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Discount tire has a good description of siping Tire Siping - Discount Tire My understanding is it is great in ice and wet weather conditions, although usually proponents of it don't discuss snow. I assume that is because it isn't really great in the snow. I grew up in Buffalo NY, so I know snow, but I left years before siping became an option with tires. We used to do a lot of mudding down the old logging roads in southern NY. We had big old jacked up trucks with monster mudders and super swampers on them. These tires worked great, but in the snow they collected every bit of snow in the treads making them horrible to get around in the snow. I suspect sniping the tires today has a similar collecting affect. We found that by taking off the big mudders and sticking little cookie cutter car tires on the trucks we could get around better. We just used car M/S tires with great success... We even used to drive around and pull people out of ditches.

What's funny is the kuhmo MT tires get great snow reviews. They are siped, no wonder A friend of mine has KL71's on his Defender, only good things to say about them in snow. I can't complain with the Bighorns either. But the Bighorns are a soft compound. Can't wait to get a set of rims and get some street rubber. SOrry I meant these. No sipey sipey. Small cuts in the outer lugs, isn't that what siped means ? They are lines cut into the rubber at 90 to the base tread, and they are cut all the way across the tire tread, not just the outer lug. It creates a more flexible, easily conforming tread, and also aids in gripping during braking and acceleration.

Michelin FTMFW! I only put Harmonys on my cars. On MY GN I have to put BFGs just because only them and Kelly makes tires to fit the rear on it. But I go through tires on that car quick.

I shit you not. My youngest son came home last year with an E on his test I needed to sign. I asked the teacher what an E was and she told me that... needs more effort. I said, "Oh, so you mean he failed?" She said, "Well, yes but we aren't allowed to tell them that". So I told him that. "This isn't needing more effort, you failed. You didn't meet the minimum requirements showing that you studied for this test. You are, basically, a loser. Grab a mop and start learning how to use it boy, because you are heading straight for an employment opportunity in the custodial arts". Then I beat his butt. He hasn't brought home an E since. The same thing could be said about Bree Olsen, yes?

And exactly how loud is that supposed to be? Every install has different variables that will affect the sound quality and output of it's components differently. If not, every competitor with a BTL would have the exact same score every time. Perhaps you just expected too much... Perhaps it is just an average install and you are expecting a competitor's install type output. If the output voltage is reading correctly, the amp gains are set right, period. It is now time to focus on the installation.

Basically why I don't think I could ever own a business. All the things that make good money are things I wish Americans would stop doing. I wouldn't cut corners which would cut my profit and people don't want to pay higher prices for the better quality so I lose money. To make big money you have to sell high volume. It's easier to sell high volumes of turds than it is to sell high volumes of good American made stuff. I have a feeling Aaron may feel the same way... The only way I've seen something good quality sell a lot of is when the company pushes the product as something that its not, claims that its more than it really is, and it usually is just a mark up because of the brand name when their is a product just as good for less available elsewhere. Some people pay for quality still. But the businesses you need to be in for that are along the lines of home theater/audio (I mean like high end stuff, not Joe Schmo off the street Best Buy crap), custom home design, like cabinetmaking, etc., and performance automotive for example. When I was working at a performance shop in So Cal it was not unusual to have a $20,000 ticket. Typically we would get a GN in there that needed to be brought up to snuff. Maybe $4-5K to get the car back to normal, then we had certain grades of performance mods. For $4K we would modify the intercooler, put a solid MAF Pipe on it, put a TA49 turbo on it, chip it, and a cat back hooker system. This would net them a second easily. Add a nice 3 inch downpipe to the mix with a better wastegate for another grand. Then we would offer other upgrades for better times, like Bilsteins, variable rate rear coils, new front coils, new sway bars, and adjustable trailing arms, along with a resetting of pinion angle for more traction for another $4K... But simple packaging like that in a niche market where people have play money makes it work. But you need to target people with extra cash doing things they really want, not things they have to do. Even in the performance shop you would see it, a guy would spend $10,000 on a motor and the 1sec upgrade I listed above, but he would shit a pickle sideways if you told him he had to fix something that was broken on the car.

Sadly, IMO it is the parent's fault. When I grew up I got my ass kicked for disobedience and for not doing my chores. Bad grades? Ass kicking and grounded forever. When I did poorly in school, I got an F not an "E" for needs more effort. When we failed a grade, we were held back. We were accountable for our actions. If we didn't do what we were supposed to we got stomped on. Nowadays I see my son's friends getting brand new cell phones and dirt bikes and stupid shit just because they brought that D up to a C. Kids are coddled today by society, but they are learning this at home. I still stomp my son if he doesn't do right. I take away the things that matter most, and I don't make a big deal out of a good grade. It is expected. If he gets a bad grade though, he knows he will get his ass kicked. That is called parenting.

I, too, never understood that logic. "Yeah, I hit 167 ultra mega dee-beez and yet my system is totally geared toward sound quality". Yeah, let's see the front stage that can keep up with that... "Oh, my stock fronts do just fine off the HU"

I'm pretty fast for a really old guy.

Wait, a brown beer bottle!?!?!?!?! So much for the Dos Equis my friend

Good gracious... BUY THIS SUB!!! Way to find out some goals before spouting... Welcome to SSA!

Yeah, ask your neighbor what he owns... when he says his house, his cars, his TVs... remind him that no, the bank owns those. I have about $150 in credit card debt. I buy gas on one card, take the wife out on another, and buy a couple films on another every month. I pay them off right away. I have 5 mortgages right now, and that tiny CC debt. I owe nobody else anything. I own everything in my possession aside from my home and my rentals. People were shocked when I got sick and didn't work for almost a year (my wife got laid off previously and was going back to school, she graduates in DEC so that will rawk!!!) that we didn't lose the house (maybe 4 or 5 people that know me know we own rentals), the cars, or anything. People can't figure us out.

Fortunately I have never accidentally killed any driver. I have fried a few on purpose, just for a goof though.

I buy mine at Lowes or Home Depot by the gallon. It will be right where the paint is. Last time I bought some it was about $8 a gallon. But that was 6 or 7 years ago. I bought 5 gallons at the time, so I haven't needed to get any for quite a while.

That's not tight, that's smart. Too bad more of today's generation didn't think more like you. We wouldn't be in the crisis we are in right now. It pisses me off that my tax dollars, and my kids' tax dollars, are going to have to help pay off the bad debt of some jackass who bought more then he could afford.

Uncompressed audio as stored on an audio-CD has a bit rate of 1,411.2 kbit/s, over 4 times that of a 320 kbit/s MP3. Does this mean it is 4X as loud? Of course not. I am not sure what exactly it is you are trying to achieve with this one sided challenge of the difference in quality between an uncompressed format vs a compressed format. I would certainly prefer more accurate information as I set up my system. But really, it is up to the end user to decide what is best for them.

^ not only that, but I bet the single AQ will be more efficient then the kickers.

Appreciate the re-welcome. I read a few of impious' posts and felt I might have a technical guy to talk with. But in getting involved I see a few technical guys. I miss that discussion over at CAF. Sadly the CAF heyday is gone... But we do need to get Wiggins and Overpecker in here arguing. Their "discussions" were epic.

I haven't started mine yet, and I have a 30 year old son... my age to be withheld of course. If I am storing it all up for one massive mid-life, I pity my poor wife.

Yeah, I started posting here because I figured the 3 other SQ guys here needed a new playmate... well, and because Aaron asked nicely.

You need bass to get a girl wet........... Eventually you guys will figure out how to please them... until then I guess the bass will have to do It keeps bringing me back because nothing is sweeter then pure, accurate reproduction... Ooops! Wrong forum for that

I didn't figure many would get that, but I knew you would.

Unless he plans to wrap the wire around his vehicle a few times for shits and giggles, it's not really going to matter. Iron Core Inductor FTW!

You want a spankin midbass driver? What are you crossing these at (top end, not down low), how much power do you have on tap? What are you looking for? A punchy, snappy midbass or a deep silky midbass?

Yes, but you probably don't use it in IB ? or do you? 8 18s is still overkill, even in an IB alignment... But it is some seriously impressive overkill. I always say, you can't overdo it with subwoofer capability, and I am an SQ guy. You don't need to worry about imaging or how they will affect the stage, so I never knock it. With 8 18s he can, or I should say I would keep the volume very low on the subs. This will keep them amazingly linear, and amazingly linear in IB means amazingly transparent, open, and enveloping. Bottom line, it will sound killer.