emh9009

damn, thought i was spot on!

team three thousand watts?

1. Post your SSA user name: Watts09 2. State that you qualify to the terms and agree to follow through with them as they are written above. I qualify to the terms and *more than agree* to follow through with them as they are written above 3. Post a description of your car and system 1991 metallic green CX Si 1 15" Fi bl Fully loaded! (WOOT!) Sundown Audio SAZ-1500D 3.5FT^3, Audible Customs box tuned to 34 hertz 1 run of KnuKonceptz 1/0 wire pioneer full range font speakers, untill i upgrade to components with my Sundown 100.4 JVC Deck Much more to install and order! 4. Post how you plan on helping promote Second Skin including the other web site you will post your build log in. (Rembmer build logs and videos are always better for us) ill post a build log on SSA and CRXcommunity.com, advertise through demos of my car, friends and anyone interested in my car. same as mentioned before, everyone here only knows of dyanmat. ill be one of the only cars with damplifier, let alone something that our crap-tastic local shop doesnt sell-- it will be something much better! 5. You must tell us something about yourself that nobody on this forum knows about you im 18, turning 19 on October 8th and im in my first year of college at Peninsula Community College (Go Pirates!) getting my AA degree before i transfer to a 4 year and get a BA in nutrition Edit: forgot to name my amp and box maker

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i finally got the call from my house saying i have a very heavy box waiting for me on my doorstep. i rushed home and quickly umpackaged this beast of a sub and was immediately amazed by how this thing is built. picking it up i knew it would be a monster. after a an hour or so of wiring, fitting and tuning i finally got to turn it on. it was instant gratification. im very happy with this purchace, and get even happier every time i turn it on. as everything gets loose and starts to open up, i can really appriciate the tones this thing puts out. it sounds better every time. i only have 4 awg powering it right now because im waiting to put the 1/0 in my future car, but the SAZ-1500 puts out an amazing amount of power. enough talk, here are some pictures =) By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 By emh_90_09, shot with FinePix S5700 S700 at 2009-07-13 next to come - XS battery, amp rack, 125.2 and some components =)

as far as i know ill be using the amp's Xovers, but im looking for a new deck as well so im not sure. listening goals is to get something that can be heard over my BL, but not be harsh on those high notes. i prefer rap and hip hop, some rock every now and then. this is when i turn my sub down and like to hear the lyrics more than the bass, of course. that is the main reason for upgrading. music just doesnt get loud when the sub is turned down.. thats the only loud part of my car. im coming from stock speakers, so just about anything should sound a lot better to me and i dont know about slopes. my amp is at home.. i believe 12 and 18? haven't had a chance to really look at it yet. they are 12 and 24

so im shopping around for some tweeters to be ran by my SAX-100.4 and i came across these... http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=272-110 i dont know much about different tweeters, but would these work for my front end? if so, would i need to take the cap. off that is already soldered on it, and just use the amp Xovers? ill be running them with these or if you know of any other cheap"er" tweaters that are a good choice feel free to chime in

looking at those tweets that you linked, and their prices i take back the 30$ limit if needed. still would like to stay under that, but for quality ill for sure go more

i dont really want to spend more than 30 on a pair, and lowest would be around 2800? i plan to have the 6.5 top off at 3,000.. should i start right there for tweets or a little under? and i dont know about slopes. my amp is at home.. i believe 12 and 18? haven't had a chance to really look at it yet.

yeah, as far as i would say that will be fine on a 4500. i still suggest that, just cuz my love for sundown and i know you wont regret it but im not the expert on electrical and that high of power, so you will want another opinion for sure.

and what electrical upgrades have you done and plan on doing?

like i said, if you have the right electrical you shouldnt have it top notch... nor should you ever. but even so if you have +- 100 or even 200 watts you shouldn't see much of a difference at that power lievel. is this for a daily driver, or comp?

i haven't used any cadence equipment, but i have heard good things about them. if you have some time that you can wait for an amp i would recomend the presale on the saz-4500. save you a couple hundred dollars and i guarantee you will not be dissapointed in it. here is the info on it. if you have the right electrical (which you better, if you are running that much power) than this will put out your wanted wattage sundown amps are beasts! i have two and couln't be happier!

no... was i supposed to? ive never heard about doing that, so i thought it was supposed to be there? thats scary haha should i take it out and take that off?

if you buy your sub from Quentin you get the box for... free of half off. check his deals he has going on. just another option for ya. i got my box from him and love it great CS as well. just give him a ring, he answered all my ??? promptly and accurately. just my $0.02 yeah. check ut the posts like 2 above. I'm gonna buy from him(especially if i make the deadline in the summer sale) oh, haha i didnt realize there was a second page to this when i wrote that! my bad! nevemind me then

if you buy your sub from Quentin you get the box for... free of half off. check his deals he has going on. just another option for ya. i got my box from him and love it great CS as well. just give him a ring, he answered all my ??? promptly and accurately. just my $0.02

so my friend traded some stuff and got a sealed 10" menphis sub and a jensin amp. before he traded it i had the guy install it in his car to mak sure everything worked, which it all did and sounded fine. so he traded and after running wires in my friends car and plugged everything in the power light turns on, but when tested with my DMM there is no output in the speaker terminals... here is a googled page i found on the amp... could the rca's be bad? im pretty sure they are wired right deck is an alpine CDE-102 need any other info just ask... im lost haha

i haven't seen it yet, my friend just called and told me what they did. but knowing them, im sure thats what did go down. i think thats what i have in my car, actually. it has been holding on for.. a year now? but im getting a new car soon so ill be doing this all again in a couple weeks. tips on grounding? do what the shop did, except with a nut on the bottom holding it tight? edit: question just popped up about the next install. i have a 100.4 and a 1500d. should i have seperate ground points, or would it be safe to put them on the same one directly on chasis?

epic fail on my part... bad ground. but i really dont see why, it was on bare metal and it was a solid connection. but i guess im still learning. the local shop just drilled a hole and put ground there and it works. are some metals better gounds than others? or would it be that it wasn't directly connected to chasis? im not sure if it was or not i coulnd't really see, but it was close to it so i figured it was.

ouch, we dont have one of those readily laying around haha i think he is taking it into the local shop to have them check it out tomorrow, hope that helps him out...

we went and got a new rca, but that didnt help anything. tried a different amp and that didnt even work, but it didnt even have any led to show power or anything. when i try to measure any voltage there is no reading in ac but if i turn to dc i get like 5.6-5.8, what does that mean? think it could be the ground? its on bare metal with same gauge wire as power (cut from same strand even..) the deck is brand new, so im completely out of ideas.. anyone? :S

with the same ac setting, when i first touched them it read like .2 and .3 but overall nothing. so does that mean bad rca?

umm.. AC i believe? thought thats what it was supposed to be set at?

T'm trying to find the right amp for these im stuck between the 125.2 and the 100.4. can i run those passive? ive never set a front stage up so ive been trying to find the differences between passive and active, can anyone explain or give me a link to read on this? i only have a minor understanding but want to learn! i looked on the 12volt but couldnt find anything, maybe i just cant find the right stuff i want? i would prefer the easier setup because of my inexperience, so im thinking passive on a 125.2, would that work and sound good? the porblems i can think of for active is if i got the 100.4 would that give too much to the tweeters, or would i be able to tune it down? and if thats too much would the 50.4 be a better match, or would that be too little for the midbass? i know you cant underpower it all, but im looking to get pretty loud. i listen to 95% rap and hip hop, and have a bl in the back. im upgrading from stock speakers so im really excited for this. any help in appreciated. and any more info you need just ask