jcarter1885

Nice score man, glad you like those horns. How many watts are you sending those horns?

Did you get the mini bodies or the full body horns?

Picking a sub because of youtube videos is ridiculous but to each its own. Enjoy the Xcon

Have you dealt with IA customer service? Their top notch as well. OP you cant go wrong with any of the listed subs, its hard to pick a subwoofer for someone else since everybody has different needs and preferences.

great news!!! photos pls! I bet it looks like your sub but smaller

I doubt you will hear tweeters over the subs if placed in the rear, that is if you cant hear your front door speakers already. Just replace the speakers in the front doors with better speakers and amp them if you dont have an amp on them yet.

Those PG Elite amps are nice, dont know if I want them or the new Sundown amps. You got the best of both worlds right now

There really isn't. lol This is my shops truck that I built. Build as in design, build and fabricate all on your own or just build?

If he wants clean and loud components how can you recommend some speakers that arent out and nobody heard yet. OP, badass truck and cant wait to see what you do with it. It looks like a fun little project to have around

Each amp listed will be fine, subs rms is not a main factor when deciding on a sub amp. Extra wattage wont be heard. Nice to have extra in case you want to upgrade. Even if you upgrade 100-500 watts wont be audible. If your not doubling power or competing its not worth it.

Each amp listed will be fine, subs rms is not a main factor when deciding on a sub amp. Extra wattage wont be heard.

Nobody was comparing them, just saying whats better from a list of mentioned subs. Nothing wrong with that.

Let me guess SSA Gcons

Are you going to post some pictures? Apparently we can't see ass shots, but I'll be happy with anything that we can see. What's so happy about looking at a sub with no ass shots? The sub will probably resemble other SSA subs if pictures are just taking of the cone and dustcap.

Better for what? The only way to tell what sub is the best in your particular application is to test them all, too many factors to decide. But im pretty sure most will say SSA subs are better, just how it is around here. SSA Icon > American Bass XFL > Sundown SA > Skar VVX

If you run horns it wouldnt be wise to run the mid and horn together, the horns will outperform any mid seeing the same power. If your talking about a regular tweeter and midbass driver then it depends where you put your inline crossover. I hope you wouldnt put it after your wired the speakers together becuase then your mid and tweet will playing the same frequency. I currently have my crescendo tweet and rockford mid set up this way but my in-line crossover is right after the tweeter before I connected my two speakers together. Hope that makes sense, it does affect sound quality some because you cant seperate the power so either the mid or tweet can distort before the other. You cant play your mids the way they are designed to play so they will natural roll-off which can cause beaming and so on.

With an in-line crossover yes the frequency changes with ohm load, so yes it will affect the sound quality if the crossover drops lower than what the speaker can play. If you have to correct crossover for a 4 ohm load then it shouldnt affect the sound quality as long as the speakers are wired to 4 ohms.

I dont see how you can run an 8 ohm driver as 4 ohms, maybe im missing something.

You mean wiring a pair of horns together so the amp is bridged at 4 ohms, that would be pointless. They wont have channel seperation and it wouldnt sound right, you need to keep left and right seperation. If you wire them together then you minus well stick with the supertweeters you currently own. Power is not an issue, they wont need anywhere the power supertweeters need to get loud. As far as any other HLCD's these are probably the only one's you will find. Not to many people selling theirs and there arent that many brands who make the bodies. So your best bet is to get a new pair from Eric Stevens unless you can find a pair of used bodies, then you can pick a HLCD compression driver from parts-express.com. As far as setting them up, browse the HLCD section under diyma.com forum. There is plenty of information on mounting, tuning and any other valuable information needed to set them up properly. Even emailing Eric Stevens will get you the best info around, he has the patent to the horns thats why Image Dynamics cant sell them anymore. The same reason why you just cant buy the horn bodies from woofersetc.com aswell.

email is [email protected] I have two models Pro $299 and Ultra $425.00. Pro is a ferrite magnet version and the Ultra Neodymium magnet, they both share the same diaphragm and phase plug. Ultra has a higher efficiency 111dB versus 109dB also higher power handling 100 watts versus 60 but this is a non issue in the car as we can never use their actual output potential without losing our hearing. Ultra has more air on the top also.

Eric Stevens has his own line of HLCDs out after leaving Image Dynamics, I'm not on my computer at home to get you his contact info. Go on diyma.com forum and pm him to get a full set, horn bodies and hlcd compression drivers.

Nothing from Crescendo is American made. Haha that gave me a good laugh.

Good, because it's not a good idea. The helpful advice is telling them when they have a stupid idea. This qualifies as one of those times. We aren't an answering service, we aren't required to answer any and all questions posed exactly as they are proposed. We are also here to help educate and assist in devising a better solution to achieve their goals when and where possible, and when people are willing to listen and understand why something might be a bad idea or why there is a better way to go about something. If that's a "problem" with this forum, then I'm happy to be a part of that problem. That's part of the reason a majority of this forum is better educated than the average member base of the majority of forums I've been on. If you don't like it, you aren't required to come here. Meh.........

Big 3 can be done in 4 gauge, but if you plan on upgrading in the future then use 1/0 for big 3 wiring.