6.5 inch Tang Band W6-1139SIF Subwoofer Review

[MustangShane]

I wanted to do a review on this sub to answer a couple of questions I had prior to my purchase, but they were unanswered or inaccurate. First off, I have a limited amount of space in my F150 for a sub. So I wanted to find the most compact sub with a frequency response down in the 30's. This sub fits every aspect of my search, but I wish it would handle a little more juice. It handles 100W max, 50W RMS. I do expect this to be REAL watts, not a sub that is rated at am extremely high frequency. This sub can be had for around 50 US Dollars. I picked mine up through www.parts-express.com but I have seen these on Amazon and Ebay as well. This review is a work in progress so stay tuned. Now to some photos.

The sub, in all of her glory.

As you can tell, this is not a lightweight. I've had 8's that didn't weigh this much.

I also measured it at 4.3 ohms.

This was a confusing measurement I got. Tang Band advertised this as having a 4.33 inch mounting depth. I measure 3.875 inches as what I consider to be the mounting depth.

I suppose I had better resnap this photo again next time. I measured this at a total of 7 inches across. Looks like I moved the measuring tape a bit when I snapped the pic.

I also got 6.5 inches, center to center, between adjacent mount holes.

The outer diameter of the rolled surround is 6 inches.

There is a vent system that goes all the way through the magnet. This is something I really found impressive. It goes all the way through to the cone.

Looking through to the back side of the cone.

 

[MustangShane]

I just ordered another one of these. Right now I have it in a sealed box, but I'd like to make a t-line box for the 2 subs to hang out.

 

[RangerATX]

Looking forward to this.

 

[MustangShane]

This is the sub I've already got in a sealed fiberglass box. I really wish the mic wouldn't distort, because this sounds really clean. On a side note, I've had this amp since about 1996, and it has always had plenty of power, and very clean. I noticed that when I used it for this application, it seemed to not be as powerful as before. So I got a Zapco Z100 that I replaced it with. I took it apart a couple of days ago and found the 3 big caps are all leaking all over the board, and one of the poly film caps had exploded. Somehow the old thing kept working.

Here's the amp pushing the sub.
[video=youtube;MZXgcpoOFcI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXgcpoOFcI[/video]

 

[MustangShane]

One more.

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[RangerATX]

Hits pretty hard for only being a 6.5"

 

[MustangShane]

Yes it does. These little puppies are starting to get noticed. This video is a 5 1/4" in a t-line.

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[RangerATX]

That's a huge box for such a little sub.

 

[MustangShane]

Yeah it is. All of these people are putting them in huge boxes, and they perform extremely well. Unfortunately, I do not have that luxury.