Skar Audio EVL-18 D4 18" 2500 Watt Max Power Dual 4 Ohm Car Subwoofer

I've been into car audio, and building enclosures for more than 30 years. So this time around, I wanted to do something different.... Passive radiators. I decided to build a 5 cubic foot box, with two Dayton 15" passive radiators, and I used 150gms of weight, on each of them, for a tuning of 30.48 hz. I'm giving this sub woofer right about 1300 wts. So the morning before I put it in the truck, I told myself, Okay, if this sub "only" hits really deep bass, or bass heavy music well.... so be it. I can always get my SQ fix in my car, with my little 8" sub. But right from the moment I fired it up, I was absolutely stunned ! Not only does it make ridiculous low constant bass notes (as one might expect from an 18" sub with good power), but much more surprisingly, it also plays such tight, snappy kick drums, guitar bass, old school rock, and stuff that doesn't even have much bass ! Every other sub woofer enclosure that I have ever built, would start to sound like garbage, if you pushed too hard, where there was not a lot of bass signal, but not this one ! So, in spite of the fact that this thing plays techno / electronic 20-25hz bass so well (fun for demos), I've actually been listening to more old school stuff... just because I can ! The point is though, it plays everything great ! Whatever my mood, this sub woofer is down with it :) I can see this sub woofer setup staying around for a long time, while I work on several other aspects of my system... sound deadening, electrical upgrades, DSP tuning, etc. So, long story short, out of probably 30 enclosures I have built, for everything from 8"s to 18"s, this is absolutely the best, most musical setup I have ever created :) But I mean really, who uses an 18" sub woofer because they are shooting for SQ ? So freaking ecstatic with the outcome :) Thank you so much Skar :)

Ok, here's the deal. The subs are a good purchase, but it will be the last item we ever purchase from skar. And in the past year, there has been several thousands of dollars of skar equipment sent to my door. It's not that thier products are horrible - it's thier warranty department that sucks. If the products break, you stand a good chance of them making the determination that the product was somehow 'abused' because of crappy workmanship, so they deny the warranty. For that reason, buyer beware.

A $300 to $350 kicker or $265 Skarr . In my opinion skarr wins. The sound quality on the skarr sounds better. The skarr also looks beefier. Now don't get me wrong kickers are no joke. The skarrs have a deeper boom then my kickers. I don't regret down grading from an expensive kicker to a less expensive skarr. These skarrs are no joke. I'm running 2 skarr 3500 for 4 skarr 18s evl. And let me tell ya...no disappointment at all. Don't let the price fool you. It's an amazing sub.

I used the subwoofer for my car.

Had two evil 18 d4 installed and Had only 6-8 hours of play time and woofer toast on Skar 2000 watt amp. I called SKAR and their answer was that the amp was overpowered. I’ve had 2-10” JL 10W3’s now for 11 years, I’ve played them very hard almost daily and they’re still as good as new. Very disappointing to see SKARs poor customer service. Never again from me!