Is HiFonics a good brand?
 

Thinking I want to scale down my system from 2 12's (in a huge box) to just a single 10" in powered enclosure. Found a good deal on a HiFonics setup but I dont know much about the brand. Can anyone lay some knowledge down? Thanks.

i dig their brutus amps but havent messed with the subs much

...coming from a guy with a high end stereo in his car and no first-hand experience with hifonics speakers at all...



Anytime you start talking about a 10" or larger sub for <$60 that is some seriously low-end "made in china! berry good qwarrity!" too-low-to-be-good price range territory. BUT if you don't try to rattle your car to pieces on a regular basis it might be ok. Probably if it lasts a week it will last years at healthy (not hearing-damaging) listening levels.



When I started looking into an answer to your question I already had a bad connotation associated with hifonics as a brand but, I have been out of car audio for a long time. I went to Amazon to read some reviews, and there are lots of people happy with their Hifonics subs . . . and a distressingly high number of reviewers who blew their hifonics subs with low powered amps in short time. If you have the money to spare, I'd say give them a shot for an entry-level system. If you can swing double the price in a month or three, do that instead.

I have HiFonics in the Genesis. Just a small 10" sub with a 300 watt amp. It wont win any sound competitions or blow the windows out, but it sounds great inside the car and that's all I care about.

You can blow a high end sub with a low power amp. Distortion kills subs and speakers. I've always "over powered" my subs and speakers and have never blown one. The only set of speakers I blew was when I was 16 and didn't know better and underpowered the speakers and maxed the amp out. If your sub is rated at 300, get a 400 or 500 rms amp to push them. The idea is you balance the gains and don't max them out, reducing the amps chance of distorting the signal.

I would put them in the same bucket as Boss, MTX, JVC, and Sony (the lower end stuff).