KU40

Some people swear by there Monster cables. I wonder if there is any truth to there boner. No. For everything I've done I just buy pretty much the cheapest stuff. wire is wire, no need to pay for the name on the jacket. RCAs can be different though, but not because of the quality of wire. It usually comes down to the ends and how well they stay connected to both the cable and the RCA input on the amp/HU/whatever. and yeah, $140 is way too much for a 1/0 kit.

There is normally a switch to turn the low pass filter on. Then you turn the crossover frequency to whatever you want the low pass filter to be at. The subsonic should have its own on switch and frequency dial. You'd probably want to set that to 25-30 hz.

right. Your amp doesn't have a low pass crossover? You can use both the subsonic and low pass on the amp, it's not one or the other.

why do you think you need a 2 ohm load? Because your amp box says 2 ohm stable? Read the fine print, and you'll likely see that 2 ohm stable is in stereo. Which means it's stable to 4 ohms when bridged, which is what you would want to do if you have a 2 ohm DVC sub to run on it.

5.5 cubes for 2 18s is way too little space. Even 8 cubes is too little IMO. You need a bigger box overall.

I've ran wire both ways. There really isn't anything wrong with either if done properly, and both can be done wrong. The time I ran the power wire under the car I bought some extra plastic sheeting and put it over the wire, just for extra protection.

Not a bad box. The tuning is a bit high for my tastes, though. But maybe not yours.

It's ok to be bias. feel free to have your opinion. That may be true and it may not. One good thing about our society is that if companies raise prices to make up for losses, people will find the product cheaper from another company, perhaps a smaller, start-up type place. Or mom and pop shop. Which that would be good for us. But if the big company has a large market share or near monopoly that probably wouldn't happen. People would just bitch and moan about it. But really I think it's a decent idea. People who make that much money deserve it, IMO. Are they working a lot harder than you/me to earn 100 times the pay? In 99% of cases, no. But for companies I think it's tough. We don't want to penalize those that expand and grow because that's what the market is all about. But then it's those companies that make that much just by having a huge market share or what have you and gouge the consumer that I hate. I have this thing about always seeing situations from both sides and hardly ever being able to decide which is better. It's a curse.

Yep. Bring the spammers down!

Well I almost got hit on my bike today. I was crossing a street (with the walk signal) and a lady turned left right in front of me. Had to test the limits of my brakes, and only my superpower of being able to anticipate stupid people's actions saved me I think. I hope it ruins her night and she feels really bad for at least a day.

WINNAR!!1 haha wtf? Is he hoping to save the car or the tree? haha

That was obvious.

Use at least 1/0 gauge power wire

if the external crossover is a subsonic filter, then there is obviously no difference. If the external crossover is a low pass filter, then your amp should have one, so no difference again (unless different slopes).

I'm not sure I follow the comparison. Those are two very different boxes and would yield very different results. I would understand more if the tunings were similar. Is that 8 cubes total or per sub? What are you after with this setup (lows, loud, efficient, etc)?

I always remove my faceplate when I take it to a shop.

you don't. If it's like most class A/B 2 channels, you can bridge the amplifier and put a 4 ohm load on it, which is what your sub would be if you wire the coils in series.

That brings back the memories.

hmm I really like that.

the gf and i were discussing something to this nature last night. You all had to do matrices, right? Well we had to learn how to do them by hand.......why? why would you EVER be in a situation where you had to solve a matrices problem and you wouldn't have access to a calculator? Saw V?

wow. gettin rich this year

That's why I asked if the knobs wouldn't turn it either up or down.

Looks awesome. I've always thought about living in the mountains. Just not ones like those where people drive on the wrong side of the road. That might be dangerous on those narrow mountain roads!

Two things my parents did and it worked. 1) If I wouldn't eat something, I had no alternatives but to be hungry 2) Once it was on my plate I sat at the table until the plate was clean. I was there a long time, but my brother won that competition as he slept overnight at the table a couple of times. Obviously being consistent and in control are the most important things. Yep. Quite a few times I sat at the table for over an hour after everybody else had left because I didn't want to eat my fried chicken. Now I love it. I think bribing is about the worst thing to do because then they learn that they can get something good if they put up a fight for anything. *I don't have kids*

damn I bet that's fun to drive. What kind of yield did you get?