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If I buy a 500w plate amp for say $250 (cheap!), a driver for $200, and spent $50 for enclosure material, I would have to build it in about 4 hrs to keep it under what I paid for the SVS. It would probably take ME 30 or 40 hours to build it, making it way too expensive for me.
Sounds like my DIY rig, except my amp was a slightly cheaper and slightly lower powered, but with a considerably more expensive driver, and the enclosure was about $150 to have done for me based on specs given. [I cannot make a good box - lol - I've failed too many times to get the extension right. Tuned ports are HARD to do.]
