TonyRomo

The local shops have gotten a bad rep for bad installs and ripping people off. I just do my own now. It's not that hard to do.

I'm an older guy, just turned 40 and have gone through many installs in my earlier years. I've had some good installs by shops and I've had total crap installs. Well I wouldn't say the installs were crap but the bass setup was. I would say the worst problem I have ran into with installs is the box builds were wrong for the speakers of choice. I have always bought quality subs for my installs but often the boxes were build wrong. I've even pissed of installs by telling them to rebuild the box because the bass sucked. That even happened in a Camaro once, where bass should be easy to do. I've also learned that less can mean more too. Subs need plenty of box space. Sometimes having 2 subs instead of just one sub means crappier bass because they are lacking sufficient air space. I do like to brag on myself. I don't let the shops install anything for me anymore. I do it all, even the box build and I did quite good with the last box I built for my truck. 1 single Jl 12 with 2 cubic feet air space and it sounds great. The only problem I got is I've got too much amp for that sub. So I may sway it out for a Kicker CVX. Anyone else have had problems with crappy shop installs?

Yah I meant w3. They did make a w4 way back in the day but changed teh name to w1, w3, w6. It used to be w2, w4, w6.

Last year I traded locally with this guy for a 12w4. The sub is in my 2006 Chevy single cab truck. Box is roughly 2 cubic feet slot ported tuned at 32hz. The sub sounds perfect for the enclosure. Very very good and accurate sound. My only problem is that it's being pushed by a RF Amp with a birth sheet of 926 rms watts. Definite overkill for the sub. So I've turned it way down. Even at that, if I crank it at the deck and certain frequencies the sub sounds like it's being crunched. So I've thought about swapping the sub for a higher wattage subs. A JL W 6 looks to be to deep for the setup. So I checked around and it appears Kicker makes the CVX with very similar box specs and about the same mounting depth. Looks to be perfect. So how is the CVXfor sound quality? I know it's going to hit harder because it can handle the power my amp is putting out but I was wondering about sound quality.