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Three main ones, here (obviously), ROE, and FloridaSPL. There are a few others I have joined just to read a thread but don't post on. I have found that I frequent SSA most often. The main contributor's on this site are very knowledgable and willing to help. I too have posted the same thread on a few forums and recieved not only the most help but the most informed input from SSA. I will often sift through old threads and have found that alot of the questions I want answered have been asked and answered before. This saves from wasting everyone's time with questions that have already been answered. I also like the fact that SSA includes forums for alot of the major manufacturers where I can post a question and most likely get an answer from someone in that company, if not the owner himself. It almost feels like I get a chance to talk to a celebrity, LOL. I don't know if this is off topic, but I just wanted a chance to say thank you to SSA and all the members for giving me a place to educate myself and help others out a little on the way. Thanks everyone.

^^ What he said. I've got the loudspeaker cookbook. When I started studying it I was pretty much overwhelmed by it. Lots of info and yes, you could get all your questions answered out of it. There are a couple other books that you could still get info from, but I can't remember the names.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/Bass-Reflex_Enclosure_Design "This forms a Helmholtz resonator (click here for more information). Physically, the port functions as the “neck” of the resonator and the enclosure functions as the “cavity.” In this case, the resonator is driven from the piston directly on the cavity instead of the typical Helmholtz case where it is driven at the “neck.” However, the same resonant behavior still occurs at the enclosure resonance frequency, fB. At this frequency, the impedance seen by the loudspeaker diaphragm is large (see Figure 3 below). Thus, the load on the loudspeaker reduces the velocity flowing through its mechanical parameters, causing an anti-resonance condition where the displacement of the diaphragm is a minimum. Instead, the majority of the volume velocity is actually emitted by the port itself instead of the loudspeaker. When this impedance is reflected to the electrical circuit, it is proportional to 1 / Z, thus a minimum in the impedance seen by the voice coil is small. Figure 3 shows a plot of the impedance seen at the terminals of the loudspeaker. In this example, fB was found to be about 40 Hz, which corresponds to the null in the voice-coil impedance."

Doubt it. 90% of Chrysler's have the amp located under the dash, but that vehicle is basically a rebadged Benz. . . They probably have a passive network on the driver. PM Vladd, he has a Crossfire. I are 2 slowz! I always forget it's a benz at heart. It's basically a CLK then correct? Is the SRT8 benz power plant from AMG? then? srt6 with the supercharged 3.2 no 8 in the crossfire but a few people are trying to swap. btw I hope you aren't installing in one, the head unit space alone is a fucking PITA if you have anything more than a single run of rca's

Doubt it. 90% of Chrysler's have the amp located under the dash, but that vehicle is basically a rebadged Benz. . . They probably have a passive network on the driver. PM Vladd, he has a Crossfire.

Pretty excited, get our audio world a little face time haha. Check it out.. http://www.kettering.edu/currentstudents/

I personally dont see the need to go bigger than 8 gauge to be honest with ya, your fine with what you have now. X2 on that! for MOST application hell 12gauge or 10 is big enough! lol!!

2; this and caraudioforum.com. I learned that is was the place to be by posting the same exact thread on both forums and seeing which forum gave me better answers. Long story short; I got 0 responses on caf and 3+ pages on ssa. I think it's pretty obvious where people should go if they want to learn. ssa vs. caf

I would say get the SAZ-3500D and you will be cool or you can find a used SAZ-3000D and it will work fine. What is your budget, that will help us decide whats best for you? Also do you want new or used? Money is not a problem and everything will be new. I hate buying used I like to be the first owner. LOL Thumper is building my box orginally he was building for my 2 JL 12W6's but after reading on here and seeing videos I have changed my mind and am going with xcons. The Xcon's will be a totally different beast from the W6. Thats what I'm hopeing. I've always been more of an SQ guy but I want more so I'm going more to the SPL side of things. I will be emailing yall very soon. Just need to get rid of some things first. I wouldnt say an xcon is spl side as far as an spl woofer itself if that is what you meant by that not to sure. I love thier clarity solid and very accurate I dont think you will be dissapointed with the xcons sq at all. Think of it more as a sq woofer that can handle tons of power, they pack a great punch while still sounding great.!!

There are advantages and disadvantages to both 2-way and 3-way. If this is your first attempt at an active setup, my suggestion would be to stick with 2-way initially. Appropriately tuning an active setup isn't as easy as it sounds.....it would be a much better learning experience, IMO, to start with a 2-way and once you gain some hands-on experience can decide if you think moving to a 3-way would be beneficial. And you would probably achieve better results with a 2-way initially due to the less complicated tuning requirements. Problem is, there are advantages and disadvantages to everything.....what you need to do is decide what set of tradeoffs best suit your needs. Just briefly; Speakers in kickpanels you have to worry about appropriate sizing and aiming of the kickpanels, legroom possibly being given up, early reflections from the underside of the dash, and having or acquiring the skill to build them.....but you typically gain more equalized pathlengths, ability to better aim the speakers, good imaging from both front seats, and while there are early reflections from the dash/etc there are steps that can be taken to tame them. Mids in doors have the disadvantage of typically having worse aiming and not much room for decent aiming, more unequalized pathlengths requiring use of time alignment and inherently limiting good imaging to only a single seat, possibly have early diffraction and reflection due to the door panel that can be more difficult to tame, typically differing listening axis from each driver which not desirable and could decrease imaging/coherence.......but on the plus side, it's an easier install, with the proper processing and install considerations results can still be acceptable for a single listening position, easily accessible airspace for the midbass, and no legroom given up. If you separate the tweeter from the mid (mid in door, tweeter in A-pillar for example) you may help your stage height at the expense of possible coherence and lobing at the crossover point, but that can be helped with proper tuning but typically requires proper tuning to get "right". That certainly isn't a comprehensive overview, but should give you some things to consider when selecting your mounting locations and what best fits your time and abilities. As for drivers, there are so many options on the market it can be difficult for us to make too specific recommendations, especially without knowing specifics as far as how they will be installed and used. Some of them will perform well IB in a door, others could benefit froman enclosure. So that's soemthing to take into consideration. Howhigh they will be playing (2-way or 3-way) for mids and how low they'llbe playing (tweeters) will also play a role. Seas, Peerless, Vifa and ScanSpeak are pretty much staples in the DIY community for building quality, well performing drivers at affordable prices. Scanspeak just released a new line, Discovery, which are reasonable priced. SB Acoustics is relatively new but from all reports are well performing drivers. The Dayton Reference line have good distortion performance but have some cone breakup issues that can limit how high they can be used on the top end. Usher builds good drivers, though are on the higher end of the mid-priced drivers. HiVi and Tang Band can be hit or miss....some of their drivers perform well for the price. LPG has pretty good performing small format tweeters, as does Seas. The LPG however don't do so hot crossed over very low (<2500hz), so for example LPG tweeter with Dayton Ref driver probably wouldn't be an optimal mix. If you want a low playing tweeter, chances are you'll have to end up with a large format tweeter. There's just dozens and dozens of options.

no i was playing lol

eh idk i guess ill find out tomorrow. if you jack up the car and theres play in the tire then its the ball joint.

I was on ROE for a long time, but ROE led me here. I have probably joined other car audio places mp3 car(if that counts) at one poing I bet, but I have used them so little I don't count it. Probably just started an account to view a thread one time and then never again. Home audio forums however...... I used to be a big supporter on those sites. I like SSA because it mixes home and car, though this site leans more to car,and I'm more into home at this point in my life, I like the core members here more than any other forum I have ever belonged to. Period.

It's about 40 bucks, but you will find tons of good factual information. http://www.amazon.com/Loudspeaker-Design-Cookbook-Vance-Dickason/dp/1882580478/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257976188&sr=8-1 On of the better books to have on hand when you want to know anything about speakers and how they work in different situations(enclosure, crossovers, etc.) You can answer most if not all from this book.

Product Review by Tejcurrent: Follow the link to the post here: http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/i...?showtopic=7337

Personally, i've never liked endcaps; at all. i think they're obnoxious to take off and put back on if you're adjusting things. any amp that has come with endcaps; they have ended up with the endcaps in my trash or floating around my house.