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don't mix drivers and sizes in the redo of your system. Just use the 12's. That massive amp would work.

ok, end rant.

Man I'm glad that week is over. the actual 40 hour HAZWOPER training wasn't bad, wearing the suits and being on tanked air was kinda fun. But the lady I was with.......ugh. She's 35 but often acted either 12 and all giddy or acting like my mother, and her mouth NEVER STOPPED. for an ENTIRE WEEK. It was "gosh this restaurant scares me" when it was a brand new place that looked and served very normal american things. I was like, wtf. She wanted to eat at the same restaurant every day. We went into a variety store with a bunch of older or secondhand type stuff and she just had this mortified look on her face the whole time. I went in for fun, but she was totally serious and "wow, this place is so tacky, and it worries and scares me." She brought ONE PAIR of socks for the trip, and we had to go to walmart to buy more because obviously she went through them in a day. I asked her "didn't you do laundry before you came?" She said "I thought I could just wear my sandals the whole time." Um, we're at training for how to properly handle hazardous material. I don't think you get to wear sandals in situations like that. She often said "did you eat some fruit for breakfast? We should have salads for lunch and be healthy. Don't forget to take your gatorade in the car. You're eating a waffle for supper? Is that allowed for you?" We'd be doing an exercize looking at a scene and radioing to a guy in another room what we saw. She'd radio something, then she'd tell me "ok, now you tell him that the one barrel is down and has a flammable placard, and it has one open bung. Then the second drum is standing up, has a toxic placard.....blah blah blah." stupid woman, I can pucking see! Not only that, but why did you waste all that breath when you could just be calling it in? Then we'd get inside and she'd tell our instructor just out of the blue "Nick did a really good job at looking for things, I was really impressed," in a genuine compliment. Wow. I could open my eyes and read and then push the button on the radio and say what I saw. If you're impressed by that........ Another guy in the class was reading side effects of being exposed to a chemical, one of which was possible loss of sexual reproduction and/or lowering of libido. She piped in "I better stay well away then, my libido is low enough already." GAG. We were out at supper one night (at that one restaurant) and I sent a text message to my girlfriend, and apparently she was upset that I wasn't giving her my full attention. She said "are you telling her what a bad date you are?" yeeeaaaahhhhh............ I was texting when we were walking through walmart and she commented on it then, too. I was like seriously, you're not running my life. I was trying my hardest to be civil all week. About the only way I could was to just be really quiet. She commented on how quiet I was being, and I just thought yeah, you better be glad I'm handling this by being quiet or else your head might be rolling on the floor.

Got it there.

don't lose that penny in the floor mat. I'd lose the wood grain up front, but that may just be me. box looks nice.

ugh. There are so many things wrong here I don't know where to begin. 1) Depends on your definition of loud. If you play the sub to it's maximum potential without overdoing either the thermal or mechanical limits (whether that's "fairly loud" to you is subjective), that sub will play continuously for days, weeks, months, years on that amp. Just because it's 2000 watts RMS doesn't mean it puts out 2000 watts RMS all the time. 2) T2000 can be enough or too much for a BTL. Depends on the enclosure. The BTL will handle 2000 RMS thermally but it may be limited mechanically by the box. 3) Again, just because the amp is rated for 2500-4000 watts RMS doesn't mean they're actually putting that much to the sub. Conversely, you could give the BTL 5000 watts for a few seconds and it would probably take it in the right box. So running that much power depends on a lot of factors about whether it is safe or not.

I don't think that amp would be highly overrated. Can you give links to the reviews that said so? Dayton makes great products. I have the PE version of their 500 watt plate amp and it's definitely not overrated. And yeah there are XLR to RCA adapters. I have some for my Behringer crossover. I don't remember where I got them though.

Holiday monday? What holiday?

sure is.

pole?

I'd say just use 3/4" all the way around with the bracing you mentioned, then double up the 3/4" for the front baffle that the sub mounts onto.

Is it just completely unnecessary? If so I can drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass with the tweet and 2" midrange in the doors for a "quasi" 3-way setup. If I wanted to go active, would it be better for me to use the x-over on the head unit or the HPF and LPF on the amp(s) I'm not sure what you mean by "quasi" since the 6.5, 2, and 1" speakers you put together would be an actual 3-way setup. I also don't understand what you mean by "drop the components and make the 6.5 a dedicated midbass" because again, in the 3 way setup you did propose, the 6.5 would already be a dedicated midbass. And it's already considered a component setup because you are using different drivers mounted in different locations. as for the 6x9's, I say it's personal preference. Set up the front stage without them in, see how you like it. Add if you feel the need. I'd recommend going active if you have the processing power, and it doesn't matter if you use the head unit or amp's crossovers. But most amps don't have extensive crossovers that will go up high enough to highpass the tweeter and lowpass the mid, so you'll have to take that into account. It might take a combination of the two if you don't have 3 outputs from the cd player anyway.

I agree. I don't know if it's just me or what, but the more 180 degree turns I've put into boxes, the more muddy the sound is.

I only use natural lump, as for the brand I am not loyal. yeah, gotta use lump.

that's due to the lower tuning.

no. as long as the sub will fit in the box there is no problem with how deep it is.

http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...c=20186&hl=

It doesn't look like it's sucking in. It's just from more excursion. Notice how on the low notes there is that downward crease in the surround? It's the same in the high notes, just larger amplitude. As for the sound, I can't hear it really well because I have to keep my volume down here at this training place I'm at. Are you sure the sound is coming from the sub and not something else, like the box jumping up and down on sheet metal, or resonance of the box? Could also be an air leak, so keep checking for those. If you can, play the sub with the box outside of the cabin so you can freely move the box around and check all joints easier.

38 hz is still real high even for music in-house IMO. 30 is as high as I would go (agreeing with M5). as for the ports, you'll likely have to make the box larger to accommodate the port and keep the internal volume for the sub the same.

did pretty well with the more complicated design. those are some pretty beefy mids. did you do those door panels custom with the red? that looks pretty awesome. and you really need to clean out your garage.

they are pretty much revamped as far as I know. they now use xbl^2 and are geared more for SQ than ever before. power handling is a little less. I'm sure they can still keep up in the output department, though. Their older lines have been arguably the best mix of SPL and SQ in the business and I doubt they would throw output totally out of the window.

I'm not familiar with kenwood's new model line, but if it's not the top model line (Excelon), don't get it. All of their lower lines have been average at best in the past.

low pass at 60-70 I'd say. bass boost off (so frequency doesn't matter). turn the head unit up as loud as you'll play your interiors, then turn the gain up until the sub reaches maximum potential without stressing, sounding bad, etc. Some others will tell you to use an o-scope if you have one.

Both Joshes (99ta & Laine)...Greer...Claudia... Loyd's posted here but has since disappeared... don't remember if talnlnky is here. and member02. both of them may have moved on in life though. and nismo.

play some music or a tone and just go around the box, looking and feeling for leaks. some people use baby powder or the like to kinda sprinkle around the edges and see if they blow out.