you couldn't run one of those on a humongous amp at high impedance within it's linear response range but...yeah not exactly "sound quality first."

 

[Boominburban]

The UFO and S5 series are both 5" coil subs, and of course not aimed at SQ. They both utilize a full carbon cone and cap with a kevlar vc former, so MMS isn't horrible. And they actually don't sound bad on normal music. Mine is a daily, and I listen to mostly 70's - 90's hard rock and metal, and it sounds good. The ST and Sv3 are 4" coils, and are great all around subs, I really liked the Sv3 subs when I ran them. The Tv3 and MT are 3" coils and are definitely more musical than the others.