Notorious97200

A Lupo is like half a Golf gti !!! you have room, for sure, Mac&cheese !!! I don't think I can sit in a tiny car like that ! But this build is incredible. I'd love to find an installer like that in my little island. Everything is so clean ! CONGRATULATIONS !!! You did not tell us how your customer like it. He must be s proud of his car now. It's the most beautiful Lupo I've ever seen !

I've read good things about the JBL gti 608, but never had a listen. They are not too expensive on ebay. Personnally, I love my set of focal 165 KP. They were expensive, but I have them for 6 years now, and I still love them.

Sorry. I have totally forgot about the 4th of July. Here it is the 14th of July.

No news ?! Money is burning my friend's pocket !!! He WANTS one 15" BTL N2 ! waiting on you !

He designed a box for me too. 2 Pioneer spl 12". Box tune to 34 Hz. Result within one week : one windshield broken !!!!! It was not the goal, only the result ! Great guy to deal with ! I'll come back again.

Hi all, A friend of mine has just blown its XXX 18" for the second time ! He doesn't know why ! The first time, he knew he had a very small box with a slot port, and he did not know the tuning of the box. He was playinf at full tilt with no ssf on ! Amp is a MTX te 4000. He has several batteries, and the big 3 done, now. I ordered a recone kit for him from PAP. They sent a kit for a 15" sub, and then the right one. (So I have free kit at home, looking for a sub !). After a few weeks, he was really satisfied, but on the 21st this month (it was music day in France) he told me he blown it again. This time the wire that runs on the spider has gone into smoke. The sub is a DVC2 playing at 1 Ohm. The ssf seems to be set right, and the box is now bigger (still too small IMO), tuned to 30 Hz according to him ! I don't know how he can say 30 hz, but ...whatever ! Do you have an idea about what happened ? What can he do to avoid blowing its sub ? Thanks

Can't find any link. He must have take them off of our local Facebook page on car audio. I'm looking for a direct contact with him. I knew he had a one month delay for the subs to come here. It's too long for me !

User error for sure ! Even if they won't agree. But when they "say" 10 400 watts rms, it is difficult to understand that a 4000 watts amp can blow it so easily !!! I hope they will both learn that as a lesson. But I can't blame them. They don't speak English to learn on US forums, and in France it's hard to find good info about subs and box building. Thanks to you all.

I will try to find it for you ! He has no real shop here. I know all of them ! I don't know if he's the one who receive the 15" smd recently here. I thought it was him for a minute.

Take a look at DC amps, they are cheap too. Cadence is a well known brand, for years. I would not hesitate to run one of their amps. if your system is temporary, OP, get the cheapest amp, and don't show it on your amp rack. The DD on sale is a good product.

I know there is a guy who sells Fi ans AA on e bay here. But I don't know if he is legit (is it the right word ?). I meet him once and he wanted to listen to my sub when he saw the Fi sticker on my car. But there was too much people, and he did not tell who he was, so I had to say no ! Someone told me the price of the Havoc 18" (about $1100 !!!!!!!!!) : I don't want to buy from him : my friend will have to sell his car to buy the btl !!! I'd rather order from you like I did for my 12" BTL. I know it's not easy to ship to a foreign country. :-( If we have to order from this guy, I think we will chose another brand. Sorry.

Big marketing bs ! Kicker is mainstream too, and I have never seen or read about Solo X blowing so fast ! But I know they blow too !!! Alpine, MTX,JL are all mainstream, and I don't think they do it like SS. I will never trust any SS product now !

Nice, but small pics !

You must be right !!! If this sub was rated at 3000 watts rms, maybe he would understand, but they say it's 10 400 watts rms !!!! So running it with 4000 watts, my buddy can't understand it's too much power ! Why did SS act like that ? I don't want to own any SS product now !

I know 2 people with the quad coil model in 18" : both blew ! I think they bought this sub because of the 10 000 watts rms rating ! They are both very disappointed now ! Just to let you know the XXX price here : 1 200 €, about $ 1600 !!!!!!!!!!!

I can't tell you that. I'm not a specialist at all !! And those are not my subs. I only know 2 people with them, and both have blown their subs. It may be users errors, but it was never on 10 000 rms, but on 3000-4000 w rms, and in small boxes for 18" subs. I sold my SSA Icon 15" sub to a friend. He gives it a lot of power from a DD m something amp, and the sub has never smelled nothing and still runs fine like new ! Another one is running 2 xcons on 4 Sundown saz 1000 for one year with absolutely no problem, no smell, nothing wrong. I hope my btl will last long ! I'm sure thse SS XXX are not so well built. And they are not cheap : I can get 3 (to 4) Xcons for the price of 1 XXX !!!

Are those subs too weak ? Another guy here have blown his xxx 18" too ! I will try PSI if possible this time, for him. Thanks.

Lol. Happy birthday Nick !

Did you try google ? Mark antony or Levinson ?

Ooh ok ! Thanks for your help Nick. We will have to order the kit from parts-express so.

Hello Fi, A friend of mine has a pro audio set up, and needs to know if it is possible to have recone kits for some Aura subs. They use Neodymium (?) . He loves how they sounds, they play low and loud ! I can show you pics of the drivers when he send them to me. He has several ones to recone, they are very old ! These speakers won't go in a car, just in big boxes for live events. thanks

Nice amp. Hope you'll like !

Thanks for your answers. I don't think he will try to test anything with an o'scope, but who knows ?! I'll send him the link to this thread. I hope he'll find a good translater !

I think (not my sub) the previous VC was burnt to death !!! Clipping for sure ! He listen mostly to rap and reggae songs with a LOT of bass, too much bass ! If a song does not have a huge bass he won't listen to it. The gain is set by ear, I guess so.But he keeps telling me the gain knob is very low on his amp, and on the h u the bass level is set very very low. Hard to beleive. I am asking because I don't want him to say the recone kit was a POS !!! I think 10 000 watts rms would destroy this sub ! Another friend has just blow one last week ! for the same reson.