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Finally got my hands on the XLS-802 today and have to say, it handles the 4ohm bridged load fairly well, much better than I was expecting. I had it playing music at quite a high level for about an hr and a half and the amp barely seemed warm.
Now to re-familiarise myself with the DRPA...

Theoretically if he can clip the amp then the input source is providing a signal with enough power.
How are the subs connected? is the amp bridged? have you used the subs with another similar wattage amp before and got better results?

I can't seem to find any below $80 + shipping on eBay, are there any other places that I should look?

It would be a LOT of work to port my current box, i'd like the port to be on the front and then it would have to go in one the corners around the sub with a max of a 4" port. It would end up having about an 8db increase in volume at 20hz and would require a HPF at roughly 16.5hz and to find one that accurate, it would need to be digital, so I think i'd be looking at $100+ + shipping.

I'm not too bothered with that at the moment anyway, The sealed enclosure does what I want (makes everything rumble) to a reasonable extent anyway.
I'm quite comfortable with the DRPA and have used and calibrated it quite a few times. The only thing I dislike about it is the "pop" if you accidentally turn it off before the amps.

I wish they employed someone like you at my high school, everything is just dumped on the eldest member of the tech crew and a few ex students who volunteer their time. Sounds like you do some pretty decent sized gigs!

Yeah it is WinISD, I can see how it would react in a certain ported enclosure but the thing is that I don't own a variable high pass filter (I have a fixed 30hz but I have tried it and don't like it) or a crossover that would work. the DRPA is something that I'm borrowing

If I were to go ported, I would need to either find a HPF or to be super careful with the volume in movies with LFE content :S

@Dakos
Yeah I'm planning to have about a week of tinker time to adjust it to something that I like. I'm just going to go off what sounds nice across a few different varieties of songs.
From memory, it's actually two different tweeters, one is a dome tweeter and one is a two inch standardish looking tweeter (looks like a small midrange type design) and they are both on different outputs of the crossover so I assume that they are getting different frequency's.
Yeah I am familiar with that, I don't actually own a smart variable crossover so that was another reason why I went sealed over ported. It's not my DRPA, it's just one that I can get my hands on for a few weeks.
Thanks haha, I actually used no power tools (no circ saw's or anything, didn't even have a battery drill for doing the screws up at the time) other than a jigsaw for the curves and fiddly bits.

I wish I still had access to a EV P3000, makes my sub rock hard haha
I'm going to have to think of something elaborate to manage the power for this, there will also be 700ish watts of LED's that will need to be powered + 500-1000w of other electronics.