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If your plugs/wires have over 100k I'd replace them anyway... Well that's the problem, I have no idea. I bought the truck with 158k, it now has 180k.

Oh, I signed a lease yesterday for a new place to stay starting in August. It's amazing how little housing there is in this town, must be why there are 2-3 more apartment complexes going up right now, even despite the economy. But I called 4-5 places in search of a 1 br without any luck. Then I called this place and they had one left. I jumped on it. It was even more awesome because according to the attractive young coed that showed the model apartment, this complex is where a lot of young singles or slightly older people go to escape the college kid complexes. So there are basically no college kids at this place. Peace and quiet! I wasn't too thrilled about living in a big apartment complex (in part due to not being able to listen to the HT loudly), but now I'm kinda excited to move in and live by myself for once. And the units are nice, and quite big. 860 sq. feet. Biggest one bedroom I think I've seen in town, and relatively quite cheap while actually being one of the nicest places. Another bonus was that they said I could start moving in early, before my August 1st date, because nobody is in the house now, and not pay any extra rent for it! I'm like man is this place just too good to be true or what? That will allow the move to be done at my own pace over the course of a week. I hate 12 hour days of moving.

Later today I'm going to work out until I can't move my arms any more. Then just recover tomorrow watching movies and playing games.

Have planned to wash and wax the Explorer today. I need to get motivation to do it now while it's relatively cooler, and not raining. But I feel drained. Already crossed one thing off of the list, and that was to check the spark plugs. I was only able to get to one because the others were either hidden or too tight for unscrewing in the space available for the ratchet, but it looked to be in pretty good shape, somewhat surprisingly (and almost a little disappointing, I was kinda hoping it would need a tune up to see if I could increase mileage a little).

Definitely. You have adequate subs, you just need to give them a proper box. 2.5-2.8 cubes isn't big enough for both of those subs in the same enclosure. It needs to be around 4 cubes, and definitely lower the tuning frequency down to around 32 hz.

A signal is a signal. It's just that the power is lower on RCAs.

Burp each one with a mic on.

What? I've never even heard of this. What goes on in your part of the country? Haha.

lucky bastard! this week is killing me. wifes parents are both home. all the family came into town and they aren't working... I am though. what's worse is the wife is doing 4 10's for the rest of the year. It just twists the knife in me. Haha yeah, but depending on the office 10 hours in it can be like torture. You wouldn't think it, but those extra two hours at 5-7:00 really drag on. That's why I didn't think I'd like switching to that schedule.

I would say just get a single 15". You'll save a bunch of money that way, and I think it should be loud enough.

Off today after my 15 hour day on Wednesday. Yay!

haha that made me chuckle.

Head units clip just like amplifiers, because they are amplifiers as well. Why wouldn't his head unit clip? All do. We set our gains at 3/4 volume because that's about the point that most head units begin to clip. He may be right about 59 never clipping, and he may be wrong. It depends on if he set the gain at 59 with a 0 db tone. Then no, nothing could be louder than that tone and it should never clip. But if he set it with just some random song, chances are another song was recorded at a higher level and it could clip.

That amp will be sufficient. The sub's RMS is only 1000, remember. There is absolutely no NEED to overpower a sub. I've had 200 watts on my 1000 watt sub before and there was absolutely no difference except the loudness, as Adrian said. But then again, realize that there is a point of diminishing returns. You won't see the same output gain going from 1000 watts to 2000 watts on that sub compared to going from 200 to 400 watts.

To be a smartass, you calculate the distance from the floor with a ruler. But really, Adrian has it. It obviously needs to be more than the xmax of the sub, but a few inches is good. I'd say basically as much as you can afford to get the airspace you need under the seats, because there will be some sound effects from having the sub too close to the floor, or any surface (even back firing into a trunk for example).

The Mag is a pure SQ-based sub. It gets decently loud, but I imagine the Icon gets louder. But I also imagine the Mag has lower distortion. Which isn't always a good thing, a lot of people like the sound of a little distortion, mainly because they're so used to it.

It is clear overexcursion. Plus it's not even impossible to damage a subwoofer above tuning with enough power. There are a few ways to damage it.

Does anybody besides me think this dude grossly overpaid if he gave the $1600 listed on the window? http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...showtopic=29042

Try taking the amp out from under the seat, then turn the truck on and let it play. See if it turns off. That'll let you know if it is overheating under the seat. It might have tighter tolerances to trip the overheating protection circuitry than your MTX did. Or poorer cooling mechanisms.

Yes, do that. Whatever you said.

define "decent" Oh, I don't know. Not horrible? Works fine, maybe just not all the features? Doesn't need time alignment, 1/3 octave EQ, or anything like that. Ha. We're just adding a sub to stock interiors. I'll sell ya 2200+ for double that. It's not for me, it's for my little brother. He's 16. So not much of a budget. I told him I'd find him amp + wiring for 225. I have a blown amp that I can get refurbished for $150, so that's my fall back option.

Does anybody have a decent head unit they'd let go for under $100? Or a 600-1000 watt amp for under $200?

Come to Kansas. All the summer you want.

I know I will. Maybe not on that day, but opening weekend anyway.

That's because you're good country folk. More and more people don't realize that's how people are outside the cities. People are different (*better*) out there. At least in terms of helping people.