DS18 Pro-EXL 64 Speakers
Oct 2, 2025
So most of y'all know I was looking to do a system this year using a lot of Orion equipment but of course if I hear about another brand that's making waves in the car audio community I have to take a look at their products! Well it happened again so here's the DS18 speakers. Let's see how they sound in my build and if I decide to keep em!
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What's good YouTube man, it's your boy Young Dub man coming at y'all with another video.
We got another update for the channel man. Y'all see it right here man,
I did shoot a video last night with my two Rockville speakers in the front doors of the
Malibu screaming real good in that parking lot. I did show the rear deck, I still had the PRV horns
in the rear deck but they were not hooked up, that was just the two Rockville speakers.
But I did show the wood in the back of the car and I said hey the Orion's are gone,
my man Wayne got those and when I talked to Wayne and his buddy they were hyping up DS18
real heavy. So like I told y'all, hey if I was willing to let the Orion's go, obviously I gotta
be coming back with something crazy. So y'all see it right here man, this is the DS18 EXL.
I got the Pro 64's, the reason why I went with the 4-on speakers is because I got the Taran's 3k
and with that I'm gonna wire these to a 4-ohm load so I can get, I think it's just under 1200
watts RMS with that amp. But let me get these out of the box because there is a 4-pack in here,
give me just a second, they got a little bit of weight on them. But y'all see what that is man,
extremely loud and I hope to God that really is the case man because the Orion's were crazy loud
and crazy heavy. These are heavy as well but they're still not as heavy as the Orion's speakers
were. So hopefully with everything going to the rear deck I'll be able to do enough modifications
to get that going man. But right now the focus on this video is this here, the DS18, we like it loud.
I hope that these things perform to all the hype because there has been a ton of hype on these
speakers man. So let me get them open, let's take a look and see what we got going here.
Got the little insulation deal to kind of let you know what the cutout needs to look like.
For me that doesn't really matter because like I said I already cut the wood and
anything that needs to be modified from there I'll go ahead and get that going man. But
like I said this is 6.5 inch mid-range loudspeakers, they're 4-ohm. The most important
thing on there to me is that 34 ounce magnet. Like I said they 300 watts rms as well. My phone
keeps chirping because I got it sitting right under my camera man. But the main thing is 300 watts rms
and then like I said the magnet, the weight, that wood board is 3-4 MDF is real sturdy man.
But like I said with doing four of those it gets heavy man. Well it got real heavy but
let me get this out the box. It's kind of sitting down. You'll see that cardboard over there is
kind of sitting down in it. I might have to take it all the way out the box and go from the back
which I'm going to do. I'll just take it out the rear and let's get her out the plastic. She still
got some hell of five magnets on her man. That's still one hell of five magnet. Got the red candy
paint man. That's nice man. If I could get this all over the car I'd be golden man. But there it is.
Y'all know my thing man. Usually like what I say if it ain't in some wood it could go. With the
orions they were in the wood but like I said at the same time they were crazy loud. They were
heavy as ever man. Trust believe me those things are heavy. This is heavy too but just that little
bit of weight difference and also this here. This is another reason why I decided to go ahead and
go with these ds18 speakers because they had these push terminals and with the orions like I said in
the previous video a while back I don't have a soldering gun. I do need to change that and make
sure I get me one but right now since I don't have it and I'm trying to get done by next week like I
said I want to I want to be done by Cinco de Mayo. Really just depends on how much work I can get done
this week but the push terminals with the way that I have to run the wire and then plus I'm
using 12 gauge wire that's just gonna help a lot more so. You're gonna see some candy red paint.
Probably won't be able to see that ds18 logo because like I said it'll be sitting down in the
wood but plenty of venting. I got the venting in the back. This is like it's raised so I don't
know if that's this like it's not stamped on there it's kind of like uh I don't know if you
can scratch it off or not on it I don't know if it's just in the material but it's it's raised
on there man but that's nice man but 600 watts that's the um uh the peak power number uh but
like I said got a four pack here 300 watts rms gonna get them on the tar amps um depends on what
today today is my mom's birthday man so I don't know if the family got something planned or not
so I don't know if I'm gonna be busy or how they're gonna do that man but uh you know obviously
we'll figure it out and I'll go from there and uh whatever work I can get done on the car I'll get
done but they got it here on the side of the box engineered well designed and engineered in the
USA made in PRC I'm not sure I don't know too much about uh ds18 other than them being based
out of Miami Florida um and then like I said there's been a ton of hype as far as um what kind
of performance these things doing with I guess the exl supposed to be like their top of the line
speaker I know somebody told me they have a um a troublemaker edition that's like 2500 watts rms
and it's just extremely nuts but as far as for me man I got these push terminals that's what I
I'll get these going going in the car and see what we end up doing man so y'all know the deal
man same old thing any questions comments concerns go ahead and hit me up man I'll try to go ahead
and get back to y'all man but uh the main thing right now is keep working till I get it done uh
once I get the mids and highs out the way then I'll go ahead and get the subs installed and
uh it'll switch from doing these unboxing update videos to installation videos man but
I got something else maybe a couple more pieces to unbox and then go from there man but uh right
now like I said keep working keep getting it done every day I'll try to get something installed in
the car uh especially these like I said I got a four pack here uh there's tons more speakers in
this well three more speakers in this box but uh y'all get to seeing that real soon man so
y'all know the deal man it's your boy y'all dub stay tuned make sure y'all subscribe uh still like
I said I got something crazy planned for when I get to a thousand man I'm gonna do a nice little
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you hit the subscribe button I don't try to bug y'all too much with questions and all that type
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always been my thing we working man so y'all just stay tuned y'all see these four of them
rear deck real soon mess your boy on dub I'm out