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4 Fi Audio IB3 18's walled off 15Hz tune in a VAN BUILD LOG

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cool thanks!

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

my kid and her mom lived up there for a while... Dashboard sometimes has 1 or 2 comps a summer here... if I get this done before one you should come check the show

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

sweet man I'm an hour away from watertown. I'd definitely love to make a trip to talk shop with ya! Love the build so far!! fing34.gif

where you at? heck yess... I hate dashboard but I got a buddy that worked there for a while and he opened his own shop in Luverne MN.. once this build is done I'm gonna pop in on him and find out what i gotta learn to compete. Just for fun, see what I can get.

Sounds good! Synergy Audio here Watertown will have sanctioned Midwest SPL event late summer. I will let you guys know when it is.

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so my neighbor used to peek and stare every time he passed while I was working...weve become friends and he has 3 12" CVR's...single 4ohm...sealed. He has a rockford t1500 that fried...all 3 subs were parallel LOL. So I sold him one of my amps and ordered another one. we runnin that bitch at 6 friggen ohms. it's louder than his rockford was. we're gonna IB his trunk with them this weekend so ill make a build log of that later. the fuse holder that came with the BNIB amp had bad burn marks on the inside where the power wire makes its contact! Everything looks and works fine though. Now I'm nervouse I wont get a 4th amp for a while after the build is complete :(

anyway,

I made 2 of 3 baffles today, put 1 in on the backside of the wall frame so that I can mark out everything and add more bracing easily. Its hard to see from the pics, but theres a sub in each corner then a 22" port line. 22" is retarded. The 18's look tiny now. Anyway, my tuning was too high and after mapping things out I decided I can squeeze a bigger port to raise tuning and add area... but a quick run in ISD still shows 12.35Hz so I'll have to shorten the port a little. At the top there are 2 6.5" 2x4's coming down then connected with a 16" wide. On the bottom I made 2 triangles. It's the best I can do...so I decided I'm gonnatripple baffle the front still, but put a 4th on the back of the 6" wide bracing so I can caulk and screw together to hold and support the bracing. I'll lose a little more airspace, so maybe I wont have to shorten the port after all.

baffle board on the back side, pic from the back looking in

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from inside looking back... port cutout line and the outline of the top support

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bottom 2 supports

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more of the same

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really, I just cant put the baffle boards in front where they are supposed to be cuz they wont fit through the doors, and I cant put them in through the back cuz the supports are in the way..I cant take the supports out cuz they are holdig the roof up..and Im not redoing the roof but 1 time cuz that was a nightmare.

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Keep up the good work.

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cool thanks!

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

my kid and her mom lived up there for a while... Dashboard sometimes has 1 or 2 comps a summer here... if I get this done before one you should come check the show

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

sweet man I'm an hour away from watertown. I'd definitely love to make a trip to talk shop with ya! Love the build so far!! :fing34:

where you at? heck yess... I hate dashboard but I got a buddy that worked there for a while and he opened his own shop in Luverne MN.. once this build is done I'm gonna pop in on him and find out what i gotta learn to compete. Just for fun, see what I can get.

Sorry I have taken so long to reply. havent been at my desk in a couple days. Anyhow, I'm in Montevideo about an hour straight east of you on highway 7. Ya Luverne is a cool place I go through there to visit my grandma. So when I get some time I'll let you know and we can get together :drink40:

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Keep up the good work.

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cool thanks!

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

my kid and her mom lived up there for a while... Dashboard sometimes has 1 or 2 comps a summer here... if I get this done before one you should come check the show

Looking good! Should be another warm day in Soo Foo for you to get more work done! trink40.gif

whats up man! where are you at???

Straight north in Watertown!

sweet man I'm an hour away from watertown. I'd definitely love to make a trip to talk shop with ya! Love the build so far!! :fing34:

where you at? heck yess... I hate dashboard but I got a buddy that worked there for a while and he opened his own shop in Luverne MN.. once this build is done I'm gonna pop in on him and find out what i gotta learn to compete. Just for fun, see what I can get.

Sorry I have taken so long to reply. havent been at my desk in a couple days. Anyhow, I'm in Montevideo about an hour straight east of you on highway 7. Ya Luverne is a cool place I go through there to visit my grandma. So when I get some time I'll let you know and we can get together :drink40:

havent even heard of it :D any younger kin in L-Town? I lived there a while.

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Damn, better give me a map! I meant to say montevideo is on hwy 212 straight east of you. goes to show ya how often i get out of my cave. :trippy: Nope no relitives in luverne that i know of anyways. btw, you done with that van yet? :ehh:

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Been through Montivideo many times on my way to the Twin Cities. trink40.gif

You ever plan on coming to Watertown hit me up with a PM.

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I've always had love for Kicker. Over the years, every time I need something... they just ask my address and send it. "what's the charge?" "oh it's already sent. thanks for Livin Loud!"

Well I got my amps back yesterday in record time, and included was 1 or 2 sets of remote gain control with the cable(s). I thought I saw 2 but today I pulled them back out to snap pics and there's one. Either way I won't be using them so someone locally that needs one will scoop it up sometime. I just love Kicker, always have.

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I love when my woman helps

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it's cool when we can play flirt and tease while doing installs.

even better when I can put her to work

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I wasn't satisfied with the bracing, so I decided to connect the top brace with the bottom two..I'll have to shave out a lot on both of them for the speaker cutouts, but with them being sandwiched from both sides, should still be well worth it. That 22" port just eats up the whole wall.

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4-5 years ago when i was workin on my accent build with the front stage going 4-way active, I came up with the idea of 4 toggle switches.. HP-BP-BP-LP. So I can kill any range I want and have on any range I want... mainly for showin off the system and teaching people...cuz Ive always got people walkin up on my wanting to learn.. and I can demonstrate "this is what the tweeters do" and kill the rest. "this is just tweets and subs".. and so on.

So I got my Iraggi today, scooped up 4 toggles and another DMM as my X biatch snatch gots all my old stereo, tools, everything....

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gotta show off my 12" port and my lights too... gonna do the same in the VAN... red and blue lights. Someday I'll scoop up a little amp and do bass on 1 channel and treble on the other, have blue lights hooked to bass and red to trebble, so the blues are long and continuous and reds flashin and blinkin rapid like.

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4-5 years ago when i was workin on my accent build with the front stage going 4-way active, I came up with the idea of 4 toggle switches.. HP-BP-BP-LP. So I can kill any range I want and have on any range I want... mainly for showin off the system and teaching people...cuz Ive always got people walkin up on my wanting to learn.. and I can demonstrate "this is what the tweeters do" and kill the rest. "this is just tweets and subs".. and so on.

So I got my Iraggi today, scooped up 4 toggles and another DMM as my X biatch snatch gots all my old stereo, tools, everything....

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gotta show off my 12" port and my lights too... gonna do the same in the VAN... red and blue lights. Someday I'll scoop up a little amp and do bass on 1 channel and treble on the other, have blue lights hooked to bass and red to trebble, so the blues are long and continuous and reds flashin and blinkin rapid like.

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Thats brilliant man!

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ya'll know how much i HATE do do stuff for cosmetics...but i couldn't help myself. I wanted to add a spacer for more rear clearance for the pole vents as well as a thicker baffle for better screw grabbin. Then I couldn't help but trace it out. Then I couldn't help but break out the 'ol router. BUT I made DAMN sure to at least do a ****** job! :D

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Excellent work on the baffle, cant wait to see how this turns out :popcorn:

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Excellent work on the baffle, cant wait to see how this turns out :popcorn:

thank you very much! In person, its shoddy... but glad the camera takes gooder pics haha

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basically they are Adire Audio Kit LCRs using the Vifa to replace the Usher

2 Vifa XT25TG30 1" Ring Radiator tweeters being run off a Kicker KX200.2 These will be high passed MUCH higher than they should be. They are solid down to 1.5k, 3k would be an excellent crossing, but I'm going to go super high... maybe as high as 12-14kHz... I won't know till i play. I hate the 2nd highest treble tweeters reproduce. I love the extreme highs.

2 CSS FR125S 4.5" full range drivers. These drivers were made for audiophiles that are so peculiar that they are willing to sacrifice the extreme highs and extreme lows to avoid a crossover and all the SQ lost with them. They have a copper sleeve and XBL^2 tech to get them to go as high and as low as possible, low inductance..yadda yadda yadda. They can be played up to 20kHz just fine. I should cross them close to my Vifa's range, but I'm purposely making a hole in my sound floor where the lower treble range will be attenuated. But hey, between the FR125S and the XT25TG30's, I'll still have more treble I'll ever need... just not so harsh and raspy. These will be bandpassed from 700Hz to wherever I end up staring the hole. Kicker KX350.4 bridged, as these are HT 8ohm speakers.

4 Adire Audio Extremis 6.4's. XBL2. These 4 woofers are good down to 33Hz when vented. I'll cross them somewhere around 50-80Hz, I will take lots of play time to optimize them. My subs play quite high, they sound good crossed at 80Hz in my HT, but a main focus of mine is DMX going "uh! uh-huh!" or JaRule, Ludacris... deep voices. Pac. I went with 4 of these when 2 would be overkill in their mounting location as it is, cuz I want the high/tight/thump/kick to be crisp and clear. I want bass guitars, drums, men's voices... to be strong and effortless, not strained and breaking up. I could run 4 12" subwoofers with a Kicker KX850.4 it was benched 1000 RMS. It's running these bad boys. Bandpassed 60Hz-700Hz.

The Fi IB3 18's in 86 cubic feet with a 22" port tuned to 15Hz LPed at 80Hz. 4 AP30001D's.

Alpine IVA-W505 DVD player to watch WOTW's, HULK, Star Trek, Transformers... you name it..so I don't have to listen to the same 20-30 songs all day with sub-20Hz content.

I need an excellent crossover to do 4-way active, 2 channels bandpassed. I chose the Alpine PXA-H701.

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from the looks of it, driver 3 on the left side is off 1/8th inch. so much for your symmetry! hahaha just foolin with ya :woot:

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from the looks of it, driver 3 on the left side is off 1/8th inch. so much for your symmetry! hahaha just foolin with ya :woot:

ya, I had to do that.. I was having a slight comb filter issue and the staging was off a touch on that side cuz the glove box has a different reflection than the steering wheel, so I had to fiz the imaging...

uh.. ya...

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damn it, now I gotts rebuild from scratch! That roof panel wont work, need a new start, which means the walls gotta come outk, and the wall frame....

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Pretty cool exhaust tip you installed there on the van. May be a little oversized, but I bet the import crowd goes crazy over it.

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basically they are Adire Audio Kit LCRs using the Vifa to replace the Usher

Basically they are nothing like the Adire LCR's actually.

Baffle width, orientation, spacing, and crossovers along with the drivers would all have to be the same for it to be basically Adire LCR's.

Cosmetically the baffle looks nice.

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basically they are Adire Audio Kit LCRs using the Vifa to replace the Usher

Basically they are nothing like the Adire LCR's actually.

Baffle width, orientation, spacing, and crossovers along with the drivers would all have to be the same for it to be basically Adire LCR's.

Cosmetically the baffle looks nice.

I missed that page :huh:

A decent amount of money in drivers to put them in such a poor acoustic alignment :(

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