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I am a big fan of ram mounts, they can take a beating. I use one on both my snowmobiles to mount a GPS. For testing aiming that is a stellar idea. You can tell how robust they are by this mount. And yes, I beat the snot out of the sled. Airborn it goes!

Actually those pictures are the Dcon replacement. The Gcon replacement is already in production, 12" only at the moment, 10" will come after.

I *think* that the ID xs-28 tweeters are actually pretty good? These still work work fine, and if I can avoid having to buy a whole new set of tweeters, I'd rather keep what I have. When I had the XS components complete with the XS mids, Tweets, and xovers, it seemed to sound pretty darn good. Those XS 6.5's are expensive to replace though, and that's why I bought the eminence that I have now which are going buh-bye. They don't sound nearly as good as the ID's did, but they play loud. I assume the FI N.7's are probably good speakers? But I don't know. I was looking at the PRV originally simply because of the power handling and the cost. Now that I see the FI's are $150/pair vs each, that is something I'd be fine with. I can afford $150/pair, but not $300/pair like I originally thought they were. I know that FI makes good stuff, but I haven't seen any reviews of the N.7's. It seems that these are SQ CAR speakers and not PA speakers like a lot of the other offerings. From what I understand, PA speakers are generally louder and allow for higher powered amps, but don't sound nearly as good? That would make me lean toward the FI. I just need to verify that those 7" speakers are going to fit. If they won't, I'll have to go back to a 6-6.5", and then again I'll need some help since the PRV are no good. A friend recommended the Crescendo's, not sure which one, or the Evil? My ideal options then would be the Fi N.7 along with my current ID XS-28 tweets for the front stage. Then I need to find some 6x9's to fill my rear doors. I may end up running those off the head unit for now, and then maybe get a compact 50-100w small 2CH to power those in the future. Again, I want a good value that will work well for the rear speakers without breaking my bank. As far as processing, right now I have the OEM head unit running into a JL Audio Clean Sweep CL441DSP to flatten the factory EQ, then the front channels run into a Audio Control DQT 1/3 octave digital EQ. People have told me that this EQ is junk, but it's what I have, and with 1/3 octave plus a couple of parametrics built into it, it is going to have to work I can't afford to buy another new EQ on top of the other items I need to put this together. The subwoofers and rear channels we're just coming out flat from the Clean Sweep and into the amps without any further processing. To go active on the front stage, I believe that I need to get another active Crossover since the crossovers on the PDX-F6 limit to high pass to 400hz, which I would think is far to low for the Tweeters. So right now I'm in the market for some sort of quality crossover in order to setup the active front stage. Any recommendations that are good without costing a fortune? And again, with those ID tweeters on the Fi n.7 mids, where about would the tweeter hp need to kick in? I have already spent a lot of money (for me, this is a lot of money. I'm not rich) on the current amps, subwoofers, etc. Add to that the $450 I spent on the new SoundDigital subwoofer amp, plus the money I need to spend now - $150 for the Fi door speakers, $???.?? On some sort of crossover, $???.?? On rear 6x9s, $???.?? On more wire and cables, etc. This will be the most money I've spent on any car stereo. I know that it's not going to be anywhere even close to what a lot of guys have into there systems, but to me it's a lot of money and it's what I can afford, so I am proud of it. I just want to update it and improve it a little bit with this new stuff and have something that is going to sound pretty good and play pretty loud. And to sum this up, I need help with: - knowing that I would be making a good choice in the FI N.7's for the front doors, and if I cant make those fit, a recommendation for some 6-6.5" speakers that sound good and can take the power and stay in that $150ish area. -that my ID XS-28 tweeters don't suck and will work well with the FI 7's and active power -recommendation for a active cross over to allow me to run my fronts actively. I think that I just need an active 2-way cross over for this? The sub amp has it's own built in crossover, unless it would work better to get a 3-way and use that for tweets, mids, subs? -recommended cross over freq for the front tweeters and mids -recommendation on some affordable good 6x9s for my rear doors. Thanks guys for all of your help. I appreciate you guys taking your time and sharing your knowledge to help me get this together the right way since so many of you have so much more experience and knowledge on this stuff. I can't express my appreciation. Im sorry that my posts are so long. I have a hard time trying to get everything that I'm trying to say into a short post. I'm just not good at it. I've also attached a few pictures of what I have now. Those 6" ID speakers that I built a 6x9 adapter for are no longer being used. Since one blew, I replaced them in my front doors with some Eminence crappy PA speakers because of how much the replacement ID XS speakers cost.

Easiest pods I have ever built. lol