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My boat is already up North in storage. After the 90deg weekend we had last weekend I decided it was a fitting last hurrah. I burned a whopping 6 gallons of gas this year I think. New record About to finish tidying up the IQR. Perhaps we need to go for a snow rip this winter. Do you have acceptable clothing/helmet for that?

Even at a 3" driver the need for a 3 way is dubious. Just get the driver on axis and the tweet will then only muddy the response vs fixing it. A 2" there is no way I'd run a tweeter. A 4" on the other hand absolutely requires one. Getting as much of the FR up top is huge and most easily done with the largest driver, but pretty sure the WAF on a 4" enclosure on the dash would be pretty low. The 2 you picked has a really nice 3 in the same line.

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Yep, same reason that idiots are building useless 4th order bandpass boxes. Either trying to copy or be unique, but almost always a monster failure.

When don't I want to get ploughed

The rs180's are useless as a midbass compared to those. Next step if it were me would be to verify exactly the volume of the enclosure and how on axis it can be. Those two parameters are what would lead me to the right driver.

Yay for Climax!

It is quite a distance before getting to stuff worth riding, but I can leave from my house. There is this monster lake thing to cross first which is perhaps the most boring riding of all.

By far? Hopefully not. Most car audio tweeters are complete trash. What always matters the most is the driver that plays most of the frequencies. The WHOLE goal of a 3 way in a car is to allow one driver to do as much of that as possible. A hybrid 2 way can also be amazingly effective mating a full range driver with a dedicated midbass. Midbass reeks havoc on a midrange so pulling that out greatly helps a full ranger perform. Indeed. A well done 2 way will smoke 99% of all 3 ways that have ever been installed in cars. Normally it is hardly worth the effort to go to a 3 way. This is particularly the case if you can't fit a real midbass in your budget/install. For that reason alone it may be the best approach here.

Yep, think i paid $4 ea for mine. I only spoke back since I didn't want the OP to run off and buy some. Mids first.

I'm jealous. Been doing the yearly shop for snowmobiles non-stop for a few weeks lately.

Bang for the buck it is a hell of a tweeter though.

That wasn't a recommendation yet...really want to know what the mids will do before even thinking about tweeters. Just was a possible reference that would save budget and could have equal or better results depending on what it needs to cover.

There is no active crossover in the 9903. I gave up on finding anything that does that. The unicorn doesn't exist. For high frequency fill the Dayton ND20 would save you money and not kill a bunch of what you don't need...depending on the mid mounting and choice. When you say enclosure how much volume can it have?

Was the best for my needs. Mine were simple. Not shitty SQ - pretty much ANY deck these days from one of the big manufacturers works here Be able to take >1TB HDD for music --> Only on a Kenwood Fast boot -> previous generation Kenwood's failed with speed all over this has a new processor setup and works well Android Auto -> none are wireless yet Works nicely with the Maestro for replacing my boost gauge and a few others -> Kenwood beats all manufacturers here as they work diligently with the idatalink folks to make sure they have access to almost everything. Being I run a whipple on my truck having some extra gauges is helpful.

Head unit wise, I am back to the world of non-carpc's as the new Kenwood's do all I need EXCEPT DSP. I gave up on the mixed bus a while ago since the interface for the headunit fails then. DDX9903s has great android auto integration and as a bonus will run a 2tb hdd holding music with pretty fast access times. No other headunit did both when I bought a few months back.

Not in love with those mounting locations. Is that the only place to put the mid? No way you can fit a bigger more dedicated midbass? The RS180 is a nice midrange driver, but as a midbass there are plenty of other choices. I'd same the same on the Seas tweet. Generally I have a Seas boner, but not for that driver in that application in particular. Either way that is all ahead of things. First things first. Getting the largest driver we can in the midbass space and secondly getting the midrange figured out. What options for mounting/aiming do you have on the midrange?

We were talking about brisket so he assumed.

Turned out great.

The most important stage is over at least. The collagen has broken down. The rest I am hopeful will get close at least.

Yep. The whole thing was strange....but fuck do they smell good

At 300F now and climbing about a degree every 5 minutes. there is HOPE!

I checked that at 5am as I thought WTF? I've seen a plateau hang out like that but never exact, lol. I wasn't using the Stoker log though so I only had the instantaneous temp. My thermapen was within 2 degrees and that could easily been based solely on location.

7.5 and 8.5 lbs

I've never had a butt take 18 hours. 12-16 is normal. Leave it to the time I need it done.