Every sub company out there likes to emphasize their peak statistics, their wonder spec. A speaker is much more than a bunch of specs, it’s a combination of parts, of design experience and a system design coming together for a specific purpose. Designing for specs is an easy thing to do. Designing for real environments means you actually have to go out and build systems, test them and tweak them till the grin factor is working.

Audioque subs were built into real cars, with real bass heads gripping and ripping their volume knobs. We’ve been at this for many years. Prototype after prototype being tested to their limits, over and over until the right combination of parts shook the bloody hell out of the cars. You also have to decide what is a relevant spec, when a kick drum comes down so hard and with so much force that you have to turn around to see if the dome light it still there, well, they ain’t got a spec for that.

We do provide specs, we did run them after everything was said and done so we could fill out a spec chart. We suggest you skip the box program stuff and go to the recommended box volume charts. These are box sizes that the subs were engineered around. They went through R&D together, for high performance in moderate enclosure volumes, to get the most sound out of the smallest space, to get down low and loud.
Our specs are based on long-term usage, not peaks. All elements of the sub are designed to complement each other in order to provide the best sounding and most reliable package possible.

Audioque is not out to hype any particular spec. A single spec does not exist that ties all the variables into one tidy little number; the one size fits all mentality that some companies would like you to believe. We don’t belittle other manufacturers for their design methodology, we do what we know works best for us and our customers.