That is a nice read. I am also interested in Astro-Photography so I am familiar with histogram clipping. Sounds like the same sort of thing as the sine-wave clipping, and just as bad.


For reference for this thread, I met with Green24U today to check out his setup. It is not an apples-to-apples comparison as I am using the Kenwood and he still has the stock head unit, but we are both using the stock amp. I can say that even with my botched repair job, the subwoofers in my car, powered by my stock amp and aftermarket head unit produced more sound and "oomph" than the Kickers (40CWRT672) powered by the stock amp and stock head unit in Green24U's setup. I could certainly tell that the kickers were being driven, but my assumption is that they were just not getting enough power to really distinguish themselves. The same song played in both setups would vibrate the back of the seat in my car, but just barely be felt against the back wall of his.


I also contacted the Mopar Overstock site. They do not have any more stock subwoofers and even looking across all stocking dealers in the US were not able to find any. It looks like what we have in our cars is the last of them.


With all this information at hand, I am going to try my hand at re-repairing the passenger side subwoofer in my car. It will be the cheapest solution and one that I know will sound acceptable. If that just utterly fails, the only other option I see would be to get replacement subwoofers and drive them with a dedicated amp. That will be my last resort.