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I am DEFINETLY in love with the technical side of things as much as I am the music. I really want to do a 3-way as stated but I want to know what I am doing first in respect to tuning and different alignments. Believe me you guys will be the first to know when I start designing my three way. You are correct Seth, the 3'er's have some limitations up high. I may add a passive tweeter for the time being until I get more processing capabilitys. that is the other factor holding me back. I love how sweet/head cracking a good home stereo sounds, SO if I had to decribe what it is I am trying to accomplish in this setup it would be to have that super crisp, clean, head cracking sound. I realize right away that to create that sound in a car is going to take some serious time and effort. I know I am creating an illusion. I am open to different recipes, and am someone that will follow you Old Bulls advice. So lets start talking processing for a 3-way+sub, I think that would be a good next step.

I fucking hate thieves.

Thanks for the input Sean. I will take a little more time setting everything this time around and not be so careless with the volume. As far as the 3"ers output, they do great on axis. The beauty of the Aura playing so high is that they add so much relizam to the 3"ers. thanks for the acknowledging my persevenance. I won't stop until I am a Master. Jared

This is another reason I have found that I like aluminum cones. The Aura's are also vented under the spider and the pole. I know I killed the one Aura with a clipped sig from the studio boosted music. I think I had the gain set pretty good, (by ear) I just pushed them with the wrong sig. Believe me I have learned ALOT from my recent experience. No I did not use a DMM at any point. Everyone seems to have different opinions on that on. NOW I shall start reading about this dynamic impedance.

Just think how many farts have been JAMMED into that poor seat.....

I plan on building a mold and fiberglassin' me up a couple of them there inserts. I will take pictures. I thought according to hoffmans law, with a small enclosure power handling goes up, but I don't even know if hoffmans law applys to midbasses?

I Do, I Do.

Some drivers are over priced for only marginally better results if any. I don't recommend buying something just because its expensive, but because it fits your needs and has good build quaility.

Very Nice!!! don't forget the finished pics.

I can tell its going to be one boring day at work, by boring I mean profitless. ITS a good thing its Friday for ME!!!

What is the bridged output? Beautiful work as usaul Jacob!! I shall give you alot of my money someday....

I just pulled the trigger on the last available Aura!!! Shipping from Canada is a MoFo. 40 bucks for the one driver. Now I just need to level match the gains better and not drive them so hard and clip them with boosted sounding music. If I can't find any pre built sealed pod inserts I will just have to build my own, but will like the increased power handling and thicker midbass.

Here's a good read on passive crossovers if anyone has some time to kill. http://sound.westhost.com/lr-passive.htm

The passive definetly takes alot of the tuning work out of it for you, I think they usaully have the circuitry to smooth out the FR also.

I vote all in if you've got the cake, simply because you will be happier with the results and the equipment will retain value better.

The one with the Alpine was a pre built enclosure. I just put a few spacers on the back of the box (1x4 across top and bottom) and put a false back wall on the box, this made running and hidding wires easy also. I was always going to use these boards as a template for a cleaner false wall but never was quite happy everything SO it just became temperary. I DID NOT use any foam with this setup, just really tight fits around the front. the box had a 2x4 under the back edge and a 1x4 under the front to get it level in the trunk and as tall as the opening. I cut the 2x4 the width of the trunk and screwed it to the bottom of the box before put the box in the trunk. This made screwing the box to the trunk floor real easy and gave me a leadger along the bottom to screw my false wall to. I just creased the original floor so it hindged along the back of the box. On the BTL, thats a whole nother story.....check out my build log, its long though so just skim the pictures.

Do you guys know if anyone makes these for a 10"?

The funny thing is 80% of the Hondas in America where built on american soil. I wonder where your Silverado was built, oh wait, I already know, MEXICO......

I was raised a Ford guy, but I love all classic iron. I think IF I had the choice of any post 60's car it would be a 'Cuda. Anyways heres a Dart I came across the other day, Who doesn't love old skool Mopar.

There is a forest fire about 10 miles from me thats been burning for about a week. I wake up this morning and the smoke has really settled in the valley. Smells like aspen trees.

WooHoo, I bet your happy to finally hear them beasts!!

The Truck is lookin' sickly brotha'!!

You just need a 455 Super Duty!!

After several days of listening to the Aura in the different alignments I will have to say I was lying when I said there was little difference. I am pretty impressed with the Aura in the .25 cu ft box, the midbass is nice and thick. I could almost go without a sub, ALMOST. I have been searching for a driver that models similiar to the Aura but has more xmax, I found this one but want you speaker guru's opinions. This driver models very well but I want to make sure I am not overlooking something. http://www.solen.ca/pdf/css/sdx10.pdf