Kenwood KFC-W3003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $75.00 from from a friend

Year / Model Reviewed:
 Kenwood KFC W3003

Strengths:
Good looking, sounds great, but does distort a big at high volumes.....STILL HITS HARD THOUGH

Weaknesses:
Not enough power in the sub for my amp to push.

Summary:
These are AWESOME subs i have to say for a box, amp, these two kenwood 12" subs i paid $75 and i just got a new MA Audio amp which is a 1200 watt mono block amp which if wired at 2ohms 1200 watts rms. I have it wired at 4ohms which would make it 300rms per sub and these things shake everything on my jeep cherokee. Pretty powerful subs but this bass makes me want even more although im already losing my hearing. BIG fan of these. i have these 2 12" subs in a 1.44cu ft sealed box. GREAT SUBS

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Price Paid:  $100.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
2001 kfc/w3003

Strengths:
hard hitting, crisp in small sealed box

Weaknesses:
broke up at high volume levels in large boxes

Summary:
i had these subs in truck boxes in a s10 and in a bandpass in a cav z24. I thought for the money they were worth it. Definately sounded better in the truck. They need to have a higher rms rating. i was pushing about 300 watts to each and they didn't blow. I hit 143.5 db's in a small truck box and 138.6 db's in a dual bandpass quad port box. Definately hit hard and had no trouble with rattling everything around.

Similar Products Used:
earthquake (nothing better than a quake), pyramid (junk better for target practice)

Price Paid:  $100.00 from circuit city

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2001

Strengths:
looks, abuse, and sound with right equiptment

Weaknesses:
too many idiots bought this sub and put it in a bandpass.

Summary:
it seems that these subs have a bad rap for people putting them in crappy boxes. 1. don't put in a bandpass. duh.......2. sealed boxes bring distortion to this sub unless it is outlined with insulation. 3. open port 1.5 inches sounds the best with a kenwood sub amp. stereo amps sound crappy with these subs. need at least 1.5 cubic feet in box. use big wires. if you do it correctly these subs will outperform all alpine and most mtx subs on the same level. compares close to rockford fosgate. (not z series)

Similar Products Used:
pioneer impp, rockford fosgate, mtw

Price Paid:  $100.00 from ebay

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2001

Strengths:
-

Weaknesses:
-

Summary:
what is a good smp for these subs i have two of them please email me with information at bigmudder44@aol.com

Similar Products Used:
-

Price Paid:  $100.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
 2001?

Strengths:
At Low volume, bass is the best i have ever heard from a non competition sub.

Weaknesses:
Disapointing high volume tolerance of low freqs - creates distortion.

Summary:
Decent sub, good entry level subwoofer. Its no competition one, so i dont know why these people are comparing them to MTX and Alpine. I own 2 of them and they do the job easily, running them at 160w RMS each on my amps. When the settings are correct, and headunit bass levels adjusted depending on volume, these subs bump heavily and crisply without distortion. Kills pioneers in the same rank, easily kills sony. Alpine kills this sub though - duh!

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer, Sony, Sansui, Alpine.