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[mdexxxiv 1]

Every once in a great while I come across some posts that make me think, "Damn..." like those asking about speaker impedence when they got the website up in front of them with the diagrams and they STILL don't understand it. Anyone got any zingers to share from the internet, retail side, friends and customers? Fire away!

Edited February 1, 2009 by mdexxxiv

[Juslivin 1]

Every once in a great while I come across some posts that make me think, "Damn..." like those asking about speaker impedence when they got the website up in front of them with the diagrams and they STILL don't understand it.

I was thinking the exact same thing....

[mdexxxiv 1]

At one of our IASCA shows a few years back I had a competitor tell us that he was running his amps at a negative ohm load(not possible) He kept at it, saying his zapcos were at negative 2 ohms. I was a Zapco dealer who knew what the products were capable of, and after pointing this out to him, he pretty much ran away. The locals at these shows-novices- all think they got something over the pros. It's entertaining at least.

[fritosaregood 0]

I was at a pawn shop last year, and i saw some huge rolls of 10 gauge power wire. so i decided to get 50ft of red and black wire. he asked why i needed so much wire, i told him i use it for sub wires, he when on and on tellin...no come over here ill show you our 16 gauge wire. this is wat you need for that. I said no, im going to have over 2000 watts goin though this wire. then he went on to say.. So, that doesnt matter anythin, i said yea.. ill have too much power for the little wires. he told me.. you dont know what your talkin about, the only thing that matters in wires are ohms.and thats what your buy your wire based on... so i paid for the wire and walked out the door laughing

[RobClay 20]

I was at a pawn shop last year, and i saw some huge rolls of 10 gauge power wire. so i decided to get 50ft of red and black wire. he asked why i needed so much wire, i told him i use it for sub wires, he when on and on tellin...no come over here ill show you our 16 gauge wire. this is wat you need for that. I said no, im going to have over 2000 watts goin though this wire. then he went on to say.. So, that doesnt matter anythin, i said yea.. ill have too much power for the little wires. he told me.. you dont know what your talkin about, the only thing that matters in wires are ohms.and thats what your buy your wire based on... so i paid for the wire and walked out the door laughing

Thats pathetic lol

[johnecon2001 82]

I've got one.

When noobs post there threads in the wrong forums.

Strikingly similar to this one... hmm..

moving to OFF TOPIC

[coobies5 43]

ahahahhhahah

[mdexxxiv 1]

I've got one.

When noobs post there threads in the wrong forums.

Strikingly similar to this one... hmm..

moving to OFF TOPIC

Oops, a small oversight on my part. Thanks for getting it to the right place.

[B7L|BL4Z3R 4]

hahah that was sweet

[LuvfiAudio 0]

i feel special the topics was made out of my ignorance

[sound=vibration 34]

how many dbzz will i hit...

that one gets me everytime

[Juslivin 1]

Or im trying to hit this number db what should i get

[F-150 Murphy 0]

Okay so i went to Circuit City, probably the first wrong decision on my part. So next i went to their "great audio center" then one of their "helpful" firedog employees came to me. I forget how i ended up at this moment but he ended up telling me there was no such thing as a 13" or 13.5" sub. He then proceeded to tell me there was no such thing as any sub besides a 8",10",or 12". Then he called me stupid for asking and i took my business elsewhere.. Have fun going out of business Circuit city

[johnecon2001 82]

He works for Firedog.. what do you expect.

[KU40 173]

gr8. Is this a license tag?

QUOTE (RobClay @ Feb 1 2009, 02:42 AM) *

My buddy has an Aq2200 running 2 fosgate t1 15's.

I got to have a lil play time with the amp and i really liked it.

Solid amp that puts out rated power.(/quote)

Do you have some spl numbers with the 2200?

[RobClay 20]

Lol nice one KU. lemme fix it for ya

My buddy has an Aq2200 running 2 fosgate t1 15's.

I got to have a lil play time with the amp and i really liked it.

Solid amp that puts out rated power.

Do you have some spl numbers with the 2200?

[fritosaregood 0]

I was at bestbuy audio center thing a while back, when i was lookin over some of the decks i heard a one of bestbuys guys talkin to another customer about wat amp he needs. i forgot most of it, but by the end he told him its better go get these subs and wire it to the amp at 1 ohm, the lower ohm load you have, the more efficient your amp is gonna be...

[airbear 0]

i was just doing an install for a kid and he asked me why i had run the power down one side and the signal leads down the other because it was a waste of time and the proper way was power and rcas on the same side... he insisted on me switching it for like 3 hours on top of him already repetedly telling me that his stock ground was by far good enough and i didnt have to worry about it....by the end of that install i just took my money and looked straight at him laughed and walked to my car

[ohhsosmooth 0]

People in my town just think that if you have a flip out or a dvd player in your car you have a bad a$$ system..

Or they run nice woofers with amps that cost maybe 100$ off ebay..

God I love it..

[Punkeyboozter 19]

but what if companies get it wrong? ....my previous amp opti 2000D had a 4 guage power terminals. The amp did good power but needless to say I had those cables pretty black and smelly at the tips

o dont forget that my sony 10" hit 210 DB's in a sealed box

[ohhsosmooth 0]

210 dbs sealed..

Lmfao!

[Duran 387]

210 dbs sealed..

Lmfao!

I do it daily. With my 30mm kicker SS tweet and 5 watts. Efficiency baby!

[Duran 387]

How much the signal to noise ratio is so critical on a monoblock...

[ohhsosmooth 0]

Man..

Wish I had skills like you guys..

[johnecon2001 82]

i was just doing an install for a kid and he asked me why i had run the power down one side and the signal leads down the other because it was a waste of time and the proper way was power and rcas on the same side... he insisted on me switching it for like 3 hours on top of him already repetedly telling me that his stock ground was by far good enough and i didnt have to worry about it....by the end of that install i just took my money and looked straight at him laughed and walked to my car

He was wrong on the stock ground being good enough, but you were wrong about everything else.

Running power and signal away from each other is a myth. If your connections are shitty, expect noise. if you do them the correct way, you'll be just fine.

I can't even begin to count the amount of times I've done this.